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  CBC News: Sunday - Past Programs
Solomon was also the host of a PBS co-production called Masters of Technology.
Solomon is the co-founder of Shift, an international award-winning magazine about technology and culture.
Born in Toronto, Solomon graduated from McGill University with a joint B.A. in English literature and religious studies.
www.cbc.ca /sunday/evan.html   (339 words)

  
 cbc.ca
Solomon has worked as a journalist and writer for publications throughout North America and Asia, including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Toronto Life, The Toronto Star and The South China Morning Post.
Born in Toronto, Solomon graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in English literature and religious studies.
Solomon is on the board of directors of PEN Canada (Membership Chair), the Toronto Daily Bread Food Bank's Feedback Festival committee and McGill University's Advisory Board for the Arts Department.
www.cbc.ca /hottype/host/index.html   (404 words)

  
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Solomon speaks regularly around the country on issues of culture, media and technology.
Solomon has worked as a writer in Asia for papers such as the South China Morning Post and has written for magazines and newspapers across Canada and in the United States.
Solomon's first novel "Crossing the Distance" was published by McClelland & Stewart in April 1999.
www.newsworld.cbc.ca /programs/sites/hottype_bio.html   (269 words)

  
  Bambooweb: Evan Solomon
Evan Solomon (born 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, magazine publisher and television host.
Solomon graduated from McGill University in English literature and religious studies.
Solomon left the magazine in 1999 to promote his first novel, Crossing the Distance.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/E/v/Evan_Solomon.html   (111 words)

  
 In Conversation: Evan Solomon
Solomon's extensive background in religion was a catalyst for the novel.
Solomon, who attended Hebrew school for his elementary years, has had a long term fascination with religion, pursuing a joint Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Religious Studies and a Masters in Religious Studies.
Evan Solomon: A classical love story is always a boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_literature/102090   (540 words)

  
 FFWD Weekly: May 13th, 1999
Solomon has won what he calls the novel writing lottery – his prize is a published manuscript.
Solomon uses the betrayal theme to ask a secondary question of the media (which he is still a part of) that make up the backdrop of the novel– viewers' interest versus exploitation.
Solomon is an author pedaling his first book, but he loves to talk about the media.
www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/1999/0513/book1.html   (528 words)

  
 ITANS - Calendar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As provocative in print as he is on the air, Evan Solomon spends his professional life exploring the world of innovation, advances in technology, changing business paradigms, and creative approaches to managing and solving the complex challenges of sustainability in the 21st century.
Evan was the co-founder, and for eight years the editor-in-chief, of Shift magazine, an award-winning international magazine about technology and culture.
Evan's insightful views dispel many of the myths and hype surrounding not only surround the digital world but human progress in general - presenting a unique, realistic picture of where things now stand, and where they may be headed.
www.itans.ns.ca /default.asp?mn=1.46&f=cd&eid=142   (339 words)

  
 Evan Solomon: CBC Television Broadcaster, Journalist & Author, keynote speaker
Two time Gemini award winning writer and broadcaster Evan Solomon spends his professional life exploring the world of innovation, advances in technology, changing business paradigms, and creative approaches to managing and solving the complex challenges of sustainability in the 21st century.
Evan was the co-founder, and for eight years the editor-in-chief, of Shift magazine, an award-winning international magazine about technology and culture.
Evan’s insightful views dispel many of the myths and hype not only surrounding the digital world but human progress in general — presenting a unique, realistic picture of where things now stand, and where they may be headed.
www.speakers.ca /solomon_evan.aspx   (516 words)

  
 eG Features - Evan Solomon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Solomon aptly describes the predicament of a young writer.
Solomon is incredibly refreshing to talk to because he understands.
Solomon continues to surprise when he adds that he was on the McGill rowing team, and both wrote and performed plays on campus.
www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/features/stories/solomon/index.html   (1334 words)

  
 Evan Solomon - Definition, explanation
Evan Solomon (born 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, magazine publisher and television host.
Solomon graduated from McGill University in English literature and religious studies.
Solomon left the magazine in 1999 to promote his first novel, Crossing the Distance.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ev/evan_solomon.php   (126 words)

  
 Evan Solomon: Hostility to the rational voice & coddling the nutbats is "balance, not bias." - cbcwatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Evan Solomon: Hostility to the rational voice & coddling the nutbats is "balance, not bias." - cbcwatch
Re: Evan And The Cranks, editorial, Sept. 12.
Reading Evan Solomon's high-handed defence of the CBC's "Twilight Zone" examination of conspiracy theories on the eve of the 5-year anniversary of one of the most cowardly terrorist attacks in history is laughable.
www.cbcwatch.ca /?q=node/view/2040/8822   (503 words)

