1. Stevie Cameron was a Canadian investigative journalist and author.
32 Facts About Stevie Cameron
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Stevie Cameron worked for various newspapers such as the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail.
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Stevie Cameron co-hosted the investigative news television program, The Fifth Estate, on CBC-TV in the 1990s.
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Stevie Cameron was an author of non-fiction books, including On the Take about former prime minister Brian Mulroney.
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Stevie Cameron's expose on Mulroney and the Airbus Affair led to many legal battles including a judicial hearing to determine if she was an RCMP confidential informant: she was not.
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Stevie Cameron won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction crime book for her work on the Pickton case.
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Stevie Cameron's father was Harold Edward "Whitey" Dahl, a mercenary American pilot who fought in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War.
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Stevie Cameron came to Canada in 1940, and the next year, married her mother, the former Eleanor Roblin Bone, in Belleville.
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Stevie Cameron was fired in 1953 after he was charged with stealing gold and for having an affair with a Swiss Air hostess.
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Stevie Cameron later became the Ottawa Citizen's Lifestyles and Travel editor.
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In 1986, Stevie Cameron moved to Toronto as a national columnist and reporter for The Globe and Mail, and published her first book, in 1989, called Ottawa Inside Out.
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In 1995, Stevie Cameron joined Maclean's magazine as a contributing editor.
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In 1996, Stevie Cameron was the founding editor of Elm Street, a national general-interest magazine, aimed at university-educated women.
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Stevie Cameron never stopped writing investigative features for Maclean's during this time.
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Stevie Cameron began researching the Robert Pickton murder case in British Columbia in 2002, and published her first book on the case, The Pickton File, in 2007.
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Stevie Cameron completed her second book about the Pickton case in, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women.
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Stevie Cameron was a monthly columnist and a contributor to the Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, the Southam News Service, Saturday Night magazine, the Financial Post, Chatelaine, and Canadian Living.
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Stevie Cameron lectured at journalism schools across the country, and in 2008, she spent the fall term as Irving Chair in Media at St Thomas University's journalism school in Fredericton.
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Stevie Cameron became the focus of a spin campaign by Brian Mulroney's defenders, such as Luc Lavoie, to discredit the allegations against him made in her books.
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Stevie Cameron vigorously denied the allegations, which, if true, would have compromised her credibility as a journalist.
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Matthews admitted that Stevie Cameron was not considered an RCMP confidential informant, contradicting previous assertions he made in court.
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Stevie Cameron considered her a confidential informant and through the RCMP's legal console, told Matthews in 2001 to consider her a confidential informant in his initial testimony.
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Stevie Cameron admitted that Cameron was telling the truth when she said any information she had shared with the RCMP was already in the public domain, and that the information she shared was of little help to their investigation.
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On February 14,2007, Stevie Cameron appeared before the House of Commons of Canada Ethics Committee in their examination of the Mulroney Airbus Settlement.
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Stevie Cameron confirmed that everything she knows on the subject had been documented in her books.
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Stevie Cameron made a personal statement that she was not a police informant; any information she had given to the RCMP was already in the public domain at the time.
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Stevie Cameron didn't participate in the inquiry and was barely following it as, in 2009, she was working on her second book about Pickton.
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Stevie Cameron served on the board of Second Harvest in Toronto as well as on the board of Portland Place, an assisted housing project for homeless and underhoused people.
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In recognition of more than two-decades of humanitarian work and social activism, Stevie Cameron was invested into the Order of Canada in the 2013 Canadian honours.
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Stevie Cameron married David Cameron, a professor at the University of Toronto, and they had two daughters, Amy and Tassie Cameron.
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Stevie Cameron died at her home in Toronto on August 31,2024 at the age of 80.
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Stevie Cameron had been afflicted by Parkinson's disease and dementia in the final years of her life.