One of my favourite people from the world of Canadian politics and journalism is celebrating his birthday today. The Hon. Evan Solomon, who has long supported my work in the field of political history, is turning 58. After many years of service as one of Canada’s leading broadcast journalists, Solomon took the and entered politics last year, winning a Toronto seat in the House of Commons. He was then named to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet. In our increasing complex era where the Internet reigns supreme – and whose full impacts on society are hardly known in full of yet – Solomon has been tasked by Carney with developing Canada’s strategies in the brave new world of AI. Happy birthday from Art’s History Minister Solomon.
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.