John Ibbitson

JOHN IBBITSON is one of Canada's best known and most respected journalists and authors. Since arriving in 1999 at the Globe and Mail , he has served as Washington bureau chief, Ottawa bureau chief, chief political writer and, since 2015, writer-at-large. He co-authored Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, which has been translated into nine languages and is sold around the world, as well as the national bestseller The Big Shift, both with Darrell Bricker. He is also the author...See more

JOHN IBBITSON is one of Canada's best known and most respected journalists and authors. Since arriving in 1999 at the Globe and Mail , he has served as Washington bureau chief, Ottawa bureau chief, chief political writer and, since 2015, writer-at-large. He co-authored Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, which has been translated into nine languages and is sold around the world, as well as the national bestseller The Big Shift, both with Darrell Bricker. He is also the author of Stephen Harper , the bestselling and award-winning biography of Canada's 22nd prime minister. His writing for fiction includes The Landing , which won the 2008 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. In March 2018, on its tenth anniversary, the book was republished by Kids Can Press. John is the general editor of the The Nation's Paper , which will be published by Signal in October 2024. John Ibbitson lives and writes in Ottawa. See less