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Mark Bourrie (born 1957) is a Canadian blogger, journalist, possible internet stalker and a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa. Born in Toronto and now a resident of Ottawa, Ontario, he has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994.
Bourrie is also an internationally-recognised amateur paleontologist, specializing in trilobites.
Journalism career
Bourrie worked for two decades as a freelance news and feature writer, primarily for The Globe and Mail from 1981 to 1989, and the Toronto Star from 1989 to 1999. His freelance writing has also appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Winnipeg Free Press, Windsor Star, London Free Press, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, and Montreal Gazette newspapers. His magazine writing credits include Toronto Life, Ottawa City, Canadian Business, Canadian Lawyer, Law Times, Canadian Geographic, This Magazine and The Next City. His articles carried by the United Nations' Inter Press Service (IPS) have been republished by newspapers throughout the world.
He won a National Magazine Award (2000) and honorable mentions in 2001 and 2003. As well, in 2003 he was nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award in the magazine writing category. He won a Canadian Archaeological Association public writing award (1989) and several Ontario Newspaper Awards (formerly Western Ontario Newspaper Awards). His 1979 eyewitness account of an F5 tornado in Woodstock, Ontario helped earn his newspaper a National Newspaper Award certificate of merit. Most of his NMA-nominated work focussed on issues related to people wrongly accused of criminal offences or terrorism. In the CAJ-nominated article, Bourrie found new evidence that a man hanged in Ottawa in 1936 was probably innocent.
Kinsella controversy
He drew attention to his blog in 2006 for comments about former Liberal Party of Canada aide Warren Kinsella. The post read:
Yet another Warren Kinsella quote today in the National Post, this time about Tory strategy at the end of the campaign. Kinsella, who hates Paul Martin much more than he loves the Liberal Party, seems delighted in the destruction of Martin's government. He hopes to have his own flagging political career revive when there's a Liberal leadership change. It's not going to happen. Both Liberals and Tories now know that Kinsella's loyalty is to Kinsella. And they remember Kinsella was executive assistant to Public Works minister David "I'm entitled to my entitlements" Dingwall. Kinsella was the guy who foisted Chuck Guite on the bureaucracy. He was a key actor in the sponsorship kickback scandal. And that scandal is about half the reason Paul Martin is on the skids.
Kinsella threatened a lawsuit for libel, saying that the post insinuated his involvement in the sponsorship scandal. Bourrie clarified the statement on the blog, changing the last "he" to Guite and explaining he did not believe Kinsella was part of the kickback scheme (Jan. 26). Kinsella, however, filed a statement of claim, which was settled when Bourrie issued an unqualified apology on his site, which read:
"The manner in which my January 14, 2006 blog entry was worded made it seem that Mr. Kinsella had been a party to illegal conduct when this was clearly not the case. I apologize without reservation to Mr. Kinsella for that error on my part."
Works by Bourrie
- Chicago of the North (Annan and Sons 1993)
- Ninety Fathoms Down (Dundurn 1995)
- The Parliament Buildings (Dundurn 1996)
- By Reason of Insanity (Dundurn 1997)
- Parliament (text of Malak Karsh's photo essay on Parliament Hill) (Key Porter 1999)
- Hemp (Key Porter 2003)
- True Canadian Stories of the Great Lakes (Key Porter/Prospero 2004)
- Many a Midnight Ship (Key Porter/University of Michigan Press 2005)