'Andrew Coyne' is a
Canadian journalist and
columnist with the ''
National Post''. He studied at the
University of Toronto's University of Trinity College, receiving a
BA in Economics and History, and he received his
Master of Science degree in Economics from the
London School of Economics.
After a stint as a columnist for the ''
Financial Post'' from 1985 to 1991, Coyne joined the editorial board of ''
The Globe and Mail''. While at the ''Globe'', Coyne won two consecutive National Newspaper Awards for editorial writing in 1991 and 1992.
[1] He had a regular column in the ''Globe'' between 1994 and 1996, when he joined Southam News (now CanWest News Service) as a nationally syndicated columnist. When the ''
National Post''—the successor to the ''Financial Post''—launched in 1998, Coyne became the paper's national affairs columnist. His work has also appeared in ''
The Wall Street Journal'', ''
National Review'', ''
Saturday Night'', the Canadian edition of ''
Time'', and other publications. He is also a regular member of ''
The National's'' weekly political panel.
Coyne defies traditional Canadian ideological labels, and has said that he considers "left" and "right" to be "tribes" of "self-quarantine."
[2] He endorses a strong
Federal government [3], more market based economic solutions
[4], and a stronger role for Canada in the
War on Terrorism [5]. Coyne is also a proponent of
proportional representation in
Canada's House of Commons [6].
He is the brother of actress
Susan Coyne. Their father was
James Coyne, who was governor of the
Bank of Canada from 1955 to
1961. He is also the cousin of constitutional lawyer
Deborah Coyne.
Links
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Andrew Coyne's blog
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Coyne's National Post columnist page