Canada's much loved author/broadcaster Peter Gzowski is wearing many hats these days.  He has just been named Chancellor of Trent University, and will be installed on June 4th for a three-year term.  Trent University, in Peterborough, is a perfect match for Peter - especially now as he has begun writing a book about the North.  This year Peter has been acting as the first Writer-in-Residence North of 60 - which means he has spent a lot of time in the Arctic - writing and talking to people and writing some more. 

In April, Gzowski in Conversation returned on both CBC Television and CBC Newsworld. The series of half-hour and hour-long programs features Peter with some of the most interesting Canadian personalities - Wayne Gretzky, Donald Sutherland, Natalie McMaster and more. 

Some of the Best Minds of Our Time, which is heard on CBC Radio One on Sunday's throughout the summer months is a chance for Peter to engage in conversation with scientists, philosophers, poets, economists and authors and for listeners to experience the fascinating results. 

Last fall, Peter completed his second term as a judge for the prestigious Giller Prize - the grandest of all Canadian literary awards.  Peter's column, Gzowski's Canada, can be read each month in Canadian Living Magazine and he has just published his second volume of collected columns.  The book, published by McClelland & Stewart, is called, Friends, Moments, Countryside. 

Peter hosted Morningside - Canada's favourite national radio program - for 15 years  (the program ended in May 1997).  He has seven ACTRA Awards, 12 honourary degrees, has published nine books, is a member of the Canadian News Hall of Fame, was awarded a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting and has been presented with the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award.  In 1997, in New York, he was presented with a Peabody for his Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting - the only Canadian ever to have been given the award for work as an individual.  Peter is also a Companion of the Order of Canada.