Speaker Schedule

Billionaire Murders

Kevin Donovan has been investigating the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman since three weeks after their bodies were found. He will take the audience through the last day of their lives, and give them a window into the clues he has found and the evidence he is still looking for. You'll learn about the police missteps, what they are looking for now, and along the way the audience will get insight into who the Shermans were, and why someone may have wanted them dead. 

Kevin Donovan is the Toronto Star's Chief Investigative Reporter. His focus is on journalism that exposes wrongdoing and effects change. Over almost four decades he has reported on the activities of charities, government, police, business among other institutions. Kevin also reported from the battlefields in the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan following 9/11. He has won three National Newspaper Awards, two Governor General's Michener Awards, the Canadian Journalism Foundation award and three Canadian Association of Journalists Awards. As the Star's editor of investigations for many years, Donovan led many award-winning projects for the paper. He is the author of several books, including the Billionaire Murders; Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation;  and the "Dead Times" (a fiction novel).  You can listen to his Suspicion podcast series wherever you listen to podcasts.

 Journey Through the Northwest Passage

Bruce Rhodes, a member of Richmond Hill Probus, will share his experience in September 2024 traveling by expedition ship through Canada’s Northwest Passage and along the west coast of Greenland, with a focus on the troubling history of the community of Grise Fiord in northern Nunavut.

Bruce began his travel to the far north in October 2015 when he volunteered for a candidate running in the federal election in Yukon. In 2018 Bruce visited the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, halfway between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, his first of five journeys above the Arctic Circle. Since then Bruce has hiked on the west cost of Greenland as well as on Baffin Island and Devon Island in Nunavut (2022), visited Yellowknife and the north shore of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories (April 2023), circumnavigated Iceland by ship (July 2023), and hiked and visited Inuit communities, both inhabited and ghost towns(!) in northern Labrador and southeastern Nunavut (July 2024).

Most recently, Bruce took part in a hiking expedition in eastern and southern Greenland (July 2025).