Editing Jeffrey Simpson

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{{Short description|Canadian journalist}}
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'''Jeffrey Carl Simpson''', [[Order of Canada|OC]] (born February 17, 1949), is a Canadian journalist. Simpson was ''[[The Globe and Mail]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s national affairs columnist for almost three decades. He has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes: the [[Governor General's Award]] for non-fiction book writing, the [[National Magazine Awards (Canada)|National Magazine Award]] for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hyman Solomon Award {{!}} Journalism |url=https://ppforum.ca/awards/hyman-solomon-award/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Public Policy Forum |language=en}}</ref> and the [[Donner Prize]] for the best public policy book by a Canadian.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/globe-columnist-jeffrey-simpson-wins-50000-donner-prize/article11565161/|title = Globe columnist Jeffrey Simpson wins $50,000 Donner Prize}}</ref> In January 2000, he became an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]].

Simpson retired from the ''Globe and Mail'' at the end of June 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-jeffrey-simpson-decades-four-snapshots-of-a-columnists-eventfulcareer/article30364106/|title = Opinion: The Jeffrey Simpson decades: Four snapshots of a columnist's eventful career}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Simpson was born in [[New York City]] and moved to [[Canada]] when he was 10 years old. Educated at the [[University of Toronto Schools]], he graduated from [[Queen's University, Kingston|Queen's University]] in 1971 in History and Political Science. There, he worked for the campus radio station [[CFRC]] and won the university's Tricolour Award in his graduating year. He then went on to the [[London School of Economics]].

In 1972 to 1973, he worked as a Parliamentary Intern in [[Ottawa]], where he worked for [[Ed Broadbent]]. Then, he joined ''The Globe and Mail''.

== 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>

==Bibliography==
Simpson has authored eight books:
*1980 - ''Discipline of Power: The Conservative interlude and the Liberal Restoration'', winner of the [[1980 Governor General's Awards|1980 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction]].
*1988 - ''Spoils of Power: The Politics of Patronage''
*1993 - ''Faultlines: Struggling for a Canadian Vision''
*1996 - ''The Anxious Years: Politics In The Age Of Mulroney And Chretien''
*2000 - ''Star-Spangled Canadians: Canadians living the American Dream''
*2001 - ''[[The Friendly Dictatorship]]''
*2007 - ''Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge'' (co-authored with  [[Mark Jaccard]] and Nicholas J. "Nic" Rivers)
*2012 - ''Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health Care System Needs to be Dragged into the 21st Century''

==See also==
* [[List of newspaper columnists]]

==References==
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*Information provided by ''The Globe and Mail'', Toronto.

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