Karen Barnaby

Vancouver chef Karen Barnaby has the scoop — and the recipes — on the latest food trends. An accomplished author, she is executive chef at the Fish House in Stanley Park.

David Baines

David Baines has been uncovering white collar crime, stock fraud in particular, for the past 23 years. He has an MBA from the University of Western Ontario and has won four National Newspaper Awards, a National Magazine Award and five Jack Webster Awards. His column appears regularly on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and on other days as events occur.

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Daphne Bramham

Daphne Bramham has been a columnist at The Vancouver Sun since 2000. She won the National Newspaper Award for column writing in June 2005. Judges said she "cuts away misconceptions and misinformation on a wide-range of issues... Her clear thinking shines like a laser in searching out logical inconsistencies."

She was named Commentator of the Year Award by the Jack Webster Foundation in October 2005 and was honoured by the non-profit group Beyond Borders in 2004 for a continuing series of columns on the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C. from the non-profit group Beyond Borders.

Bramham was one of Simon Fraser University's distinguished alumni in 2003 and outstanding alumna of the year for 2004 by Luther College in Regina.

In 2001, she was named Journalist of the Year for her series on farmed animals at the Animal Rights 2001 in Washington, D.C., the largest annual gathering of animal rights advocates. That series also received a commendation from the Ark Trust.

Born in Saskatchewan, Bramham has a bachelor of arts degree in English and German literature from the University of Regina, a bachelor of applied arts in journalism from Toronto's Ryerson University and a master's degree in liberal studies from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C.

Read Bramham's blog, Think Tank.

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Don Cayo

Don Cayo came to The Sun as editorial page editor in 2000, after working most of his career in Eastern Canada. In the fall of 2003, he made the switch to column writing.

He has worked in journalism all his adult life. At one time or another he has served as a newspaper writer and editor, a radio and television reporter and commentator, a wire service reporter, and a journalism teacher. From mid-1997 until mid-1999 he took a leave of absence to run the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, a business-funded think-tank based in Halifax, but he continued to write regular columns for eight newspapers across Canada.

Cayo has won several awards and fellowships including one National Newspaper Award and three nominations, and a B'nai Brith award for human rights reporting. In 2003 he won both the Population Institute's global award for population/environment reporting and a Canadian Association of Journalists fellowship to travel to Africa.

Read Cayo's blogs, Globalization: For Better or Worse, Taxing Issues.

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Cam Cole

Cam Cole came to The Vancouver Sun in 2005 after seven years in Toronto as the principal sports columnist of The National Post. Born in Vegreville, Alta., he began his sportswriting career at The Edmonton Journal in 1975, and has been writing a daily sports column for the last 21 years.

You can reach Cam Cole with column ideas or topics worth discussing at ccole@png.canwest.com.

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Greg Douglas

The original Canucks public relations director in 1970, Greg Douglas covered baseball and hockey for the Vancouver Sun and is currently in his 11th year contributing a weekly Saturday sports notes column in The Sun.

Harvey Enchin

Harvey Enchin has been studying Canadian economic and political issues for more than three decades, starting at the Reuters News Agency, moving to the Gazette in Montreal, the Globe and Mail in Toronto and finally The Vancouver Sun, where he served as business editor before joining the editorial board following a secondment in Winnipeg to help establish the CanWest News Service.

A stickler for statistics, he believes every decision is an economic decision, and his columns attempt to relate theory to practice - whether it be in investment, trade, taxation, or social policy - so that we make better ones.

In his spare time, Harvey reads The Economist.

Read Harvey Enchin's blog Everybody's Business. Enchin says every choice is a trade off; every decision is an economic one.

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Shelley Fralic

Shelley Fralic joined The Vancouver Sun as a reporter in 1979, just before graduating from the Langara College journalism program, and following a summer internship at the Quesnel Cariboo-Observer.

At The Sun, she has covered sports, business, religion, general news and features. In the mid-'80s, she held a number of assistant editor positions and, in 1990, was appointed deputy managing editor of the paper, a position she held until 1999, when she was named Executive Editor.

Several years ago, she returned to writing and today produces columns on a variety of subjects, including social issues, pop culture, and modern-day life.

Fralic has been a sessional instructor in the Masters program at the UBC School of Journalism, and has conducted numerous journalism lectures and workshops throughout her newspaper career.

She is currently chair of the Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, and is an industry director on the B.C. Press Council.

Read Ms. Fralic's blog, Social Studies.

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Anthony Gismondi

Anthony Gismondi was born in Hamilton, Ontario and came to British Columbia in 1972 to attend Simon Fraser University. Upon graduation his wine adventures began in earnest mostly because he didn't like beer, although he's come to appreciate that sector of the alcohol business too.

He has been writing on wine since 1983 and has been the weekly wine columnist for the Vancouver Sun since 1989. His reviews are widely read across the country and throughout the international wine community.

He is an executive editor with responsibilities for international wines at Wine Access - Canada's Essential Guide to Wine and Food, as well as a consultant to Air Canada where he assists in the selection of in-flight wines served system-wide by Canada's largest airline.

A writer, broadcaster and speaker, in 2002 he launched a comprehensive wine website www.gismondionwine.com that contains a large and growing database of wines and stories chronicling his work and adventures in the world of wine.

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