Christie Blatchford is a general columnist who spends most of her time gratefully indulging her interest in the criminal courts, which she has covered, off and on, as a reporter for about 25 years.
Her chronological career path saw her start at The Globe (first as a general assignment reporter, then as a sportswriter and columnist), move to the Toronto Star (general assignment and columnist), the Toronto Sun (humor columnist, then general columnist) and the National Post (general columnist), before returning to The Globe and Mail.
She won the 1999 National Newspaper Award for column-writing, and last year, her book about Canadian soldiers -- Fifteen Days, Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army -- won the Governor-General's Award for non-fiction.
Christie lives in downtown Toronto with her white bull terrier, Obie, and a cat named Ojis.
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Friendly fire assertion insulting, offensive to slain soldiers’ families
‘These men were heroes and deserve a lot better than this’
