Michael Valpy
Award-winning journalist and author.
Last Contribution:
Joe Clark versus Pierre Trudeau, 1980
Contributor Biography
Mr. Valpy is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author. He writes for The Globe and Mail where he made his reputation on both political and human interest stories. Through a long career at the Globe, he has been a reporter, Ottawa-based national political columnist, member of the editorial board, deputy managing editor, Africa-based correspondent during the last years of apartheid, and religious affairs columnist. He also has been a national political columnist for The Vancouver Sun.
He has won three National Newspaper Awards, and one nomination, co-authored three books (two on Canada's Constitution and the third on on the 21st-century generation of new Canadian adults), produced public affairs documentaries for CBC Radio, contributed chapters to several books on public policy issues and written for Maclean's, Time Canada, Policy Options, Shambhala Sun, and Elm Street.
In 1997, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Litt) from Trent University. He also received the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2002. He is a senior fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto.
