Mike Duffy
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The Honourable Mike Duffy |
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| Senator from Prince Edward Island | |
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Assumed office January 2, 2009 |
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| Nominated by | Stephen Harper |
| Appointed by | Michaëlle Jean |
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Michael Dennis Duffy May 27, 1946 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
| Political party | Independent Senators Group |
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Non-affiliated (2013-2016) Conservative (2009-2013) |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Duffy (divorced) Heather Duffy (m. 1992) |
| Profession | Television journalist |
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Non-affiliated (2013-2016)
Michael Dennis "Mike" Duffy (born May 27, 1946) is a Canadian senator and former Canadian television journalist. Prior to his appointment to the upper house in 2008, he was the Ottawa editor for CTV News Channel. After resigning from the Conservative caucus on May 16, 2013 during a controversy over the expense claims filed by him and other Senators, Duffy sat in the Senate as an independent, representing Prince Edward Island, until the Senate voted on November 5, 2013, to suspend him without pay for the remainder of the term. On April 21, 2016 he was acquitted of all 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery laid against him, by a judge who sharply rebuked the police and Crown for pursuing the charges.
Mike Duffy was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island to Lillian and Wilfrid Duffy, and is the grandson of Gavan Duffy, a PEI Liberal MLA and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.
Duffy briefly studied humanities at St. Dunstan’s College. He became a ham radio operator at the age of 16. He 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 in Montreal as a lineup and assignment editor in 1969, and in 1971 he joined CFRA radio in Ottawa as a political reporter.
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