Paul Palango

Paul Palango
Born	1950 Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)	Author, newspaper editor, investigative journalist
Notable work	22 Murders (2022 book)

Paul Palango (born 1950) is a Canadian author and investigative journalist. Palango worked as a journalist and editor for The Hamilton Spectator and The Globe and Mail. He has written four non-fiction books about policing in Canada, including 22 Murders.

Early life

Palango was born in 1950 in Ontario, Canada. ^{[1] [2]}

Career

In the 1970s he worked for The Hamilton Spectator before moving to The Globe and Mail in 1977 and remaining there until 1990 when he retired as an editor. ^{[3] [4]} Palango is noted for his reporting on authority figures including the Canadian police, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Canadian media, and business leaders. ^[5] In 2000, he opened a glass art business in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. ^[1]

He returned to writing, publishing 22 Murders in 2022, his critical account of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police response to the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks. ^[6] The book was the second on the Toronto Star's list of bestselling non-fiction in Canada in April 2022. ^[6]

The Georgia Straight editor, Charlie Smith, described Palango as "one of Canada's last remaining investigative reporters." in August 2022. ^[7]

Books

• Above the Law, 1994, McClelland & Stewart, ISBN   978-0-7710-6905-5 ^[5]
• The Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP - and Canada, 1998, McClelland & Stewart, ISBN   978-0-7710-6906-2 ^[5]
• Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP, 2008, Key Porter Books, ISBN   978-1-55470-042-4 ^{[8] [9]}
• 22 Murders , 2022, Random House Canada, ISBN   978-1-0390-0127-5 ^[3]

Anatomy of a cover-up, 2025, the truth about the RCMP and the Nova Scotia massacre.

Personal life

Palango lives in Nova Scotia. ^[1]

References

1. Ali, Leena (28 May 2014). "Rural Artists Thinking Big" (PDF). Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin. pp. C1.
2. Palango, Paul. Above the law.
3. Johnston, Douglas J. (2022-05-14). "RCMP's many shortcomings chronicled in account of N.S. massacre". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
4. Bing, Hannah. "The duty to investigate". The Signal. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
5. McKenna, Paul (2009-02-10). "Author doesn't get the RCMP". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
6. "The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending April 20, 2022". The Toronto Star. 2022-04-20. ISSN   0319-0781 . Retrieved 2022-06-12.
7. "Here's why B.C. residents need to pay attention to the Mass Casualty Commission in Nova Scotia". The Georgia Straight. 2022-08-06. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
8. "Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. 2008-11-07. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
9. "Paul Palango cites training, recruitment as factors in Vancouver police shootings". The Georgia Straight. 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2022-06-12.