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Published April 19, 2021 Updated April 20, 2021. Readers can also interact with The Globe on Facebook and Twitter. I'm a print subscriber. Last week, Canada lost a great man. More accurately, Twitter lost an active member. Andrew Coyne decided to stop using the site—but don’t worry, he’s still alive. Do you know who Andrew Coyne is? He’s a writer and a talking head. He had a lot of Twitter followers. Decide for yourself whether you care about his internet activity. Andrew Coyne has resigned as editor of editorials and comment for the National Post over a disagreement over Postmedia’s endorsement of the Conservatives, although he’s staying on as a columnist, he announced on Twitter this morning. In a string of tweets, Coyne explained that he disagreed with Postmedia executives over the endorsement, while his former.

James Andrew Coyne^[1] (born December 23, 1960)^[2] is a Canadian columnist with The Globe and Mail and a member of the At Issue panel on CBC's The National. Previously, he has been national editor for Maclean's and a columnist with National Post.

Early life and education[edit]

Coyne was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Hope Meribeth Cameron (née Stobie) and James Elliott Coyne, who was governor of the Bank of Canada from 1955 to 1961.^[2][3] His paternal great-grandfather was historian and lawyer James Henry Coyne. His sister is actress Susan Coyne. He is also the cousin of constitutional lawyer Deborah Coyne, who is the mother of Pierre Trudeau's youngest child.

Coyne graduated from Kelvin High School in Winnipeg.^[4] Coyne studied at the University of Manitoba where he became the editor of The Manitoban student newspaper.^[5][6] He also spent two years reporting for the Winnipeg Sun.^[6] In 1981, Coyne transferred to the University of Toronto'sTrinity College,^[7] where his classmates included Jim Balsillie, Malcolm Gladwell, Tony Clement, Nigel Wright, Patricia Pearson, Atom Egoyan, and author and political strategist John Duffy.^[8] He received a BA in economics and history from Trinity. Coyne then went to the London School of Economics, where he received his master's degree in economics.^[6]

Career[edit]

After a six-year period as a Financial Post columnist from 1985 to 1991, Coyne joined The Globe and Mail's editorial board.^[6] There, Coyne won two consecutive National Newspaper Awards for his work.^[9] He had a regular column in the Globe between 1994 and 1996, when he joined Southam News (later CanWest News Service) as a nationally syndicated columnist.^[7]

Coyne became a columnist with the National Post – the successor to the Financial Post – when it launched in 1998.^[10] Coyne left the Post in 2007 to work at Maclean's.^[10]

Coyne left Maclean's in 2011 to return to the Post as a columnist.^[10] In December 2014, he was appointed to the position of Editor, Editorials and Comment.^[11] After years of writing a weekly Saturday column, Coyne's contribution was absent from the edition published just prior to the 2015 Canadian federal election, because the column he wanted to submit called for a vote against the Conservative Party of Canada while the Post's editorial board had endorsed the Conservatives.^[12][10] While Coyne was the head of the editorial board, the decision to endorse the Conservatives was made by the newspaper's publisher Paul Godfrey.^[10] On election day, Coyne announced that as a result of the paper refusing to run his election column, he was resigning as the Post's editorial page and comment editor but would remain as a columnist.^[10][13]

Coyne has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Saturday Night, the now-defunct Canadian edition of Time, and other publications.^[6] Coyne has also written for the conservative magazine The Next City.^[7]

Coyne has been a longtime member of the At Issue panel on CBC's The National,^[5] where he appeared as early as 2012 in the day of Peter Mansbridge.^[14]

In November 2019, Coyne announced that he would henceforth be employed by The Globe and Mail.^[15]

Views[edit]

Coyne has said that he considers the political labels 'left' and 'right' to be 'tribes' of 'self-quarantine.'^[16] He has endorsed a strong federal government,^[17] more market based economic solutions,^[18] and a stronger role for Canada in the War on Terror.^[19] Coyne is also a proponent of proportional representation in the House of Commons of Canada^[20] and believes Canada should remain a constitutional monarchy rather than become a republic.^[21] He advocated for forgiveness to move on from previous mistakes when politicians get into their news for their misdeeds.^[22]

Honours[edit]

Scholastic[edit]

