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Jeffrey Carl Simpson (born
1949 in
New York City, New York), is an influential Canadian journalist. For the past 23 years he's been
The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist. He has won all three of
Canada's leading literary prizes — the
Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the
National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award
(External Link
) for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award
(External Link) for excellence in public policy journalism. In January,
2000, he became an Officer of the
Order of Canada.
Biography
Simpson was born in
New York and moved to Canada when he was 10 years old, when he studied at the
University of Toronto Schools. He graduated from
Queen's University in 1971 in History and Political Science. While at Queen's he wrote for the student newspaper
The Queen's Journal, and worked for campus radio station
CFRC. He won the University's Tricolour Award in his graduating year. He then went on to the
London School of Economics. In
1972–
1973, he worked as a Parliamentary Intern in Ottawa where he worked for
Ed Broadbent. A year later, he joined
The Globe and Mail newspaper.
Career
His ongoing career with the Globe began at City Hall in
Toronto and with coverage of
Quebec politics. In
1977, he became a member of the paper's
Ottawa bureau, and eighteen months later he was named
The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau chief. From
1981–
1983, Simpson served as the
The Globe and Mail's European correspondent based in
London. Since January,
1984 he has written a critically-acclaimed daily column on national affairs.
He has written numerous magazine articles for such publications as
Saturday Night,
Report on Business Magazine, the
Journal of Canadian Studies and
Queen's Quarterly. He has spoken at dozens of major conferences in Canada and internationally on a variety of domestic and international issues.
Mr. Simpson is a frequent and enthusiastic participant in regular political debate on radio or television, in French and in English. He has been a guest lecturer at such universities as
Oxford,
Edinburgh,
Harvard,
Princeton,
Brigham Young,
Johns Hopkins,
Maine,
California plus more than a dozen universities in
Canada.
In
1993–
1994, Simpson was on leave from his column as a John S. Knight fellow at
Stanford University in
Palo Alto, California. He has been a Skelton-Clark fellow and Brockington Visitor at Queen's University. He has also been a John V. Clyne fellow at the
University of British Columbia, a distinguished visitor at the
University of Alberta and a member of the
Georgetown University Leadership Seminar. He has been awarded honorary doctorates of laws from the University of British Columbia and the
University of Western Ontario.
Simpson has been a member of the board of trustees at Queen's University; the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia; the advisory board of the
Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta; the editorial board of
The Queen's Quarterly, and the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto. He has been vice-chairman of the City of
Ottawa Library Board.
In
2006, Simpson was awarded the
Charles Lynch Award in recognition of his outstanding coverage of national issues.
Simpson is also an outspoken critic of the
monarchy of Canada and has written in favour of
republicanism in his column
Books authored
Simpson has authored seven books:
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