  
 BookLust: TRANSITory Reading
Solomon in the past (he can come across as so arrogant on TV), but I gotta say that he was very warm and friendly and personable (and rather good-looking, I must say), as I hid behind my book pretending to read a story by Mr.
Evan told his friend that one could try to write 'what sells' but in the long run it was best to write about what you are interested in, what you are passionate about, because the writing will of course be authentic and true, and in the end, most editors will pick up on that.
Solomon also used a similar example with the author Martin Amis, but I couldn't quite hear the example used, because remember I was evesdropping on a conversation on the subway.
storms.typepad.com /booklust/transitory_reading   (1253 words)

  
 CBC Radio Interview #2 with J.K. Rowling, July 2000
In an exclusive interview, Evan Solomon, the host of CBC Newsworld's Hot Type, recently talked to Joanne Kathleen Rowling about everything from the origins of Harry Potter to her life as a welfare mother to her views about censorship and God.
Solomon spoke to Rowling during a cross-Britain book tour aboard a vintage train, the Hogwarts Express, which was nicknamed after the train in her books.
Evan Solomon: The legend is that [your first book] came to you all at once.
www.angelfire.com /mi3/cookarama/cbcint2.html   (1120 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Profile: Evan Solomon
Evan Solomon graduated from Crescent School in 1987 and went on to study at McGill University where he completed a joint B.A. in English Literature and Religious Studies and then earned his Masters degree in Religious Studies.
Evan Solomon is a journalist and novelist and is the host of the CBC Newsworld`s Hot Type and co-host of CBC News: Sunday.
Solomon is on the leading edge when it comes to the forces that will shape the future of our students and the world in which we live.
www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=326587   (1713 words)

  
 Presenter Evan Solomon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Evan Solomon graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Honors Program at Drexel University and holds degrees in Finance as well as Information Technology.
Evan is the founder of EFS Networks Inc., a technology consulting firm based in Philadelphia, PA. Recently certified under the Federal E-Rate program, EFS is now an authorized entity to provide federally subsidized technology consulting in academic institutions.
Evan has utilized his industry expertise to help Campus Outreach Services address the ever-changing threats present for children using the internet and other technologies.
www.campusoutreachservices.com /PresenterEvanSolomon.html   (231 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Miss Zeltser was a student of Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard, and in 1995 was accepted at the Moscow Conservatory, where she recently graduated as the youngest student ever to receive a master’s degree at that prestigious institution.
Pianist Evan Solomon, a native of Ohio, began his piano studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Solomon has performed in chamber music and vocal recitals throughout the United States as well as France, Germany, Japan and Korea.
www.centenary.edu /news/1999/October/1013even.html   (416 words)

  
 Interview | Evan Solomon
Evan Solomon understands life in the fast lane better than most.
Solomon isn't, however, a television journalist in the strictest sense, even though the most visible part of his career has been spent in front of the camera.
Evan Solomon: I think of myself as a writer, but in the broadest sense of the term.
www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/solomon.html   (3025 words)

  
 Crescent School
Evan Solomon graduated from Crescent School in 1987 and went on to study at McGill University where he completed a joint B.A. in English Literature and Religious Studies and then earned his Masters degree in Religious Studies.
Evan was the Editor-in-Chief of Shift and President of the company for 8 years as it expanded into television and the Internet.
Evan also hosted several TV shows including CBC News: Sunday, a weekly current affair news magazine programme covering politics, culture and religion; CBC Newsworld’s provocative show on print culture Hot Type and Gemini award-winning CBC show Futureworld, exploring the latest developments in technology and innovation.
www.crescentschool.org /alumni_solomon.asp   (247 words)

  
 Evan Almighty
Synopsis: Steve Carell, reprising his role as the polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter of Bruce Almighty, is the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission in the hilarious new comedy Evan Almighty.
Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia.
Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...
www.insightcinema.org /films_evanalmighty.html   (94 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Crossing the Distance: Books: Evan Solomon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Solomon's novel is a complex wiring of harrowing plot, disturbing and cynical commentary on the self-centred world of North American media, and a compelling, if not entirely successful, exploration of the soul's journey through the morally uncompassed landscape of human affairs at the end of the twentieth century.
Solomon's novel falls short as a literary achievement.
It is with his description of Tasso's final moments, as the newly fired librarian is consumed in an eerie conflagration, that Solomon crosses the distance as a novelist and gives us a sample of new fiction worthy of careful attention.
www.amazon.ca /Crossing-Distance-Evan-Solomon/dp/0771081537   (426 words)

