Background
Frum was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Barbara Frum, a journalist, and Murray Frum, a real estate developer.
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Frum attended Havergal College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University, Montreal in 1984.
Career
Her brother David Frum is a political author and journalist, and was a speech writer for George West. Bush and helped coin the phase "Axis of Evil". Another brother, Matthew Frum, was adopted and is of aboriginal ancestry. In June 2010, she received an Honorary Doctorate from Yeshiva University.
She has authored two books, Linda Frum"s Guide to Canadian Universities (1987, with an updated edition published in 1990) and Barbara Frum: A Daughter"s Memoir (1996).
Frum is a former contributing editor to Maclean"s, and was a columnist with the National Post from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2006 to 2007. She has served as a volunteer for many community organizations.
She is honorary patron of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. In 2006, she was chair of the Women"s Division of the United Jewish Appeal.
On August 27, 2009 she was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
She was elected Chair of the Conservative Senate Caucus in October 2015. She currently serves on the Social Affairs, Science and Technology committee, the Rules committee, the Human Rights committee and the Senate"s Conflict of Interest Committee. In 2012, Minister Jason Kenney appointed Senator Frum Company-Chair of the Advisory Council for the 2013 Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research.
In 2013, Minister Ambrose appointed Frum to sit on a task force to promote the participation of women on corporate boards.
The dinner set records for both attendance and fundraising: 4,000 people attended and $5.7m was raised for the Stephen J. Harper Bird Sanctuary Visitor and Education Centre in Hula Valley, Israel.
Politics
In 1996 she won a Gemini Award for Best Social-Political Documentary Program for the film Mississippi Conceptions. She has a Conservative affiliation and represents Ontario.
Membership
She is a member of the Board of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She is a former vice-chair of the board of governors of Upper Canada College and a former member of the board of the Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. She is a past board member of the Canada Israel Committee, the Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation, Soulpepper Theatre, and the Ontario Arts Council.
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