Stevie Cameron
Auteur de On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
Œuvres de Stevie Cameron
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women (2010) 106 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1943
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Études
- University of British Columbia
University College London
Cordon Bleu Cooking School, Paris France - Professions
- academic (Trent University)
investigative journalist - Courte biographie
- I come from Belleville, Ontario but grew up in many countries including Venezuela, the United States and Switzerland. I was fortunate to land at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in the 1960s to study English and art history; later, after a year as an intelligence officer-in-training and as a foreign service officer in Ottawa, I did my graduate work in English at University College in London, England and taught English at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
But the most fun I ever had at any school was the year I spent at the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris. My goal was to become a food writer.
And that's what happened - I became the Toronto Star's food writer in 1977.
Soon I moved into other areas of newspaper reporting and finally found the best place for me was in covering national politics for the Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail and Maclean's.
Eventually I moved into television as the host of the CBC's Fifth Estate (big mistake) and left to write On the Take, a book about the Mulroney years in government. Soon afterwards I started a national magazine called Elm Street (good move- it was a first-class magazine and won many national awards). With regret, I left Elm Street three years later to write The Last Amigo, a book about Karlheinz Schreiber, a German-Canadian arms dealer who kick-started the Airbus scandal in Canada and payoff scandals in Germany that destroyed the reputation of former chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Membres
Critiques
Listes
True Crime (1)
Prix et récompenses
Vous aimerez peut-être aussi
Auteurs associés
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 313
- Popularité
- #75,401
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 14
For anyone interested in recent Canadian political history I highly recommend this book. The book details just how rapacious was the corruption during the Mulroney era. Apparently a large majority in Parliament creates a sense of impunity. The government controls all of the levers of power, with frighteningly few checks. People try to get in the way of obvious wrong at their peril.
As we saw more recently with the "Sponsorship" scandal that became publicly known in 2003 from the Auditor General's report, the Tories did not have a monopoly on gross corruption. I have the book four stars because despite a few references to Chretien and Trudeau era corruption it seemed solidly aimed at one party.
Notwithstanding the content was gripping and at time gruesome. There were deaths under mysterious circumstances. Helpless widows reduced to poverty. Fraudulent bankruptcies. It has all the thrill of a true crime novel, but it's non-fiction.… (plus d'informations)