Anne Marie Aikins - Principal, AMA Communications; Associate with Curious Public; Media Pundit 

...is the media strategist and creative, dedicated leader you want during the good times and the really really bad times. With more than three decades of experience in communications and journalism, Anne Marie delivers award-winning public relations, media relations, issue management, crisis communications, and digital content. Her clients include a variety of leaders and industries, public and social services, and independent business. She has a great sense of humour with contagious energy and is an intuitive visionary. AMA is open to discussing how she can assist with your communication needs whether long-term planning or urgent media and crisis communications. She is also a popular media pundit often heard on talk radio and news, and is a frequent contributor to opinion pages.

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Reta Ismail fled the war-torn country in 1990. Reta's family spent three years in Greece as refugees before being sponsored to come to Canada. In high school, Reta had a co-op placement at Mohawk College's radio station doing on-the-hour news updates and co-hosting a radio show. After her placement, she attended and graduated from Mohawk College's Broadcast Journalism and Communications program. Shortly after graduation, she was hired as a weekend anchor/reporter for Newstalk 610 CKTB in St. Catharines, Ont. During this time, Reta volunteered as a videographer with Rogers Television to gain on-camera experience. Wanting to further her career and get into a major market, she applied and was hired to work as an assignment editor for CityNews in Toronto where she spent eight years as a Media Library archivist and as an assignment editor monitoring breaking news. In January of 2015, she joined CTV London’s news team as a weather anchor and videographer. 

As a journalist, To Hayes has enjoyed a career of more than 35 years as an anchor, reporter and award winning storyteller in Toronto with CTV News, CityNews and Global News. My stories have included everyone from Royalty and Prime Ministers to Business Leaders and Rockstars.  A message and a captivating character are the ingredients of any great story - crafting the story properly makes it memorable and timeless.  As the winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award my work has taken me through Canada, the US, the UK and India.

Warren Weeks has worked with a long list of satisfied clients throughout Canada and the United States in both the private and public sectors, including banks, insurance companies, utilities, not-for-profits, health care organizations, social advocacy groups, retailers, municipalities, conservation organizations, global consulting firms, information technology companies, grocery retailers, educational institutions, authors and more.

Warren is the principal of Eleven Strategic Communications, Inc., a full-service corporate communications firm he founded in 2003.

Warren holds a Masters of Arts degree in Journalism (1993) from the University of Western Ontario.

Contact Warren at 416-238-6361 or send him a confidential email at warren (at) weeksmedia.ca.