Mark Bourrie

Mark Bourrie (born 1959 or 1960) is a Canadian lawyer, blogger, journalist, author, historian, and lecturer at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. His work has appeared in many Canadian magazines and newspapers. In 2020, his historical biography of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Bushrunner: The Adventures of Pierre Radisson, won the final RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction to be awarded. He worked for two decades as a freelance journalist and feature writer, primarily for The Globe and Mail from 1981 to 1989 and the Toronto Star from 1989 to 1999 and sporadically since then, and also maintains a blog. He was Parliamentary correspondent for the Law Times from 1994 until 2006. He also wrote for the InterPress Service, the United Nations-sponsored news and feature service. By the late 1990s, he had branched out from newspaper freelance work to book and magazine writing. He has won several journalism awards including a 1999 National Magazine Award gold award for his Ottawa City Magazine article, "The System That Killed Santa" and the Ontario Community Newspaper Association's award for 2007 Columnist of the Year for his work in the Ottawa City Journal