  
 Featured Artist at Christ Church Riverdale.
Evan Solomon has appeared in chamber music and vocal recitals throughout the United States as well as France, Germany, Japan, Korea, China and Zimbabwe.
Solomon recently served as official accompanist for the 2000 Hannover International Violin Competition in Germany.
Evan Solomon began his piano studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
www.christchurchriverdale.org /featured_artist.htm   (430 words)

  
 the NODE: networking march 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It's a little before noon on February 25th, and Evan Solomon is about to give a lecture -- but he has some serious competition from the weather.
Inside the auditorium at George Brown College's Casa Loma campus in Toronto, a sparse audience of college profs and members of the public is trickling in; outside, it's ten degrees and dazzlingly sunny -- positively balmy for February in Ontario.
Not yet out of his twenties, Solomon is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Shift magazine, an extremely successful print and electronic publication on media, entertainment and technology.
www.thenode.org /networking/march1998/feature1.html   (947 words)

  
 Interview with reporter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Evan Solomon: They were copying your hard drive.
Evan Solomon: Is it harder to deal with it now than it was then?
Evan Solomon: Do you ever think that you’ve been set up, that the leak you got about what happened to Maher Arar was a set-up in some way, and you published all this stuff and that maybe the RCMP or CSIS was using it to flesh out their own link?
www.bcrevolution.ca /interview_with_reporter.htm   (1734 words)

  
 BOOKS-Evan-Solomon,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
TORONTO (CP) - Evan Solomon, known to most Canadians as the host of CBC News: Sunday wears a number of different hats, including - now - children's author.
The character and the story about an adventure on a pirate ship came to him as he was going to bed one night, and it sent him hurrying upstairs to his third-floor office to write it down.
Again, not surprising that Solomon would go this route, after doing some writing on the side for kids television shows in the past, in particular the program Henry's World.
www.recorder.ca /cp/Entertainment/050509/e050913A.html   (598 words)

  
 CBS
Evan Solomon's interview with J.K. Rowling, author of the super-popular Harry Potter series, aired on CBC on Thursday, July 13th.
That's a very natural instinct… My reaction to a scary book or a scary film with my daughter would be to watch it with her and discuss it with her, to be with her as she experienced it.
Solomon: And yet here we are on the train and at every stop there are hundreds of kids and parents...
members.tripod.com /chillhp/CBS.htm   (1249 words)

  
 Keynote Speakers
Evan Solomon is co-founder and executive editor of Shift Magazine, an award winning national magazine about media, entertainment and technology.
Evan is on the leading edge of the subjects which will shape our future.
His insightful views dispel many of the myths and hype surrounding the digital world, and present a unique, realistic picture of where things now stand, where they may be headed, and how to best understand the implications these rapid changes are bringing.
www.dotcomyourevent.com /Sun/speakers.html   (139 words)

  
 ZNet |Book | Interviewing Chomsky
EVAN SOLOMON: You argue in the book that the fundamental principal that this administration and past administrations have functioned under is that hegemony is more important than survival.
I mean you really have to admire the discipline of educated people who are able to watch all of this and not burst out in laughter, pretend to take it seriously.
EVAN SOLOMON: People sometimes read your stuff and we've talked over the years and they say Chomsky's an Anti-American.
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=4900   (2882 words)

  
 Hegemnoy or Survival, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Evan Solomon
EVAN SOLOMON: You argue in the book that the fundamental principal that this administration and past administrations have functioned under is that hegemony is more important than survival.
I mean you really have to admire the discipline of educated people who are able to watch all of this and not burst out in laughter, pretend to take it seriously.
EVAN SOLOMON: People sometimes read your stuff and we've talked over the years and they say Chomsky's an Anti-American.
www.chomsky.info /interviews/20031209.htm   (2827 words)

  
 Evan Soloman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The news used to be about facts; now it's all about perspective, according to Evan Solomon, CBC TV Sunday morning host.
Solomon talked at length about the Ingenuity Project, which he has been involved in for a few years.
Finally, Solomon challenged the audience of editors by asking if they generate content that inspire their readers and shows them that they can make a difference.
www.canadianeditors.com /EvanSoloman.htm   (401 words)

  
 Racial Profiling, Craig Bromell, Media
Solomon gasped in horror at the thought that the number one priority of Toronto police is not political correctness.
While being PC seemed of high importance to Solomon as far as the police are concerned, it didn’t seem to be that important in another segment of the program.
Solomon was seen interviewing journalist Christopher Hitchens, a previous media darling of the left.
www.canadafreepress.com /2002/media112502.htm   (602 words)

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