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- Birth nameChristie Mary Blatchford
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- Christie Blatchford (born May 20, 1951) is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and author based in Toronto, Ontario. She writes a regular column for the National Post newspaper after leaving her position at The Globe and Mail in 2011. Her previous journalist work includes work on the Toronto Sun, Toronto Star and National Post newspapers. Early career experience included work as a sports journalist with The Globe and Mail.
She is the author of Close Encounters (1988); Spectator Sports (1986); Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2008), which won the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award in Non-fiction; Helpless: Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us(2010).- IMDb Mini Biography By: S. Moore
- SpousesJim Oreto(1977 - 1981) (divorced)David Rutherford (divorced)
- [Olympics observation, 2014] The day that ice dance can be taken seriously, the judging as credible, pigs will also fly.
- [on the opening ceremonies at the 2018 Pyeonchang Olympics and a joint celebration by representatives from both Koreas] Just before the lighting of the Opympic torch...four Korean singers did a beautiful version of the unofficial peace anthem, John Lennon's "Imagine". The crowd, every man and woman with a torch, swayed back and forth to the music. It was like a rolling wave of light. As the singers sang the second stanza - "Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for; And no religion too" - there wasn't a dry eye or untouched heart in the house - or the tiniest shard of recognition or a sliver of irony. That's the true spirit of the Olympics: Suspended disbelief.
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