1. Andrew Coyne is the cousin of constitutional lawyer Deborah Coyne, who is the mother of Pierre Trudeau's youngest child.
15 Facts About Andrew Coyne
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Andrew Coyne studied at the University of Manitoba where he became the editor of The Manitoban student newspaper.
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Andrew Coyne spent two years reporting for the Winnipeg Sun.
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In 1981, Andrew Coyne transferred to the University of Toronto's Trinity College, where his classmates included Jim Balsillie, Malcolm Gladwell, Tony Clement, Nigel Wright, Patricia Pearson, Atom Egoyan, and author and political strategist John Duffy.
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Andrew Coyne received a BA in economics and history from Trinity.
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Andrew Coyne then went to the London School of Economics, where he received his master's degree in economics.
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Andrew Coyne had a regular column in the Globe between 1994 and 1996, when he joined Southam News as a nationally syndicated columnist.
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Andrew Coyne left Maclean's in 2011 to return to the Post as a columnist.
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On election day, Andrew Coyne announced that as a result of the paper refusing to run his election column, he was resigning as the Post's editorial page and comment editor but would remain as a columnist.
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Andrew Coyne has been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Saturday Night, the now-defunct Canadian edition of Time, and other publications.
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Andrew Coyne has written for the conservative magazine The Next City.
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Andrew Coyne has been a longtime member of the At Issue panel on CBC's The National, where he appeared as early as 2007 in the day of Peter Mansbridge.
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In November 2019, Andrew Coyne announced that he would henceforth be employed by The Globe and Mail.
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Andrew Coyne is a proponent of the Century Initiative, a proposal spearheaded by Dominic Barton to increase Canada's population to 100 million by 2100.
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Andrew Coyne admits that this lofty goal might not increase Canada's standard of living.