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Canadian journalist

Haroon Siddiqui, CM OOnt is an Indo-Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and editorial page editor emeritus of the Toronto Star.

He has reported from more than 50 countries and shaped media coverage of Canada for fifty years through ten prime ministers.

Early life and career

Born in India, Siddiqui arrived in Canada in and briefly lived in Montreal and Toronto before moving to Brandon, Manitoba, to work at The Brandon Sun upon the recommendation of Clark Davey, then-managing editor of the Globe and Mail.^[1] In a interivew, Siddiqui stated that prior to taking the job, he knew nothing about Brandon other than the fact that "it was very, very cold."

Siddiqui worked there for the next ten years, first as a reporter, then as editor, at a paper that he deemed "the Cadillac of small newspapers in Canada" in his memoir.^[1] In , at the age of 36, he was offered jobs from Canada's two leading newspapers, the