This week we talk to Ted Barris. Ted is an award-winning historian with 22 books to his credit. His journalism has appeared regularly in the national press, as well as magazines as diverse as Air Force, esprit de corps and Zoomer. He has also worked as host/contributor for most CBC Radio network programs, PBS in the U.S. and on TV Ontario. And after 18 years teaching, he recently retired as a full-time professor of journalism at Toronto’s Centennial College. He is the author of 22 bestselling, non-fiction books, including many on wartime Canada. Ted’s 20th book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory was published in the fall of 2022 and immediately landed on the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers lists. Also in 2022, Ted was awarded the Platinum Jubilee Award celebrating the Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne. In October of last year, Ted went to Rideau Hall in Ottawa to be appointed Member of the Order of Canada.