G Adventures founder joins Canada Reads

G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip will play a role in selecting a Canadian book that will shape the nation as part of this year’s Canada Reads, CBC’s annual battle of the books series.

Poon Tip will be one of five celebrity panellists taking part in the annual CBC series that determines Canada’s must-read title for 2016 during four, hour-long, live debates.

The series, now in its 15th year, will be hosted by author Wab Kinew, and will broadcast live in front of audiences in Toronto from March 21–24, 2016, at CBC Studios. Each day of the competition one book will be eliminated by the panellists until a winner is chosen

Poon Tip will be defending the book Birdie by Tracey Lindberg. Joining Poon Tip on the panel is actor and wrestler Adam “Edge” Copeland, Olympian and humanitarian Clara Hughes, social entrepreneur Farah Mohamed and actor and writer Vinay Virmani, all of whom will be defending other Canadian works.

Canada Reads will be broadcast each day on CBC Radio One at 11 a.m./1:30 p.m. NT (repeating 8 p.m./8:30 p.m. NT), on CBC-TV at 4 p.m. /4:30 p.m. NT and live streamed online at CBCbooks.ca at 10 a.m. ET.