John Ibbitson

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John Ibbitson
Born1955 (age 68–69)
City of Toronto Book Award,
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

John Ibbitson (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist. Since 1999, he has been a political writer and columnist for The Globe and Mail.[2]

Career

Ibbitson graduated from the

City of Toronto Book Award
. His journalism has also been nominated for a National Newspaper Award.

Ibbitson entered the

Washington bureau chief at The Globe and Mail,[1] returning to Canada one year later to take up the post of political affairs columnist.[1]
He moved back to Washington as a columnist in May 2007, returning to Ottawa as bureau chief in September 2009. In December 2010 he became the paper's chief political writer. In that role, he has also frequently appeared on Canadian television news programs as a pundit and political analyst. In 2015 he became writer-at-large.

In 2013, Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker co-authored the book The Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future.[3] In January 2014 Ibbitson began a one-year leave of absence from the Globe, to serve as a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and to work on a biography of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which was published in August 2015. In 2016, the book won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.[4]

Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker co-authored the book "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline," which was published separately in 2019 in the United States, Great Britain and Canada, and in Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Korean.[5]

He is "married" to Grant Burke.[1]

Publications

Non-fiction

  • Promised Land: Inside the Mike Harris Revolution (Prentice Hall, 1997)
  • Loyal No More: Ontario's Struggle for a Separate Destiny (HarperCollins, 2001)
  • The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream (McClelland & Stewart, 2005)
  • Open & Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama and Canada Has Stephen Harper (McClelland & Stewart, 2009)
  • The Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future with Darrell Bricker (HarperCollins, 2013)
  • Stephen Harper, a biography of Canada's 22nd Prime Minister (McClelland & Stewart, (2015)
  • Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, with Darrell Bricker (McClelland & Stewart, 2019)
  • The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada. (Signal, 2023)

Fiction

  • Jeremy's War: 1812 (Maxwell Macmillan, 1991)
  • The Night Hazel Came to Town (Maxwell Macmillan, 1993)
  • The Landing (KidsCan Press, 2008)

References

  1. ^
    Ryerson Review of Journalism
    , Summer 2006.
  2. ^ Doskoch, Bill (23 April 2004). "Election 2004". CTV. Archived from the original on March 6, 2005. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  3. ^ Comment, Full (2013-03-05). "Saying goodbye to the Canada we once knew | National Post". National Post. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  4. ^ "John Ibbitson's biography of Stephen Harper wins the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing". National Post, April 21, 2016.
  5. ^ "The Population Bust: Demographic Decline and the End of Capitalism as We Know It". Foreign Affairs. September 2019.
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