Background
Jeffrey Simpson was born on February 17, 1949 in New York, United States, in the family of Robert Lawrence and Eve Cloud (Matheson) Simpson. They moved to Canada when he was 10 years old.
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1980
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1994
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Jeffrey Simpson was born on February 17, 1949 in New York, United States, in the family of Robert Lawrence and Eve Cloud (Matheson) Simpson. They moved to Canada when he was 10 years old.
Jeffrey was educated at the University of Toronto Schools. He graduated from Queen's University in 1971 in History and Political Science.
While at Queen's he worked for the campus radio station CFRC. In 1972–1973, he worked as a Parliamentary Intern in Ottawa where he worked for Ed Broadbent. A year later, he joined The Globe and Mail newspaper.
In 1977, Jeffrey became a member of the paper's Ottawa bureau, and eighteen months later he was named The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau chief. From 1981–1983, Simpson served as The Globe and Mail's European correspondent based in London. Since January, 1984 he has written a critically acclaimed daily column on national affairs.
Jeffrey has written numerous magazine articles for such publications as Saturday Night, Report on Business Magazine, the Journal of Canadian Studies and Queen's Quarterly. He has spoken at dozens of major conferences in Canada and internationally on a variety of domestic and international issues.
Mr. Simpson is a frequent and enthusiastic participant in regular political debate on radio or television, in French and in English. He has been a guest lecturer at such universities as Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Brigham Young, Johns Hopkins, Maine, California plus more than a dozen universities in Canada.
Simpson has been a member of the board of trustees at Queen's University; the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia; the advisory board of the Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta; the editorial board of The Queen's Quarterly, and the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto. He has been vice-chairman of the City of Ottawa Library Board.
Jeffrey has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes-the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism and the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian. In January 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Simpson is also an outspoken critic of the monarchy of Canada and has written in favour of republicanism in his column.
On June 15, 1974 Jeffrey married Wendy Elizabeth Bryans, with whom he has three children: Tait, Danielle, and Brook.
