Editing Jeffrey Simpson (section)

== Career ==
Simpson's career with the ''[[Globe and Mail]]'' 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 18 months later, he was named as its Ottawa bureau chief. From 1981&ndash;1983, Simpson served as the paper's [[Europe|European]] correspondent, based in [[London]]. From January 1984 to June 2016, he wrote a daily ''Globe and Mail'' column on national affairs.

Simpson has written numerous magazine articles for such publications as ''[[Saturday Night (magazine)|Saturday Night]]'', ''[[Report on Business Magazine]]'', the ''[[Journal of Canadian Studies]],'' ''[[Queen's Quarterly]]'', and the ''[[Literary Review of Canada]]''. He has spoken at dozens of major conferences in Canada and internationally on a variety of domestic and international issues.

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 University|Oxford]], [[Edinburgh University|Edinburgh]], [[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Brigham Young University|Brigham Young]], [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]], [[University of Maine|Maine]], [[University of California|California]], and 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.

Simpson is a Senior Fellow at the [[University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs]].[https://web.archive.org/web/20070809134412/http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/api/eng/index.asp]

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 Canada|republicanism]] in his column.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/will-canada-ever-grow-up/article753897/ Simpson, "Will Canada ever grow up?" 2 April 2002]</ref>

Simpson is an avid [[Ottawa Senators]] fan and in 2011 attempted to convince the team to replace its general manager, [[Bryan Murray (ice hockey)|Bryan Murray]] by referencing his position as the national affairs columnist on the letterhead of the ''Globe and Mail'' to demand the change.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.the6thsens.com/2011-articles/january/reactions858589.html|title=Senators|access-date=January 27, 2011|archive-date=January 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129031327/http://www.the6thsens.com/2011-articles/january/reactions858589.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He threatened to not renew his season tickets unless the team fired its general manager.

Simpson is also a member of the [[Trilateral Commission]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trilateral.org/download/file/TC_%20list_5-12%20(2).pdf |title= |website=www.trilateral.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526112706/http://www.trilateral.org/download/file/TC_%20list_5-12%20%282%29.pdf |archive-date=May 26, 2012}}</ref>