Andy Walker is one of North America’s best known technology journalists. He was the co-host of the internationally acclaimed TV show Call for Help seen in the US, Canada and Australia and is the author of the highly acclaimed book Absolute Beginners Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware and Viruses. A second edition of the book is due out in spring 2007.
Walker is a veteran technology journalist. Since graduating from Ryerson University in Toronto in 1990, his witty and helpful tech help columns have been published in hundreds of newspapers, magazines and web sites around the world. His work also appears on the extremely successful tech advice web site Cyberwalker.com. Andy has also extended his remarkable tech help skills into a video podcast called Lab Rats which he co-hosts with tech expert Sean Carruthers. The show is distributed on the Web at
http://www.labrats.tv/ and on Apple’s iTunes.
Walker, 39, lives in Toronto, where he guests on HomePage on CP24 and is a regular guest on a variety of TV shows across Canada. On the radio, he appears on The Stafford on AM 640 Toronto every weekly. Walker is also writing two new books. Where is my Jetpack? -- a look at how science fiction is becoming science fact. It’s due out in 2007. His third book, Microsoft Windows Vista Help Desk will be published by Que in April 2007.
Andy is also is the founder of the
Little Geeks Foundation, a not-for-profit project that gives Internet-connected computers to underprivileged children.
Steven Skurka is an experienced criminal defence lawyer with vast trial and jury experience, and principal at Skurka Spina Cugliari, LLP. His practice has included the defence of white collar crime and discipline matters, child abuse and sexual assault cases, homicide cases and the defence of police officers.
Steven acted as counsel to the Ontario Crown Attorneys Association at the Morin Inquiry and was lead counsel to John Paul Roby in the Maple Leaf Gardens case. Steven was trial counsel and co-counsel at the Ontario Court of Appeal in the Dee Brown racial profiling case. He also works regularly with American attorneys in cases involving cross-border consultations, and is a frequent contributor to the NACDL publication, The Champion.
Steven is a certified specialist in criminal litigation, a former vice-president and director of the Criminal Lawyers Association, and a former member of the executive of the Criminal Justice Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He is an adjunct professor in criminal procedure at Osgoode Hall Law School and a regular member of the faculty for the Ontario College of Advocacy Training. He has appeared on numerous educational panels including those on behalf of the Ontario Crown Attorneys Association, the Department of Justice and the National Judicial Institute. He has been invited to teach and participate in panels at Griffith Law School in Australia and at Harvard Law School, and is the Legal Analyst for CTV as well as Canada’s nation-wide morning news program, Canada AM.
Steven is a co-author of a book on jury selection in criminal trials and has authored a number of articles published in leading criminal law journals. He is also a co-author on the chapter on professional responsibility in criminal practice for the criminal procedure section of the Bar Admission Course.
Contact Steven at: skurka@crimlaw.org