Thomas Walkom is national affairs columnist for the ''

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''. Previously, he was the Star's Queen's Park columnist covering Ontario politics for eight years, including the governments of Premiers

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and Mike Harris. Walkom wrote a book, ''Rae Days: the rise and follies of the NDP'' about the Rae government. His full name is Thomas Lawrence Walkom, and he was born in 1950. In the 1980s, Walkom was a parliamentary reporter for ''

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'' based in Ottawa and then served as the newspaper's bureau chief in

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. He has won two National Newspaper Awards for foreign reporting and column writing. During the Russo-Ukraine War, Walkom published a number of articles which were critical of Canada's support for Ukraine.

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