Honorary degrees

Awards[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Controversial Canadian; James Elliott Coyne'. The New York Times. 5 July 1961.
2. ^ ^abLumley, Elizabeth (2004). Canadian Who's Who 2004. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 287. ISBN978-0-8020-8892-5.
3. ^'Ottawa Citizen - Google News Archive Search'. news.google.com. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
4. ^'Kelvin High School celebrates 100 years'. CBC News. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
5. ^ ^abSchellenberg, Carlyn (29 December 2014). 'For the students'. The Manitoban. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
6. ^ ^abcde'U of M announces recipients of honorary degrees'. Winnipeg Free Press. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
7. ^ ^abcDevoe Kim, Cheryl (9 June 1997). 'Mighty Mouth'. Ryerson Review of Journalism. Archived from the original on 11 November 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
8. ^(subscription required)'Who is Nigel Wright, the man who bailed out Mike Duffy?'. The Globe and Mail. 19 May 2013.
9. ^'National Newspaper Awards'. Canadian Newspaper Association. Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2006.
10. ^ ^abcdefBradshaw, James (19 October 2015). 'Andrew Coyne exits editor role at National Post over endorsement'. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
11. ^'National Post Appoints Andrew Coyne Editor, Editorials and Comment (press release)'. PostMedia. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
12. ^Brown, Jesse. 'Andrew Coyne v The National Post.' Canadaland. 16 Oct. 2015. Web. 18 Oct. 2015. <http://canadalandshow.com/article/andrew-coyne-v-national-post>
13. ^'Andrew Coyne resigns as National Post comment editor after paper rejects election column'. National Post. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
14. ^Bowden, James (20 October 2012). ''In Vogue to Prorogue?' CBC's At-Issue Panel on Prorogation'. Parliamentum. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
15. ^Coyne, Andrew (6 November 2019). 'Thread'. Twitter.
16. ^Coyne, Andrew (26 August 2002). 'I read you, but ...' Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
17. ^Coyne, Andrew. 'There was a time'. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
18. ^Coyne, Andrew (25 November 2006). 'Fiscal conservatism, then and now'. National Post. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
19. ^Coyne, Andrew (19 March 2003). 'PM's decision means moral free ride is over'. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
20. ^Coyne, Andrew (23 February 2005). 'PR: as simple as one person, one vote'. Archived from the original on 30 August 2008.
21. ^Coyne, Andrew (8 July 2011). 'We're all in the royal family'. Maclean's Magazine.
22. ^Comment, Full (8 November 2013). 'Andrew Coyne: 'I am so sorry. I am sorry in a hundred inadmissible ways' | National Post'. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
23. ^https://news.umanitoba.ca/honorary-degree-recipients-recognized-for-innovation-philanthropy-and-enhancing-well-being-of-manitobans-and-canadians/
24. ^https://ppforum.ca/awards/hyman-solomon-award/

External links[edit]

• Andrew Coyne on Twitter
• Proportional Representation: Lessons from Ontario - keynote speech at Fair Vote CanadaAGM

Then there was the Globe and Mail, with a Conservative endorsement so confused that perhaps the most charitable interpretation is that editor-in-chief David Walmsley was forced to write it with a gun to his head. Walmsley insists it was all his idea, but memories of the 2014 Ontario election are still fresh, when the Globe’s owners reportedly overruled their editorial board and changed their endorsement of Liberal Kathleen Wynne to an endorsement of Conservative Tim Hudak.

But the most curious case on a pre-election weekend rife with discussion of newspaper endorsements and the process followed to arrive at them may be unfolding at the National Post, where comment and editorial editor Andrew Coyne is at the heart of the Post’s second censorship scandal of this long campaign.

On Friday evening Canadaland broke the story that a column by Coyne, in which he reportedly endorsed a party other than the Conservatives, had been pulled from the Saturday edition of the newspaper at the last minute. Although Coyne the editor had reportedly signed off on the Post’s official endorsement, which joined most other Postmedia papers in endorsing the Harper government, he had reportedly also written a dissenting opinion in the form of a column he scheduled for publication on Saturday.

That column was never published and Coyne, a prolific Twitter user and political junkie, has not tweeted or spoken publicly since Thursday evening. That has led to speculation that his column was censored, and that he may be planning to resign from the Post.

Ricochet reached out to both Coyne and Anne Marie Owens, the Post’s editor-in-chief, for comment. Neither responded immediately, but we will update this story with their responses if and when they do.

Meanwhile Twitter users have noted his absence, and some cheekily raised the possibility he’s been kidnapped by Postmedia’s president and CEO, Paul Godfrey.

Amber Alert issued for Andrew Coyne, last seen getting into a white van registered to a P. Godfrey. #cdnpoli

His last activity on Twitter was to retweet the one section (out of six) of the Post’s editorial endorsement that was heavily critical of the Harper record, focusing on democratic accountability.

Surprisingly, this isn’t the first time the Post has been gripped by a censorship scandal during this campaign. Back in August, a flighty but critical piece about Stephen Harper’s hair from acclaimed author Margaret Atwood was published, removed from the newspaper’s website for several hours, and then republished with several passages taking aim at the Harper government’s scandals removed.

At that time Canadaland reported what most assumed, that the decision to pull the column was made by the National Post’s management, not editors.

Coyne was the editor responsible for that piece, as he is now for his own column, but it appears clear that someone else was calling the shots in both cases. Back then Coyne also disappeared from Twitter for a time, and now, on the eve of a crucial national election, he is once again nowhere to be found.

It’s one thing for newspaper owners to call the shots on editorial endorsements, as they obviously do now, but there are more serious issues of editorial integrity involved when a publication's owners seemingly make a habit of censoring their own columnists, and even editors, for criticizing the government at inopportune times.

We’ll update this story as more details become available, but for now if anyone has information on the whereabouts of Andrew Coyne, please contact us. You can tell him the internet is worried.

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