Peter C. Newman

In the ever-changing worlds of business and politics, there isn't a topic or trend that escapes the watchful eye of Peter C. Newman. He is the most cussed and discussed journalist in the country: so much so that the number of his entries in Google now exceeds 12 million. "I am neutral," he says of his opinions. "I attack everybody."

Newman's 24 books have sold more than two million copies. His 2005 book, The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister was one of the most controversial books ever published in Canada. His latest book, Izzy, tells the unauthorized story of Canadian media mogul Izzy Asper. Newman is currently working on his latest biography on Michael Ignatieff, the leader of the Liberal Party.

The recipient of seven honorary doctorates, Newman has won every journalism award there is and has been appointed first an Officer and then promoted to a Companion in the Order of Canada. His career has included a stint as a magician at Eaton's Toytown, service in the Canadian Navy as a full-ranking Captain, being the Editor in Chief of Canada's largest newspaper, The Toronto Star and Editor of Maclean's, Canada's national magazine, which he turned into a newsweekly.

Newman's anecdote-filled, take-no prisoners speeches combine his acid comments ("even when cabinet ministers admit they've lied nobody believes them") with his humour and his optimistic outlook for the Canada he loves ("To the rest of the world Canada has the mandate of heaven, and that is a fact more Canadians ought to appreciate.") His tough yet amusing question and answer sessions are often the highlight of his appearances.

• The Dumbing Down Of Canadian Journalism

• The Canadian Revolution: How We Joined The 21st Century

• Why The 21st Century Will Belong To Canada

• I would not hesitate to recommend you to any organization who may be looking for a true Canadian authority of business, politics and culture.
  Ernst & Young

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  November 2011

  When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada

  The May 2, 2011 federal election turned Canadian governance upside down and inside out. In his newest and possibly most controversial book, bestselling author Peter C. Newman argues that the Harper majority will alter Canada so much that we may have to change the country's name. But the most lasting impact of the Tory win will be the demise of the Liberal Party, which ruled Canada for seven of the last ten decades and literally made the country what it is. Newman chronicles, in bloody detail, the de-construction of the Grits' once unassailable fortress and anatomizes the ways in which the arrogance embedded in the Liberal genetic code slowly poisoned the party's progressive impulses.

  
  
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  October 2010

  Mavericks

  Peter C. Newman's poison pen has lodged itself firmly in the viscera of the Canadian elite. In Mavericks, he has selected his most evocative writing about those Canadians who run against the grain on the grandest scale, including Barbara Amiel and her husband, Conrad Black. Some of the other characters who populate this volume include Garth Drabinsky, the Eaton boys, Louis Riel, Robert Campeau and Peter Nygard. In the world of politics, he takes on John Diefenbaker, the subject of his ground-breaking Renegade in Power, as well as Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, René Lévesque, Bill Vander Zalm and Lucien Bouchard.

  
  
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  October 2010

  Heroes

  In Heroes, Peter C. Newman incisively analyzes dozens of Canadians, past and present, who have defined this country, drawing on fifty years of writing. From the world of popular culture, he writes about Terry Fox, Margaret Atwood and June Callwood. From politics, Pierre Trudeau, Christina McCall and Lester B. Pearson, among others. And from the world of business, Newman includes some of the most active entrepreneurs on the planet, including Jimmy Pattison, Heather Reisman and Paul Desmarais. The grandmaster at the top of his game, Newman shares the inside stories of these pivotal characters whose lives and times set examples for all of us.

  
  
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  October 2008

  Izzy

  Izzy tells the epic, unauthorized life story of a Canadian media giant Izzy Asper was a true visionary and a self-made billionaire. In the kind of intimate detail that made his other books mega bestsellers, Peter C. Newman profiles one of the most charismatic and powerful Canadian tycoons of the past quarter century. A serial risk-taker with a fever in his blood, the always-controversial Asper grew a tiny television station, operated out of a converted supermarket, into the CanWest Empire.

  
  
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  August 2006

  The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister

  A retelling of what former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney really thought of his peers, his policies and the position he held.  Spanning 20 years at 22 Sussex, the discussions offer a portrait of Mulroney while he was in power.

  
  
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  January 1995

  Canadian Revolution 1985-1995: From Deference to Defiance

  
  
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