Jeffrey Carl Simpson, OC (born 1949 in New York City, New York), is an influential Canadian journalist. For the past 23 years he has been The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist. He has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes — the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award f...
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Jeffrey Carl Simpson, OC (born 1949 in New York City, New York), is an influential Canadian journalist. For the past 23 years he has been The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist. He has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes — the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the 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. In January, 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Simpson was born in New York and moved to Canada when he was 10 years old, when he studied at the University of Toronto Schools. He graduated from Queen's University in 1971 in History and Political Science. While at Queen's he worked for the campus radio station CFRC. He won the University's Tricolour Award in his graduating year. He then went on to the London School of Economics. In 1972–1973, he worked as a Parliamentary Intern in...
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