Isobel Warren (born May 7, 1935) is a

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Education

She attended

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(now Toronto Metropolitan University) and the

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Career

Her journalism background is in newspapers and magazines, radio and television. She was founder of "Hands Magazine", at that time Canada's only national craft publication, and served as its editor throughout the 1980s. Assignments have included: Editor,

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News; Producer, The Senior Report (

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); Producer, ''On Top of the World'' (national TV series.) She writes regularly for a variety of publications in Canada and the U.S., including the ''

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'', ''Good Times'', ''Forever Young'' and ''TravelScoop'', and has appeared in the ''

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), the '' Cloverdale Reporter'' and the ''

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'', as well as in-flights, ''Atmosphere'' and ''Airborn''. She was co-founder of the Travel Media Association of Canada. She is the author of ''On the go at 50 Plus'', a handbook for mature travellers published in 1995, and co-author (with her husband, Milan Chvostek) of ''Florida, Eh? A Canadian Guide to the Sunshine State''. She writes a monthly travel column and many articles for the magazine ''Good Times'', a Canadian 50-plus magazine.

Personal life

She was married to the late Canadian television producer

Milan Chvostek Milan Chvostek (October 4, 1932 – November 8, 2018) was a producer/director at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He worked on ''A Case for the Court'', '' The Lively Arts'', '' This Hour Has Seven Days'', ''Science Magazine'' and the CBC's ...

, and is the mother of computer systems analyst Paul Chvostek and singer-songwriter

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References

External links

Isobel Warren's main site

Travel Media Association of Canada

Good Times Magazine

Annabelle Chvostek's site

IT Canada's main site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Isobel 1935 births Living people Canadian columnists Toronto Metropolitan University alumni Canadian feminists Canadian women journalists Canadian women columnists Canadian women non-fiction writers