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John has been an author, reporter, editor, blogger and columnist. He has appeared regularly on radio and TV. His field is politics but he writes about everything. A veteran of the Telegram and Sun newspapers, he has been active in many community organizations.
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More than 50 years of writing and volunteering
John has a Ryerson degree, where he was student president, Ryersonian editor, historian and lecturer and served on many board committees. He also studied at U of T.
He was editor of the Whitehorse Star in 1957, and reporter and editor on the Toronto Telegram from 1958 to 1971. He was an original daily columnist and associate editor with the Toronto Sun, and the Editor from 1985 to 1997.
He has been president of the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto Press Club and Press Clubs of Canada, and director/ governor of the Toronto Outdoor Art Show, Runnymede Health Care Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto conservation authority, Ontario Safety League, Royal Winter Fair, and Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
He has writing and service awards from the Toronto police, OSL, B'nai Brith, conservation authority, St. John's Ambulance, Governor General and Toronto council.
He has contributed to books on the CNE, outdoor art show and Ontario politics, ghost written two biographies, and written for Time, Macleans and other magazines. He has been a commentator/ panelist on most Toronto television and radio stations.
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THE CRAZY SIDE OF HUMANE CRUSADERS
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MARATHON OF A VANISHED LIFE
RUNNING FOR A GRANDMOTHER HE NEVER KNEW My mother died in 1941. But her name will live again in this Boston Marathon as my son John ...
CHARLES TEMPLETON SAVED HIM FROM SCANDAL The warm stories about the passing of that legendary evangelist Billy Graham skip over that an ...
REHEATING A STEW OF BEEFS
Some Gripes Never Change Readers used to envy me when I devoted a column to beefs and what bugged me about the careless service of modern t...
I have waded through oceans of bureaucratese, medical goofs, misinformation, lies, propaganda and just plain crap and concluded that I need ...
GETTING SCREWED BY THE PUBLIC SECTOR
TIME TO FIRE ALL THE POLITICIANS AND UNCIVIL SERVANTS Many of you have seen a variation of this picture/cart...
THE SCALPING OF RYERSON'S PAST
If our world hadn't been stampeded into stupid decisions where a few activists with a feeble grasp on real facts determine what is "...
A STEWARD OF TALENT
SORTING THE GREATS FROM THE GOOFS It ended well but it almost got derailed at the start. Thank heavens for luck and senior editors tough...
Supposed friends used to say when an old fart like me retired that he or she was worn out. The reality is that in most cases we don't ...
BRAMPTON BILLY WAS A GREAT PREMIER
He was so competent as Ontario's second longest serving premier that it didn't show under the supposed blandness that Bill Davis was...