Stevie Cameron | |
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Cameron receiving an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Vancouver School of Theology in 2004
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Born |
Belleville, Ontario, Canada |
11 October 1943
Occupation | Journalist, writer |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 1980s to present |
Notable works | Ottawa Inside Out, On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years, Blue Trust, The Pickton File |
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Stevie (Stephanie Graham) Cameron, CM DD, (born 11 October 1943) is an award-winning Canadian investigative journalist and best-selling author. Born in Belleville, Ontario in 1943, she now lives in Toronto with her husband, David Cameron, a professor at the University of Toronto. They have two daughters, who are both Toronto-based screenwriters.
Stevie Cameron was born in Belleville, Ontario as daughter of Harold Edward Dahl, a mercenary American pilot who fought in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War; she has an honours B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, worked for the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa in the 1960s, attended graduate school at University College London, England, for three years, and taught English literature at Trent University.
After a year at Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris in 1975, she began working as a food writer and in 1977 became the food editor of the Toronto Star; a year later she moved to the Ottawa Journal as Lifestyles editor. She later became the Ottawa Citizen's Lifestyles and Travel editor; four years later she joined a new investigative journalism unit at the Citizen and also became a national political columnist.
In 1986 Cameron moved to Toronto as a national columnist and reporter for the Globe and Mail, and published her first book, in 1989, called Ottawa Inside Out. In 1990 she became a host of the CBC Television public affairs program The Fifth Estate but returned to the Globe in 1991 as a freelance columnist and feature writer.