Michael Valpy is Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Governance, Senior Fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto and award-winning author and journalist currently working with the Globe and Mail newspaper. During his long career at the Globe, he has been a reporter, Toronto and Ottawa based national political columnist, member of the editorial board, deputy managing editor, and Africa-based correspondent during the last years of apartheid. He has won three National Newspaper Awards, co-authored three books, produced public affairs documentaries for CBC Radio, contributed chapters to several books on public policy issues, and written for Maclean’s, Time Canada, Policy Options, Shambhala Sun and Elm Street Magazines, among others.