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Prem Gill is Chief Executive Officer of Creative BC. The organization is designated by the Province of British Columbia to focus on uniting, sustaining and growing British Columbia’s dynamic and diverse creative sector including motion picture, music and sound recording, interactive and digital media, and magazine and book publishing.

Prem has been named one of Canada’s 100 most powerful women, Vancouver Magazine’s “Power 50” and received the Community Catalyst award from the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. She brings more than 20 years of experience from the digital media and entertainment industries to her current role as CEO, where she is responsible for delivering a wide range of programs and services that will expand B.C.’s creative economy to reach its economic, social and creative potential both at home and globally.

Before Creative BC, Prem spent eight years with TELUS, most recently in the role of Director of Production & Original Programming. Her commitment to the advancement of B.C.’s creative economy can be seen through her achievements there, including the successful development and launch of the STORYHIVE program and TELUS Optik TV community channel.

For many years, Prem has championed Canadian creativity as a representative and spokesperson to media, industry and government at all levels. Previous roles and responsibilities have included government and regulatory affairs, independent media consultation, cross-platform marketing, communications, research, public affairs and multicultural programming.

Prem currently sits on the Board of Directors of The Bell Fund, a not-for-profit organization supporting Canadian Media content makers and on the Board of Directors for BC Tech Association, representing B.C.’s tech sector.

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Frederick Buckman

Dr. Fred Buckman’s career spans five decades and a long list of executive positions and accomplishments. Dr. Buckman’s past positions include the following: President of Power Group of The Shaw Group Inc., and during his tenure he oversaw Shaw’s premier capabilities in the fossil and nuclear power industry; Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., where he was responsible for the utility sector; in 1999, he founded and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Trans-Elect Development Company Inc., which became the first independent transmission company in North America.

He continues to serve as Chairman; President and Chief Executive Officer of Powerlink Transmission Company. He was Chief Executive Officer and President of PacifiCorp from 1994 to 1998, where he transformed the company from a regional utility to a significant national and international energy company that was sold to MidAmerican Energy in 2005 for US $5.2 billion. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Consumers Power Company (now known as Consumers Energy), the utility subsidiary of CMS Energy, from 1988 to 1994.

Dr. Buckman continues to hold several directorships of leading energy companies, including: General Fusion Inc. (Chairman); Smart Wires, a transmission technology company; and Solomon corporation. He is also a member of the StanCorp Financial Group Board.

Across the Decades – 1970 – 2020

If journalism is the first draft of history, then High Country News has been busily assembling the chapters of the comprehensive tome that will shape how we view the last 50 years of life in the Western United States.

And what a half-century it has been. From the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast, from the desert Southwest to the wilds of Alaska, HCN’s writers and editors have chronicled the ever-changing interactions between the human and non-human environment, as ever more people have flooded into the region, putting pressure on its stunning geography as never before. With dogged reporting and fresh perspectives, the nonprofit publication has shed light on landscapes and communities largely overlooked by other media outlets, driving conversation and prodding progress.

From its inception in 1970 as a rare environmental voice in the region, to its increasingly nuanced coverage of the social, political and economic dynamics of the country’s most rapidly growing and diverse population, High Country News has, story by story, unveiled the real West. It has illuminated a place of not only beauty, but of contradictions and conflicts that test our understanding of this country and the world.

What follows are some of the highlights from each of HCN’s five decades of work, and a look at what may lie ahead.

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    THE BIRTH OF A WESTERN INSTITUTION

    In 1969, Tom Bell, a fifth-generation Wyoming rancher, wildlife biologist and veteran of World War II, bought Camping News Weekly, a struggling newspaper in Lander, W

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