Neil Reynolds

Career

Born in Kingston, Ontario in 1940, Reynolds dropped out of high school and became a journalist. After working as a journalist at the Sarnia Observer and the London Free Press he became city editor of the Toronto Star, leaving in 1974 to join the Kingston Whig-Standard, becoming its editor-in-chief in 1978. Reynolds left Kingston to became editor-in-chief of the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and Saint John Times-Globe in 1992.

He was hired by Conrad Black as editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen in 1996 and remained there until 2000 when he became editor-in-chief at the Vancouver Sun until 2003.

Reynolds ended his career as a columnist for the Report on Business section of the Globe and Mail, submitting what would be his final column in the summer of 2012.

Achievements

• He won 13.4% of the vote, which was the highest percentage vote ever garnered by a Libertarian Party of Canada candidate, either then or since.

Politics

Although he had been a supporter of the New Democratic Party in earlier years, he entered politics as the Libertarian Party of Canada"s candidate in the 1982 by-election in the riding of Leeds–Grenville. In May 1982, he became the party"s leader, but resigned in 1983 in order to return to his post as Editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard.