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Stevie Cameron CM (née Dahl; October 11, 1943 – August 31, 2024) was a Canadian investigative journalist and author. She worked for various newspapers such as the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. She co-hosted the investigative news television program, The Fifth Estate, on CBC-TV in the 1990s. She was also an author of non-fiction books, including On the Take (1994) about former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Her exposé on Mulroney and the Airbus Affair led to many legal battles including a judicial hearing to determine if she was an RCMP confidential informant: she was not. The fact that Mulroney did take a substantial amount of money while still in government was confirmed in the 2010 Oliphant report. Her final books dealt with the disappearance and the killing of several Indigenous women in the Vancouver area in the mid-1990s to the turn of this century. These murders were ultimately attributed to convicted serial killer Robert Pickton. She won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction crime book for her work on the Pickton case. Besides being a journalist and author, she was also a humanitarian, helping start programs for the underprivileged and homeless such as Second Harvest and the Out of the Cold program. For her lifetime work as a writer and humanitarian, she was invested into the Order of Canada in 2013.
Stephanie Graham Dahl, most commonly known as Stevie, even as a child, was born on October 11, 1943, in Belleville, Ontario. Her father was Harold Edward "Whitey" Dahl, a mercenary American pilot who fought in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. He came to Canada in 1940, and the next year, married her mother, the former Eleanor Roblin Bone, in Belleville. Eleanor's father, Jameson Bone, was a former mayor of Belleville. Post-war, the whole family moved to Switzerland in 1952 because Whitey Dahl was employed as a pilot by Swiss Air. He was fired in 1953 after he was charged with stealing gold and for having an affair with a Swiss Air hostess. Eleanor separated from Whitey because of his affair with the hostess. The family then moved back to Canada, with Eleanor and the children going to back to Belleville, while Whitey flew as a bush pilot in Canada's north. Whitey Dahl died while piloting a bush plane in Labrador on February 14, 1956, leaving Eleanor widowed and the children, including Stephanie, fatherless. Eleanor died in 1997 and her ashes were placed in the same grave as her husband's.
After a year at Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris in 1975, she began working as a food writer and in 1977, became the food editor of the Toronto Star. A year later, she moved to the Ottawa Journal as Lifestyles editor. She later became the Ottawa Citizen's Lifestyles and Travel editor. Four years later, she joined a new investigative journalism unit at the Citizen and also became a national political columnist.
In 1986, Cameron moved to Toronto as a national columnist and reporter for The Globe and Mail, and published her first book, in 1989, called Ottawa Inside Out. In 1990, she became a host of the CBC Television public affairs program The Fifth Estate but returned to the Globe in 1991 as a freelance columnist and feature writer. In 1995, Cameron joined Maclean's magazine as a contributing editor.
Her second book, On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years, was published in 1994. The book raised questions about the ethics of former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Some allegations included the following scandals: Karlheinz Schreiber making payments to him to influence Air Canada's $2 billion purchase of Airbus jetliners (Airbus Affair); maintenance contracts for Canada's CF-18; and a computerized communications system for the foreign affairs department that went $200 million over budget. The book also documented several other corruption scandals during the period.
In 1998, her third book, Blue Trust, was published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross. The book profiled the bizarre life and death of Bruce Verchere, a Montreal tax lawyer and partner in the national law firm Bennett Jones LLP, who had served as private financial advisor to Mulroney, before committing suicide in late summer 1993. Just before his suicide, Verchere had been appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.
In 1996, Cameron was the founding editor of Elm Street, a national general-interest magazine, aimed at university-educated women. The magazine's mix of serious journalism, recipes, fashion spreads and cheeky tidbits were its main characteristics. Three years later, she resigned as Elm Street's editor, but continued on as a columnist. She also never stopped writing investigative features for Maclean's during this time. Elm Street continued to publish until 2004, publishing over 400,000 copies per issue eight times a year, distributed freely in newspapers, usually The Globe and Mail. But changes to the way the Print Measuring Bureau's (PMB) methodology on how it counted market share for advertisers, and changes to the Canadian Magazine Fund's funding model, purportedly led to its demise.
The Airbus Affair continued to be of interest to Cameron. Her next book, The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal (2001) was co-written with CBC-TV's The Fifth Estate journalist, Harvey Cashore. This top-selling book examined the actions of Schreiber, who was facing extradition, at the time, to his native Germany to explain his role in a scandal involving kickbacks and bribes. It also goes into a detailed examination of the Airbus Affair. It won a Crime Writers of Canada award as the Best True Crime Book of the Year.
