Randall Denley is a Canadian journalist who ran as the Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate for Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in

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in 2011 election and 2014 election. He writes for the ''

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'' and ''

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'' as a columnist."Making the jump to politics"
''

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'', September 3, 2011.

Background

Denley was born

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, Denley graduated from the

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with a journalism degree in 1973.

Writing career

Denley spent several years as a journalist and editor for the '' Owen Sound Sun Times'' before joining the ''Ottawa Citizen'' as a journalist in 1983. In 1992, he moved from the regular journalism beat to a political column with the paper, writing about both municipal and provincial politics. Denley's first novel, a murder mystery titled ''Necessary Victims'', was serialized in the ''Citizen'' in 2004. In 2006, he published ''The Perfect Candidate'', a satire of local municipal politics in which Will Hacker, a former hockey player turned radio talk show host, is bribed by local developers to run a fake campaign for mayor of Ottawa."London native marries reality, fiction in latest book". ''

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'', December 21, 2010. His third novel, a murder mystery titled ''One Dead Sister'', was published in 2010. Denley now publishes the occasional op-ed in newspapers like the ''

''.

Provincial politics

Denley took a leave of absence from the ''Citizen'' in 2011 to run as an

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candidate in

for the 2011 provincial election. He briefly returned to the ''Citizen'' as an editorial writer after losing the election to incumbent MPP

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, but retired from the paper in 2012."Candidates in Ottawa West-Nepean riding share a fraught political past"
''

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'', May 18, 2014. He ran again in the 2014 election, again losing to Chiarelli."Liberal Bob Chiarelli holds seat in Ottawa West-Nepean"

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, June 12, 2014.

Electoral record

References

External links

Randall Denley
Living people Canadian columnists Canadian male novelists Canadian mystery writers 21st-century Canadian novelists Ottawa Citizen people Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidates in Ontario provincial elections Writers from London, Ontario 21st-century Canadian male writers Canadian male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) Novelists from Ottawa {{Canada-novelist-stub