Background
He was born in Singapore, where his father was serving as a medical officer with the British Army during the Malayan Emergency.
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John Gormley
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After receiving elementary education in Battleford, he completed high school at Saint Thomas College and enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan. Gormley studied English and intended to apply to law school, but (in his words) "detoured into radio" in 1977, working at radio stations CKOM and later CFQC (both in Saskatoon) as a reporter and newsreader.
Career
In 1984 he was elected in the 1984 Canadian election to the House of Commons as Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for the electoral district of The Battlefords—Meadow Lake. Defeated in the 1988 election, Gormley studied law at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, graduated with distinction, and then practised employment law in Edmonton, Alberta. Since 1998, he has been host of John Gormley Live, heard weekday mornings on Rawlco Radio"s News Talk 650 CKOM in Saskatoon and News Talk 980 CJME in Regina.
In addition to hosting his radio show, he writes a weekly column in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader Post newspapers.
His first book, Left Out – Saskatchewan"s NDP and the Relentless Pursuit of Mediocrity, was published in 2010 and is a Canadian bestseller. His second book, The Gormley Papers: I"m Right and You Know lieutenant, a compilation of his newspaper columns, was published in 2013.
Achievements
Membership
In his last year as a Member of Parliament, he served as chairman of the Commons Standing Committee on Communications and Culture. Rawlco Radio"s in-house counsel since 1998, he is a member of the Law Societies of both Alberta and Saskatchewan and was appointed Queen"s Counsel in 2011.
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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada