John Ivison is a Scottish Canadian journalist and author. He is an

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-based political columnist for the ''

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'' and Ottawa Bureau Chief. Raised in

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, he worked as a reporter for ''

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'' newspaper in

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and as deputy business editor of ''

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''. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, McMaster University and the University of Western Ontario, where he earned a Masters of Arts in Journalism. He moved to

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in 1998, as part of the team that launched the ''

''. After five years at the Financial Post, Ivison moved to the news section of the National Post, where he has covered provincial politics in

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and federal politics in Ottawa since 2003. Ivison has appeared as a panelist on various Canadian public affairs programs, including the

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's ''

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and Cross-Country Check-Up, CTV's Power Play'' with Don Martin and ''

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'' with Evan Solomon and CPAC's Prime Time Politics with Peter Van Dusen. Ivison is the author of ''Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister'' (2019), a biography of

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into the last year of his government's first mandate. He is also the author of a fictional novel, ''The Riotous Passions of Robbie Burns''. Ivison has written for diverse publications including the National Enquirer and in 2020 covered Canada for

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. In April 2022, he was officially sanctioned by the Russian Federation for articles opposing the invasion of Ukraine. Ivison was the co-founder, together with Senator

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, and first Executive Director of the Scottish Society of Ottawa (2012 - 2017), a Scottish cultural not-for-profit organization, and hosts of Hogman-eh!, Ottawa's Scottish style New Year's Eve celebration. Ivison is married to Canadian diplomat Dana Cryderman. He has four children, James, Fiona, William and Mollie.

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