Michael Friscolanti is a senior writer with ''

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'' magazine, and the author of the book ''Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the U.S. Bombing that Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan''. Previously he was a reporter for the ''

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''. Friscolanti is a graduate of

Lakehead University Lakehead University is a public research university with campuses in Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Lakehead University, shortened to 'Lakehead U', is non-denominational and provincially supported. It has undergraduate programs, gradua ...

and the

Ryerson University Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, or Toronto Met), formerly Ryerson University, is a public research university located in Toronto, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District in downtown Toronto, although i ...

School of Journalism's graduate program. He grew up in

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and attended high school at Bishop Ryan Catholic High School, where he was

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of his graduating class in 1994. He was an editor at Ryerson's student newspaper '' The Eyeopener'', where he won a

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award for student journalism.

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