Bruce Livesey has been a journalist for more than 25 years and has worked for newspapers, magazines, alternative weeklies, television programs and produced radio documentaries. He currently works as a television producer at the CBC current affairs program CBC News Sunday. Previously, he worked for six years at the CBC program the fifth estate as an associate producer where he worked on stories involving, among others, George W. Bush's connections to the bin Laden family, the failings of the Patriot missile, Canada's most powerful mobsters, and an examination of the rise of Islamist terrorism in Europe as part of a co-production with the PBS program Frontline and the New York Times. He has written for over 30 newspapers and magazines, including the Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, The Walrus, Canadian Lawyer, Report on Business Magazine and Maisonneuve. He has also produced television stories for Al-Jazeera English and Al Gore's network, Current TV. He has won a Canadian Association of Journalism (CAJ) award, been a co-winner of a Dupont award, the most prestigious US television award, been nominated for a Gemini and two National Magazine Awards and won three Kenneth R. Wilson awards. He has done exposés of slum landlords, corrupt cops, the crimes of the tobacco industry, business scams and organized crime. He resides in Toronto.