Robyn Urback is a

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journalist and political commentator. She is known for her work at the ''

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'', and as of 2020 writes an opinion column for ''

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''.

Early life and education

Urback attended

Vaughan Road Academy Vaughan Road Academy (VRA), formerly known as Vaughan Road High School and Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute, is a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) facility that formerly operated as an International Baccalaureate high school in Toronto, Ont ...

in Toronto. While studying journalism at

Ryerson University Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met) is a public university, public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, Toronto, Garden District, although i ...

, she was presented with 2008 Rolf Lockwood Scholarship for Excellence in Business Magazine feature writing.

Career

By 2010, Urback was contributing opinion articles to

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, at first concentrating on student issues. Urback later began to contribute articles and commentary to major news outlets about a variety of topics, including women's issues, crime, local interest topics, politics and world affairs. By 2013 her work was being published regularly in the National Post. In 2016 Urback was hired as an opinion columnist and opinion section producer for the

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. Her last day there was 22 October 2019. She has been working for ''

'' since late 2019.

References

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