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Thomas Walkom

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Thomas Walkom is national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star.[1]

Prior to his current position, he was the Star's Queen's Park columnist covering Ontario politics for eight years, including the governments of Premiers Bob Rae and Mike Harris. Walkom wrote a book, Rae Days: the rise and follies of the NDP about the Rae government.[1]

His full name is Thomas Lawrence Walkom, and he was born in 1950.[2] In the 1980s, Walkom was a parliamentary reporter for The Globe and Mail based in Ottawa and then served as the newspaper's bureau chief in Tokyo.[1] He has won two National Newspaper Awards for foreign reporting and column writing.[1] During the Russo-Ukraine War, Walkom published a number of articles which were critical of Canada's support for Ukraine.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Thomas Walkom | Authors | Toronto Star". thestar.com.
  2. ^ Walkom, Thomas L. (Thomas Lawrence). "Rae days" – via www.torontopubliclibrary.ca.