Jeffrey Simpson has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes: the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing.
19 Facts About Jeffrey Simpson
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Jeffrey Simpson has won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism and the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian.
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Jeffrey Simpson retired from the Globe and Mail at the end of June 2016.
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Jeffrey Simpson was born in New York City and moved to Canada when he was 10 years old.
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Jeffrey Simpson then went on to the London School of Economics.
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Jeffrey Simpson has written numerous magazine articles for such publications as Saturday Night, Report on Business Magazine, the Journal of Canadian Studies, Queen's Quarterly, and the Literary Review of Canada.
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Jeffrey Simpson has spoken at dozens of major conferences in Canada and internationally on a variety of domestic and international issues.
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Jeffrey Simpson is a frequent and enthusiastic participant in regular political debate on radio or television, in French and in English.
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Jeffrey Simpson has been a guest lecturer at such universities as Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Brigham Young, Johns Hopkins, Maine, California, and more than a dozen universities in Canada.
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Jeffrey Simpson has been a Skelton-Clark fellow and Brockington Visitor at Queen's University.
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Jeffrey Simpson has been a John V Clyne fellow at the University of British Columbia, a distinguished visitor at the University of Alberta, and a member of the Georgetown University Leadership Seminar.
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Jeffrey Simpson has been awarded honorary doctorates of laws from the University of British Columbia and the University of Western Ontario.
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Jeffrey Simpson has been a member of the board of trustees at Queen's University; the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia; the advisory board of the Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta; the editorial board of The Queen's Quarterly, and the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto.
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Jeffrey Simpson has been vice-chairman of the City of Ottawa Library Board.
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Jeffrey Simpson is a Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
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In 2006, Jeffrey Simpson was awarded the Charles Lynch Award in recognition of his outstanding coverage of national issues.
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Jeffrey Simpson is an outspoken critic of the monarchy of Canada and has written in favour of republicanism in his column.
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Jeffrey Simpson is an avid Ottawa Senators fan and in 2011 attempted to convince the team to replace its general manager, Bryan Murray by referencing his position as the national affairs columnist on the letterhead of the Globe and Mail to demand the change.
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Jeffrey Simpson threatened to not renew his season tickets unless the team fired its general manager.