Bishop's Company 2010
Bishop's Company Speaker for 2010
Bishop Bird is pleased that the guest speaker for the Bishop's Company Annual Dinner on Monday, October 4th was Mr. Linden MacIntyre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won eight Gemini Awards for broadcast journalism, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence. He is the winner of two national non-fiction prizes for his most recent book, a boyhood memoir called Causeway: A Passage from Innocence and received the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2009 for his second novel, The Bishop's Man.
He is also the co-host of the CBC's weekly newsmagazine the fifth estate and is a frequent guest host of The Current on CBC Radio One. The Bishop is delighted to have such a distinguished journalist and author as the speaker for our dinner this year.