Manitoba rap and hip-hop artist Wab Kinew, who would later become the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province, released his debut CD on this date in 2009. Live by the Drum would go on to win he Aboriginal People’s Choice Award for Best Rap-Hip-Hop CD of the year. You can listen to some of the songs from Live by the Drum at this link: https://www.last.fm/music/Wab+Kinew/Live+By+The+Drum/Live+By+The+Drum
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.