L. Ian MacDonald (born 1947) is a

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writer, broadcaster, and diplomat.

Biography

MacDonald graduated from

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(Loyola) in 1969 with an honours degree in

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. He has been a columnist for the

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and the defunct Montreal Daily News, and has been a sessional lecturer at

. He wrote his first book in 1984, "Mulroney: The Making of the Prime Minister", a bestseller that covered

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's rise from boyhood to

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. MacDonald served as chief speechwriter for Mulroney from 1985–88. He served as Minister of Public Affairs at the Canadian Embassy in

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from 1992–94. MacDonald has published five more books. all with McGill-Queen's University Press, most recently "Politics, People & Potpourri", selected by CBC as "one of the best political reads" of 2009, and "inside Politics", a collection published in 2018. He writes frequently for Canadian newspapers and news sites. Now Editor and publisher of "Policy" Magazine, a bi-monthly on Canadian politics and public policy, he was previously editor from 2002 to 2012, of ''Policy Options'', published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy. He has two daughters—Grace, born in 1990, and Zara, born in 2009. He was enshrined in the Concordia University Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 as part, as equipment manager, of the Loyola College Warriors 1968 hockey team. Their Cinderella story (15 win, 1 loss) season took them to the National Championships, where after beating #1

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in double overtime, they lost in the University Cup final 5–4 to the

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Major works

* ''Mulroney: The Making of the Prime Minister'', by L. Ian MacDonald, 1984. * ''Free Trade: Risks and Rewards'', edited by L. Ian MacDonald, 2000. * ''From Bourassa to Bourassa: Wilderness to Restoration'', by L. Ian MacDonald, 2002. * ''Leo: A Life'', by Leo Kolber, with L. Ian MacDonald, 2003. * "Politics, People & Potpourri", by L. Ian MacDonald, 2009. * "Inside Politics", by L. Ian MacDonald, 2018

References

External links

L. Ian MacDonald's website
1947 births Living people Writers from Montreal Canadian non-fiction writers Loyola College (Montreal) alumni Anglophone Quebec people Montreal Gazette people {{canada-nonfiction-writer-stub