SEAMUS O'REGAN (Host)

Seamus O'Regan is the co-host of CTV's Canada AM, Canada's #1 national morning show. He is from St. John's, Newfoundland, and was raised in Goose Bay, Labrador.

In addition to a an extensive journalistic career, he has worked as an assistant to Environment Minister Jean Charest in Ottawa and to Justice Minister Edward Roberts in St. John's, and was policy advisor and speechwriter to the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Brian Tobin.

Seamus serves on the Boards of The Rooms – which houses the Provincial Art Gallery, Museum, and Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador – as well as Katimavik – Canada’s leading youth service-learning program – and The Company Theatre group in Toronto. He is an Honourary Advisor to Shallaway -- Newfoundland and Labrador Youth in Chorus – and St. Francis Xavier University’s Coady International Institute. He is also an ambassador for “Spread the Net”, combating malaria in Africa.

For more on Seamus, visit CTV.CA

MEASHA BRUEGGERGOSMAN

Noted by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a singer of rare gifts and artistic intensity” and by the Miami Herald for possessing “a superb voice capable of just about everything,” Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman has emerged as one of the most magnificent performers and vibrant personalities of the day.  She is critically acclaimed by the international press as much for her innate musicianship and voluptuous voice as for a sovereign stage presence far beyond her years.  Her extraordinary versatility, intuitive musicality, and radiant star quality have yielded an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon.  Her first recording on the label, Surprise, was released in 2007 and garnered a Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year.
For more on Measha, visit www.measha.com

CHARLES PACHTER

One of Canada's leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. He was born in Toronto and holds degrees from the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He holds an honorary doctorate from Brock University, is a member of the Order of Canada, and a Chevalier of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His works hang in public and private collections around the world.

His images of the queen, moose, and maple leaf flag are pop icons of Canadian art. His paintings hang in the Toronto Stock Exchange and in the Canadian Embassy in Washington. His murals of Hockey Knights in Canada highlight a Toronto subway station. Retrospective Pachter exhibitions have toured France, Germany, and Japan. McClelland & Stewart publications include an illustrated biography on Pachter and his work, and The Journals of Susanna Moodie, his celebrated collaboration with poet Margaret Atwood.
www.cpachter.com

WENDY CREWSON
Actress

SUSAN MCARTHUR

Investment Banker and Board Member, Luminato

JEFF MELANSON

Jeff Melanson was appointed Executive Director of Canada’s National Ballet School in November 2006. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, where he studied opera, Russian art song and choral conducting. Jeff has also pursued graduate vocal studies at the Oberlin Conservatory and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. He also holds an MBA in Finance, Marketing and Strategy from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.
From 1998 to 2000, Jeff was the Director of Development for Opera Ontario. In March 2000, he was appointed Assistant Dean of the Community School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and at the end of 2001, he was promoted to Dean. In his role as Dean of RCM’s Community School, Jeff was instrumental in building the program into the largest community arts school in North America. He expanded the academic content of the program to include the World Music Centre, DJ technique classes, rock/pop programming, jazz programming and teacher training. He launched a community program to bring music-making to the lives of over 350 children, youth and seniors from under-serviced areas, and extended the school’s reach into China.
Jeff is a past-Chapter Chair with the National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts and has been an invited speaker on the role of the arts in community development at numerous United Nations and UNESCO events. Jeff is a recipient of the Peter F. Drucker Fellowship for excellence in non-profit management and is a frequent guest lecturer on non-profit management.

RUSSELL SMITH

Russell Smith is the author of six works of fiction. A well-known journalist and cultural commentator, he writes the weekly "Virtual Culture" column, on issues of representation, in the national Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.