Michael Harris
 Michael Harris     (journalist, documentary filmmaker) | |
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| Born | Michael Terry Harris 1948 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canada |
| Alma mater | York University |
Investigative journalist who attended the 1996 Bilderberg conference. Cancelled from corporate media after criticizing Israel. | |
Michael Harris is a Canadian investigative journalist, radio personality, documentary filmmaker, iPolitics columnist and the author of nine books.[1] He attended the 1996 Bilderberg conference.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, to Audrey McDonald (née Tilley) and James McDonald, Harris is a graduate of York University in Toronto, and was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar (University College in Dublin, Ireland). His work has sparked four Royal Commissions of Inquiry.
Harris went to Newfoundland in 1977, as a story editor for CBC Television owned-and-operated station CBNT's newscast Here and Now,[2] before becoming in 1986 the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of The Sunday Express weekly in St. John's, nationally recognized as "the best little newspaper in Canada."[3] There he broke the Mount Cashel orphanage abuse story[4] and the Sprung Greenhouse boondoggle.[3] Later he went on to become the Executive Director of News and Current Affairs for the Newfoundland Broadcasting Company, then owner of the local CTV Television Network affiliate CJON (NTV).
Harris was at one time a Queen's Park correspondent for the National Post, The Globe and Mail as Atlantic Bureau Chief and later a senior parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa.[1]
His standing up for Palestinian rights has led to a concerted campaign from organizations claiming to represent the Jewish community to have him cancelled [5].
In Ottawa Harris hosted an afternoon radio talk show, Michael Harris Live, on Ottawa-based CFRA, and was a columnist for The Ottawa Sun newspaper until March 2011, when his column was cancelled for writing about Israel's abuses of international law and Palestinian human rights. [6][7]
Michael Harris Live on CFRA Ottawa was cancelled February 9, 2012 for criticizing Israel[8] He is now a columnist for the website iPolitics.
His book 1986 book Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall detailed the story of Donald Marshall, Jr.’s wrongful conviction in 1972. His investigative journalism culminating in the book Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel, triggered the Hughes Inquiry into the allegations of abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage. Harris also authored Rare Ambition: The Crosbies of Newfoundland, Con Game: The Truth About Canada’s Prisons and the national best seller Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery. Elizabeth May, the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada called it "The definitive book on the cod catastrophe... After reading this book, you wouldn’t trust the Department of Fisheries and Oceans with your aquarium"[9] (cited on back jacket cover). His 1976 novel Outrider on Yonge Street was never published.[2]
Works
Non-fiction
- Justice denied: The law versus Donald Marshall (1986), Macmillan of Canada, ISBN 0771596901
- Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel (1990), Viking Adult, ISBN 0670834815
- Rare Ambition : The Crosbies of Newfoundland (1993), Penguin, ISBN 0140232206
- The Prodigal Husband: the Tragedy of Helmuth and Hanna Buxbaum (1994), McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 0771039565
- The Judas Kiss: The Undercover Life of Patrick Kelly (1996), McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 077103959X
- Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery (1998), McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 0771039581
- Con Game: The Truth About Canada's Prisons (2002), McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 0771039611
- Party of One: Stephen Harper And Canada's Radical Makeover (2014), Viking, ISBN 0670067016
Movies
- Unholy Orders (based on the book)
- Vanishing Point (based on Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery)
- Murder, Most Likely (based on The Judas Kiss: The Undercover Life of Patrick Kelly (1999)
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1996 | 30 May 1996 | 2 June 1996 | Canada Toronto | The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2015 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
References
- ↑ a b http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/12032/michael-harris
- ↑ a b http://blog.vanangels.ca/2011/08/cfra-radio-talk-show-with-michael.html
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133146/http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/newspapers/s.htm%7C
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/philip-lee-mount-cashel-1.3539578
- ↑ https://jfjfp.com/courageous-canadian-journalist-fired-for-criticism-of-israel/
- ↑ 580 CFRA News Talk Radio. Cfra.com. Retrieved on 2011-09-23.
- ↑ http://rabble.ca/news/2011/04/criticize-harper-get-fired-ottawa-sun
- ↑ http://jfjfp.com/?p=28414
- ↑ http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/75830/lament-for-an-ocean-by-michael-harris/9781551994765/