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Stevie Cameron
Stevie Cameron CM (née Dahl; October 11, 1943 – August 31, 2024) was a Canadian investigative journalist and author. She worked for various newspapers such as the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. She co-hosted the investigative news television program, The Fifth Estate, on CBC-TV in the 1990s. She was also an author of non-fiction books, including On the Take (1994) about former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Her exposé on Mulroney and the Airbus Affair led to many legal battles including a judicial hearing to determine if she was an RCMP confidential informant: she was not. The fact that Mulroney did take a substantial amount of money while still in government was confirmed in the 2010 Oliphant report. Her final books dealt with the disappearance and the killing of several Indigenous women in the Vancouver area in the mid-1990s to the turn of this century. These murders were ultimately attributed to convicted serial killer Robert Pickton. She won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction crime book for her work on the Pickton case. Besides being a journalist and author, she was also a humanitarian, helping start programs for the underprivileged and homeless such as Second Harvest and the Out of the Cold program. For her lifetime work as a writer and humanitarian, she was invested into the Order of Canada in 2013.
Stephanie Graham Dahl, most commonly known as Stevie, even as a child, was born on October 11, 1943, in Belleville, Ontario. Her father was Harold Edward "Whitey" Dahl, a mercenary American pilot who fought in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. He came to Canada in 1940, and the next year, married her mother, the former Eleanor Roblin Bone, in Belleville. Eleanor's father, Jameson Bone, was a former mayor of Belleville. Post-war, the whole family moved to Switzerland in 1952 because Whitey Dahl was employed as a pilot by Swiss Air. He was fired in 1953 after he was charged with stealing gold and for having an affair with a Swiss Air hostess. Eleanor separated from Whitey because of his affair with the hostess. The family then moved back to Canada, with Eleanor and the children going to back to Belleville, while Whitey flew as a bush pilot in Canada's north. Whitey Dahl died while piloting a bush plane in Labrador on February 14, 1956, leaving Eleanor widowed and the children, including Stephanie, fatherless. Eleanor died in 1997 and her ashes were placed in the same grave as her husband's.
After a year at Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris in 1975, she began working as a food writer and in 1977, became the food editor of the Toronto Star. A year later, she moved to the Ottawa Journal as Lifestyles editor. She later became the Ottawa Citizen's Lifestyles and Travel editor. Four years later, she joined a new investigative journalism unit at the Citizen and also became a national political columnist.
In 1986, Cameron moved to Toronto as a national columnist and reporter for The Globe and Mail, and published her first book, in 1989, called Ottawa Inside Out. In 1990, she became a host of the CBC Television public affairs program The Fifth Estate but returned to the Globe in 1991 as a freelance columnist and feature writer. In 1995, Cameron joined Maclean's magazine as a contributing editor.
Her second book, On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years, was published in 1994. The book raised questions about the ethics of former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Some allegations included the following scandals: Karlheinz Schreiber making payments to him to influence Air Canada's $2 billion purchase of Airbus jetliners (Airbus Affair); maintenance contracts for Canada's CF-18; and a computerized communications system for the foreign affairs department that went $200 million over budget. The book also documented several other corruption scandals during the period.
In 1998, her third book, Blue Trust, was published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross. The book profiled the bizarre life and death of Bruce Verchere, a Montreal tax lawyer and partner in the national law firm Bennett Jones LLP, who had served as private financial advisor to Mulroney, before committing suicide in late summer 1993. Just before his suicide, Verchere had been appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.
In 1996, Cameron was the founding editor of Elm Street, a national general-interest magazine, aimed at university-educated women. The magazine's mix of serious journalism, recipes, fashion spreads and cheeky tidbits were its main characteristics. Three years later, she resigned as Elm Street's editor, but continued on as a columnist. She also never stopped writing investigative features for Maclean's during this time. Elm Street continued to publish until 2004, publishing over 400,000 copies per issue eight times a year, distributed freely in newspapers, usually The Globe and Mail. But changes to the way the Print Measuring Bureau's (PMB) methodology on how it counted market share for advertisers, and changes to the Canadian Magazine Fund's funding model, purportedly led to its demise.
The Airbus Affair continued to be of interest to Cameron. Her next book, The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal (2001) was co-written with CBC-TV's The Fifth Estate journalist, Harvey Cashore. This top-selling book examined the actions of Schreiber, who was facing extradition, at the time, to his native Germany to explain his role in a scandal involving kickbacks and bribes. It also goes into a detailed examination of the Airbus Affair. It won a Crime Writers of Canada award as the Best True Crime Book of the Year.
