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Revision as of 16:29, 25 February 2006 by 70.25.91.205 (talk) (m. typo fix)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mark Bourrie is an author, journalist, blogger and doctoral student in history at the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Canada. Bourrie was born in Toronto in 1957. He has a Bachelor's degree in history from the University of Waterloo (1991), an undergraduate diploma in public policy and administration from the University of Guelph (1995), a Master's degree in journalism from Carleton University (2004), and is now (2006) completing his thesis on Canada's World War II press censorship system.
He is the author of: Chicago of the North (Annan and Sons 1993;) Ninety Fathoms Down (Dundurn 1995); The Parliament Buildings (Dundurn 1996); By Reason of Insanity (Dundurn 1997); Parliament (text of Malak Karsh's photo essay on Parliament Hill) (Key Porter 1999); Hemp (Key Porter 2003); True Canadian Stories of the Great Lakes (Key Porter/Prospero 2004); Many a Midnight Ship (Key Porter/University of Michigan Press 2005).
Bourrie worked for two decades as a freelance news and feature writer, primarily for the Globe and Mail (1981-1989) and the Toronto Star (1989-1999). His freelance writing also appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Winnipeg Free Press, Windsor Star, London Free Press, Ottawa Citizen, and Montreal Gazette. He has written for Toronto Life, Ottawa City magazine, Canadian Business, Canadian Lawyer, Canadian Geographic and The Next City.
He won a National Magazine Award (2000) and honorable mentions in 2001 and 2003. As well, in 2003 he was nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award in the magazine writing category. He won a Canadian Archaeological Association public writing award (1989) and several Ontario Newspaper Awards (formerly Western Ontario Newspaper Awards). His eyewitness account of an F5 tornado in Woodstock, Ont. (1979) helped earn his newspaper a National Newspaper Award certificate of merit.
he has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994.
Bourrie is also an internationally-recognised amateur paleontologist, specializing in trilobites.
Kinsella lawsuit re: blog
In 2006, former Liberal aide Warren Kinsella, who campaigned in that winter's Canadian general election against incumbent Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin, sued Bourrie over a blog post. Kinsella, a Toronto-based lawyer, lobbyist and author, was, on television panels and on his popular blog, a vocal critic of Martin. Bourrie's post read:
Kinsella
Yet another Warren Kinsella quote today in the National Post, this time about Tory strategy at the end of the campaign. Kinsella, who hates Paul Martin much more than he loves the Liberal Party, seems delighted in the destruction of Martin's government. He hopes to have his own flagging political career revive when there's a Liberal leadership change. It's not going to happen. Both Liberals and Tories now know that Kinsella's loyalty is to Kinsella. And they remember Kinsella was executive assistant to Public Works minister David "I'm entitled to my entitlements" Dingwall. Kinsella was the guy who foisted Chuck Guite on the bureaucracy. He was a key actor in the sponsorship kickback scandal. And that scandal is about half the reason Paul Martin is on the skids.
After Kinsella threatened a lawsuit (Feb. 23), Bourrie clarified the statement on the blog, changing the last "he" to "Guite" and explaining he did not believe Kinsella was part of the kickback scheme (Jan. 26). Kinsella, however, filed a statement of claim against Bourrie for the entire content of the post (Feb. 14). After negotiations with Kinsella, Bourrie issued an apology on his site (Feb. 22), which read: "The manner in which my January 14, 2006 blog entry was worded made it seem that Mr. Kinsella had been a party to illegal conduct when this was clearly not the case. I apologize without reservation to Mr. Kinsella for that error on my part." He did not retract any other aspect of the post.
In recent years, Kinsella has threatened to sue at least six bloggers over comments made about him.