The Globe and Mail

Mark Hume is a National Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver, writing news and feature stories on a daily basis about his home province of British Columbia. His weekly column, which often challenges the orthodoxy on environmental issues, appears every Monday.

Born in Victoria, Mr. Hume was editor of the University of Victoria student newspaper before working as a reporter for local dailies in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa. He spent three years based in Yellowknife, covering the Arctic, before returning to the West Coast where, as an investigative reporter for The Vancouver Sun, he wrote a series of more than 50 stories that exposed criminal activities tied to NDP fund raising. The scandal, which became known as ‘Bingogate,' led to the conviction of a former cabinet minister for fraud and the political fallout caused the resignation of a premier. Mr. Hume also wrote a special 16-page newspaper supplement that explored the environmental threats facing Georgia Strait. He helped launch the National Post, serving as the founding Vancouver bureau chief, before joining The Globe in 2003.

He has won numerous national and provincial journalism awards and both the Haig-Brown and the BC Booksellers Choice prizes for two of his natural history books, River of the Angry Moon and Birds of the Raincoast.

Mr. Hume played rugby for 15 years, coached girls soccer teams, has helped science journalist Margaret Munro raise their two daughters, Emma and Claire, ties his own flies and knows where to go in B.C. to catch some very big trout.