Lowell Green was born on 7 July 1936 and is a Canadian radio personality, journalist, and author, best known as the host of The Lowell Green Show, a conservative morning talk show that aired on the Ottawa Ontario radio station CFRA.
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Lowell Green has written newspaper articles and autobiographical, historical and fictional books.
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Lowell Green was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, to Canadian parents, and immigrated to Canada.
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Lowell Green graduated from Macdonald Agricultural College of McGill University in Montreal Quebec in 1956.
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Lowell Green retired briefly from radio in the 1980s, but returned in 1990.
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In 1993, he returned to CFRA and hosted The Lowell Green Show until his official retirement on 4 January 2016.
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Lowell Green continued contributing to the station's weekly midday program News and Views with Rob Snow until a Bell Media restructuring in mid-November 2019.
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On 31 December 2019, in an emotional farewell, Lowell Green ended his radio career on CFRA with the following final words:.
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On 14 September 2020, Lowell Green returned online with The Island of Sanity, a one-hour podcast available on various internet platforms, which was pared down to thirty minutes on 13 October 2020 and featured live on internet radio and the social networking platform Facebook.
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Lowell Green's listeners shipped many bottles and containers of polluted water.
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Lowell Green has contributed to ongoing efforts to help modernize and renovate the Saint Vincent Hospital and the Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital in Ottawa.
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Lowell Green was a founder of the Sunday Herald in Ottawa which was in 1988 purchased by the Ottawa Sun.
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Lowell Green has served on the boards of the United Way, the John Howard Society, the Drug Addiction Research Council, and on the town council in West Hull Quebec.
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Lowell Green has received several awards, including one for his 1958 coverage of the Springhill mining disaster in Nova Scotia, and one from the International Olympic Commission for broadcasts made from the 1976 Summer Olympic Games while working in Montreal.
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Lowell Green has received the Friendship Award from the Royal Canadian Legion, the Chief of Defence staff medallion, and the Senate 150th Anniversary Medal.
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Lowell Green has been decorated with both the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
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Lowell Green has been awarded the Golden Ribbon Award For Outstanding Community Service by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
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Lowell Green has received citations from Prime Minister John Diefendbaker, Prime Minister Lester B Pearson, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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Lowell Green has received the Community Builders Award displayed at Ottawa City Hall, and has an Ottawa hospital wing and an Ottawa day named in his honour.
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In 1968, Lowell Green attempted to win the Liberal nomination for the federal riding of Pontiac during the 1968 federal election, but lost this bid to Thomas Lefebvre.
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On 13 December 1984, Lowell Green ran for the Ontario Liberal Party in a provincial by-election in Ottawa Centre.
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Lowell Green came third, losing to NDP candidate Evelyn Gigantes.
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Lowell Green blamed this loss on his "sharp" personality and a low voter turnout.
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Lowell Green has received the Canada Book Award which recognizes and promotes Canadian authors.