Randall Denley is a Canadian journalist and politician who ran as the Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate for Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in

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in 2011 election and 2014 election. He writes for the ''

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'' and ''

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'' as a columnist."Making the jump to politics"
''

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'', September 3, 2011.

Background

Denley was born

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, Denley graduated from the

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with a journalism degree in 1973.

Writing career

Denley spent several years as a journalist and editor for the ''

Owen Sound Sun Times ''The Sun Times'' is a local newspaper which services the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound area in the Canadian province of Ontario. Its headquarters are in Owen Sound. The ''Times'' newspaper was founded in 1853 and ''The Sun'' newspaper was founded in 18 ...

'' before joining the ''Ottawa Citizen'' as a journalist in 1983. In 1992, he moved from the regular journalism beat to a political column with the paper, writing about both municipal and provincial politics. Denley's first novel, a murder mystery titled ''Necessary Victims'', was serialized in the ''Citizen'' in 2004. In 2006, he published ''The Perfect Candidate'', a satire of local municipal politics in which Will Hacker, a former hockey player turned radio talk show host, is bribed by local developers to run a fake campaign for mayor of Ottawa."London native marries reality, fiction in latest book". ''

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'', December 21, 2010. His third novel, a murder mystery titled ''One Dead Sister'', was published in 2010. Denley now publishes the occasional op-ed in newspapers like the ''

''.

Provincial politics

Denley took a leave of absence from the ''Citizen'' in 2011 to run as an Ontario Progressive Conservative Party candidate in

for the 2011 provincial election. He briefly returned to the ''Citizen'' as an editorial writer after losing the election to incumbent MPP

Bob Chiarelli Robert Chiarelli (born September 24, 1941) is a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who served from 1987 to 1997 and again from 2010 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Ottawa West and Ottawa W ...

, but retired from the paper in 2012."Candidates in Ottawa West-Nepean riding share a fraught political past"
''

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'', May 18, 2014. He ran again in the 2014 election, again losing to Chiarelli."Liberal Bob Chiarelli holds seat in Ottawa West-Nepean"

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, June 12, 2014.

Electoral record

References

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Randall Denley
Living people Canadian columnists Canadian male novelists Canadian mystery writers 21st-century Canadian novelists Ottawa Citizen people Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidates in Ontario provincial elections Writers from London, Ontario Writers from Ottawa 21st-century Canadian male writers Canadian male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-novelist-stub