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Linden Joseph MacIntyre (born May 29, 1943) is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won ten [ 2 ] Gemini Awards , an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his 2009 novel, The Bishop's Man .
In book design, the author page is a section of a book or other literary work that consists of a short—usually a single page long—biography of the author, sometimes accompanied by a photograph of them. Written in the third-person narrative, this page is usually entitled "about the author", resulting in the synonymous name "about the author ...
Causeway: A Passage from Innocence is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Linden MacIntyre, first published in August 2006 by HarperCollins. In the book, the author recounts the 1950s construction of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton to mainland Nova Scotia. MacIntyre reflects on changing ways of life and his relationship with ...
Linden MacIntyre, journalist, broadcaster, novelist, winner of 2009 Giller Prize; Ashley MacIsaac, fiddle player; Daniel MacIvor, actor, playwright, theatre director and film director; Billy MacLellan, actor (Nobody, Defiance, Murdoch Mysteries) Hugh MacLennan, Governor General's Awards-winning author, professor of English at McGill University.
Linden MacIntyre; Ron MacLean, host of Hockey Night in Canada; Carole MacNeil; Rita MacNeil, Rita and Friends; Meredith MacNeill; Sheila MacVicar, former CBS, CNN and ABC news reporter and now with Al Jazeera America; Gloria Macarenko; Bob Mackowycz; Judy Maddren; Alan Maitland, As It Happens (1974–1993) Shaun Majumder, comedian, This Hour ...
Theresa Frances Veronica Burke is a Canadian writer, journalist and producer for the CBC's television newsmagazine, The Fifth Estate. [1] [2] She was born in Toronto.On May 20, 1999, Burke was on the telephone with bank robber Ty Conn, an escapee from the Kingston Penitentiary (one of Canada's most secure prisons) when he shot himself as the police were attempting his re-arrest. [3]
Off has also written books on the Canadian military, including The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle (2000) and The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: the Story of Canada's Secret War (2005, ISBN 0-679-31294-3). In 2006, she released Bitter Chocolate , a book about the corruption and human rights abuses associated with the cocoa industry.
The name is a reference to the term "Fourth Estate", and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into original journalism. The program has been on the air since 16 September 1975, [ 1 ] and its primary focus is on investigative journalism .