Stevie Cameron is one of Canada’s foremost investigative journalists and winner of numerous awards for political writing. Her 1994 book, On The Take, was a stunning exposé of greed, power and corruption within the Mulroney government that created a political and media stir when it was published. On The Take topped the Canadian bestseller lists for two consecutive years and became one of the most successful works of political journalism ever published in Canada. She followed up in 1998 with another national bestseller, Blue Trust: The Author, The Lawyer, His Wife and Her Money, which documents the rise and downfall of a wealthy Montreal tax lawyer.

Stevie had been covering the activities of Frank Moores' controversial lobbying activities in Ottawa since the Progressive Conservatives won the 1984 federal election. In 1988 she began linking Moores' interests to Karlheinz Schreiber's. In 1989, working for the Globe and Mail, she was the first reporter to identify Schreiber as a key player in a Thyssen tank plant proposed for Nova Scotia and to outline his work for the late Bavarian premier, Franz Josef Strauss in Alberta. In 1994, in On the Take, she described Moores' and Schreiber's links to three major deals with the federal government - the Airbus contract with Air Canada, the Thyssen plant and a sale of Messerschmitt Bolkow Blohm helicopters to the
Canadian Coast Guard. Since then, she has followed Schreiber's career closely, reporting on his activities for both Maclean's magazine and the Globe and Mail.

Stevie is currently a member of the Globe and Mail's investigative team, a contributing editor for Maclean’s, and a monthly columnist for Elm Street, of which she was Founding Editor. Over her career she has been a host of CBC Television’s the fifth estate, and a contributor to many national magazines and newspapers including The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, Southam News Service, Saturday Night, Financial Post, Chatelaine, Canadian Living and Homemakers.

Stevie Cameron lives in Toronto.

stevie@thelastamigo.com

Harvey Cashore has worked for ten years at the CBC’s leading documentary program the fifth estate and was named a producer for the program in 1996. In that time he has worked on numerous stories that have uncovered government scandal, international fraud, and justice-related issues that have made headlines across the country.

Three years ago, the fifth estate’s re-examination of evidence surrounding the wrongful conviction of Clayton Johnson led to Johnson’s release from prison. After the broadcast of "Rush for the Rush" in 1998, a documentary about Health Canada plans to allow caffeine in soft drinks aimed at children, the government reversed its position.

Cashore’s in-depth work on the Airbus scandal began in 1994 when the CBC learned of secret commissions paid to a Liechtenstein company after Air Canada made its decision to purchase Airbus A320 jets. Since then, Cashore has produced three Airbus-related stories, the last of which was entitled "The Mysterious Dealmaker" which, for the first time, revealed the secret money trail deep inside Karlheinz Schreiber’s Zurich bank accounts. The media pounced on this revelatory information, demanding front- page headlines in newspapers across the country.

Harvey Cashore is the recipient of the prestigious Best Television Documentary award from the Canadian Association of Journalists and has twice been nominated for a Gemini Award. He is a frequent lecturer and teaches a seminar on investigative reporting for CBC’s Training Department.

Harvey Cashore lives in Toronto.

harvey@thelastamigo.com