Michael Dennis Duffy, known as Mike Duffy, (born May 27, 1946 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian Senator and former Canadian television journalist. Prior to his appointment to the upper house he was the Ottawa editor for CTV News Channel, and a host of Mike Duffy Live and Countdown with Mike Duffy on the network. Duffy sits in the Senate as a Conservative, representing Prince Edward Island.
Duffy began his career as a teen disc...
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Michael Dennis Duffy, known as Mike Duffy, (born May 27, 1946 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian Senator and former Canadian television journalist. Prior to his appointment to the upper house he was the Ottawa editor for CTV News Channel, and a host of Mike Duffy Live and Countdown with Mike Duffy on the network. Duffy sits in the Senate as a Conservative, representing Prince Edward Island.
Duffy began his career as a teen disc jockey at CFCY-TV in the mid-1960s. He moved to print journalism with The Guardian in Charlottetown, before heading to CFCF as a lineup and assignment editor in 1969, and in 1971 he joined CFRA radio in Ottawa as a political reporter.
Duffy joined CBC radio's Parliament Hill bureau in 1974, and became a reporter for The National in 1977. Duffy is primarily known for his work as an Ottawa journalist, but he has been a foreign correspondent. He covered the collapse of the South Vietnamese regime in 1975 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...
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