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Revision as of 23:10, 25 February 2006 by Habsfannova (talk | contribs) (→Kinsella controversy)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mark Bourrie (Born in Toronto, Ontario in 1957) is a blogger, journalist and doctoral student at the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Canada. He has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994.
Bourrie is also an internationally-recognised amateur paleontologist, specializing in trilobites.
Kinsella controversy
He drew attention to his blog in 2006 for comments about former Liberal 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)