John Ibbitson

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John Ibbitson
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada [1]
Alma mater University of Toronto (B.A.)
University of Western Ontario (M.A.)
GenreFiction, non-fiction
Subject Canadian politics, Canadian history
Notable works1812
Promised Land
Loyal No More
The Polite Revolution
Open & Shut
The Big Shift (co-author)
Stephen Harper
Notable awards Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature,
Trillium Book Award,
City of Toronto Book Award,
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

John Ibbitson (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist. Since 1999, he has been a political writer and columnist for The Globe and Mail . [2]

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Career

Ibbitson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 with a B.A. in English. [1] After university, he pursued a career as a playwright, his most notable play being Mayonnaise, [1] which debuted in December 1980 at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. The play went on to national production and was adapted to a TV broadcast in 1983. [1] In the mid-1980s, Ibbitson switched over to writing young adult fiction, including the science fiction novel Starcrosser (1990). He also wrote two full-length novels, 1812: Jeremy's War and The Night Hazel Came to Town. The Landing followed in 2008 - a winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. Apart from the latter Ibbitson has been nominated for several awards for other works, including a Governor General's Award nomination for 1812. [1] Hazel received a nomination for the Trillium Book Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. His journalism has also been nominated for a National Newspaper Award.

Ibbitson entered the University of Western Ontario in 1987. Upon graduating with an M.A. in journalism one year later, he joined the Ottawa Citizen , where he worked as a city reporter and columnist. He covered Ontario politics from 1995 to 2001, working for the Ottawa Citizen, Southam News, the National Post and The Globe and Mail. In August 2001, Ibbitson accepted the post of Washington bureau chief at The Globe and Mail, [1] returning to Canada one year later to take up the post of political affairs columnist. [1] He moved back to Washington as a columnist in May 2007, returning to Ottawa as bureau chief in September 2009. In December 2010 he became the paper's chief political writer. In that role, he has also frequently appeared on Canadian television news programs as a pundit and political analyst. In 2015 he became writer-at-large.

In 2013, Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker co-authored the book The Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future. [3] In January 2014 Ibbitson began a one-year leave of absence from the Globe, to serve as a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and to work on a biography of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which was published in August 2015. In 2016, the book won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. [4]

Ibbitson and Bricker co-authored the book "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline", which was published separately in 2019 in the United States, Great Britain and Canada, and in Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. [5]

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Fiction

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Being John Ibbitson". Ryerson Review of Journalism , Summer 2006.
  2. ↑ Doskoch, Bill (23 April 2004). "Election 2004". CTV . Archived from the original on March 6, 2005. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  3. ↑ Comment, Full (2013-03-05). "Saying goodbye to the Canada we once knew | National Post". National Post. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  4. ↑ "John Ibbitson's biography of Stephen Harper wins the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing". National Post , April 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Population Bust: Demographic Decline and the End of Capitalism as We Know It". Foreign Affairs. September 2019.
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