Fonds F0190 - Stevie Cameron fonds

Stevie Cameron is an investigative journalist and author. She was born in Belleville, Ontario on 11 October 1943. She was educated at the University of British Columbia (B. A. 1964), University College, London England (1966-1968), and received chef training at the Cordon Bleu School in Paris (1974-1975). Cameron began her journalism career at the Toronto Star, as Food Writer, in 1977. By the mid 1980s she was covering political affairs for the Ottawa Citizen and was Weekly Ottawa Commentator both for CBC morning radio and for CBC TV's Newsday. She later became a national columnist for the Globe and Mail, host of CBC TV's The Fifth Estate, and contributing editor to Saturday Night Magazine. Cameron's monographs and investigative work about the backrooms and boardrooms of Ottawa and corporate Canada have earned her many honours and awards including Book and Author of the Year for 'On The Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years' (1994) from the Periodical Marketer's Awards (1995). She was named the Ryerson Journalism School's Atkinson Lecturer in 1995, and she earned the 1998 Quill Award from the Press Club of Windsor. Cameron works as editor-in-chief of Elm Street magazine, columnist with the Globe and Mail, and a contributing editor to Maclean's.