Linda Frum
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The Honourable Linda Frum |
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| Senator for Ontario | |
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Assumed office August 27, 2009 |
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| Nominated by | Stephen Harper |
| Appointed by | Michaëlle Jean |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 13, 1963 Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Howard Sokolowski |
| Relations |
Barbara Frum, mother David Frum, brother |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Senator, author, journalist |
| Religion | Jewish |
Linda Frum (born January 13, 1963) is a Canadian author and journalist, and a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada since 2009.
Frum was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Barbara Frum, a journalist, and Murray Frum, a real estate developer. Her brother David Frum is a political author and journalist, and was a speech writer for George W. Bush and helped coin the phrase "Axis of Evil". Another brother, Matthew Frum, was adopted and is of aboriginal ancestry. Frum attended Havergal College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University, Montreal in 1984. In June 2010, she received an Honorary Doctorate from Yeshiva University.
She has authored two books, Linda Frum's Guide to Canadian Universities (1987, with an updated edition published in 1990) and Barbara Frum: A Daughter's Memoir (1996). Frum is a former contributing editor to Maclean's, and was a columnist with the National Post from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2006 to 2007. In 1996 she won a Gemini Award for Best Social-Political Documentary Program for the film Ms. Conceptions.
She has served as a volunteer for many community organizations. She is a member of the Board of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She and husband Howard Sokolowski recently endowed The Sokolowski/Frum Reception, Triage and Waiting Area with a $5 million gift to the Hospital. She is a former vice-chair of the board of governors of Upper Canada College and a former member of the board of the Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. She is honorary patron of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. In 2006, she was chair of the Women's Division of the United Jewish Appeal. She is a past board member of the Canada Israel Committee, the Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation, Soulpepper Theatre, and the Ontario Arts Council.
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