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Peter Calamai
Peter Calamai CM (June 23, 1943 – January 22, 2019) was an American-born Canadian science journalist.
Calamai was born in Berwick, Pennsylvania, the son of engineer Enrico Calamai and Jean Kennedy, and older brother to Michael and Paul. He moved to Brantford, Ontario as a child. He earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from McMaster University in 1965. While at McMaster, he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Silhouette, which won several national awards under his leadership.
As a journalist, Calamai started as a local reporter at the Brantford Expositor, then The Hamilton Spectator. He joined Southam News in the early 1970s as a parliamentary specialist and foreign correspondent in London, Nairobi, and Washington, before joining the Ottawa Citizen as an editorial pages editor in 1990. In 1996, Conrad Black bought the Citizen's parent company, Southam, and shortly thereafter fired Calamai and his colleague, Jim Travers.
From 1998 to 2008, Calamai was the chief science editor at the Toronto Star. While at the Star, he was the first science reporter invited aboard the CCGS Amundsen, where he championed the importance of observing Earth Hour and wrote a series debunking the claims of climate change deniers.
As an academic, he was a Southam Fellow at Massey College in 1982–83, the Max Bell chair at the University of Regina School of Journalism in 1985–86, and a visiting associate professor in 1997–98 and adjunct research professor since 2001 at the Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication, teaching as a sessional instructor and supervising numerous theses.
He was a founding member of the Canadian Science Writers' Association, founding director of the Science Media Centre of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Association of Physicists, and Fellow of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. He also served as a member of advisory boards to Environment Canada, NSERC, and the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network.
Calamai was an avid fan of Sherlock Holmes and was heavily involved with The Bootmakers of Toronto and The Baker Street Irregulars, literary societies devoted to the fictional character.
His other interests included conchology (with a specialization in the cowry), ornithology, astronomy, the genetic engineering of tomatoes, choir, tennis, and golf.
Peter Calamai
Peter Calamai CM (June 23, 1943 – January 22, 2019) was an American-born Canadian science journalist.
Calamai was born in Berwick, Pennsylvania, the son of engineer Enrico Calamai and Jean Kennedy, and older brother to Michael and Paul. He moved to Brantford, Ontario as a child. He earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from McMaster University in 1965. While at McMaster, he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Silhouette, which won several national awards under his leadership.
As a journalist, Calamai started as a local reporter at the Brantford Expositor, then The Hamilton Spectator. He joined Southam News in the early 1970s as a parliamentary specialist and foreign correspondent in London, Nairobi, and Washington, before joining the Ottawa Citizen as an editorial pages editor in 1990. In 1996, Conrad Black bought the Citizen's parent company, Southam, and shortly thereafter fired Calamai and his colleague, Jim Travers.
From 1998 to 2008, Calamai was the chief science editor at the Toronto Star. While at the Star, he was the first science reporter invited aboard the CCGS Amundsen, where he championed the importance of observing Earth Hour and wrote a series debunking the claims of climate change deniers.
As an academic, he was a Southam Fellow at Massey College in 1982–83, the Max Bell chair at the University of Regina School of Journalism in 1985–86, and a visiting associate professor in 1997–98 and adjunct research professor since 2001 at the Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication, teaching as a sessional instructor and supervising numerous theses.
He was a founding member of the Canadian Science Writers' Association, founding director of the Science Media Centre of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Association of Physicists, and Fellow of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. He also served as a member of advisory boards to Environment Canada, NSERC, and the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network.
Calamai was an avid fan of Sherlock Holmes and was heavily involved with The Bootmakers of Toronto and The Baker Street Irregulars, literary societies devoted to the fictional character.
His other interests included conchology (with a specialization in the cowry), ornithology, astronomy, the genetic engineering of tomatoes, choir, tennis, and golf.