Mark Bourrie

Mark Bourrie is an award-winning Canadian journalist, best-selling author, historian, and lecturer at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. His work has also appeared in many major magazines and newspapers.

Bourrie earned his BA in History at the University of Waterloo in 1990. He holds a diploma in public policy and administration from the University of Guelph, a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University and a doctorate in Canadian media history at the University of Ottawa. His doctoral thesis was on the press censorship system in Canada in the Second World War and was published by Douglas & McIntyre of Vancouver in July 2011, as The Fog of War. He recently obtained his Juris Doctor degree. His master's thesis was on the media's role in banning cannabis in Canada and was published in 2004 by Key Porter as Hemp. His public policy and administration research focused on Canada's security intelligence agencies.

Before beginning a career in journalism, Bourrie worked in remote areas of Canada for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He worked as a forest fire fighter in northern Ontario in 1981. Bourrie was a summer student reporter at The Hamilton Spectator and The London Free Press and a student reporter at The Globe and Mail before taking a job on The Toronto Sun in 1979 as assistant business editor and news reporter. He worked for two decades as a freelance news and feature writer, primarily for The Globe and Mail from 1981 to 1989 and the Toronto Star from 1989 to 1999 and again in 2009-2010. He was Parliamentary correspondent for the Law Times from 1994 until 2006. He also wrote for the InterPress Service, the United Nations-sponsored news and feature service. By the late 1990s, he had branched out from newspaper freelance work to book and magazine writing.

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