Paul Palango

Paul Palango (born 1950) is a Canadian author and investigative journalist. Palango worked as a journalist and editor for The Hamilton Spectator and The Globe and Mail. He has written four non-fiction books about policing in Canada, including 22 Murders.

Paul Palango
Born1960
Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)Author, newspaper editor, investigative journalist
Notable work22 Murders (2022 book)

Early life

Palango was born in 1950 in Ontario, Canada.[1][2]

Career

In the 1970s he worked for the The Hamilton Spectator before moving to The Globe and Mail in 1977 and remaining there until 1990 when he retired as an editor.[3][4] Palango is noted for his reporting on authority figures including the Canadian police, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Canadian media, and business leaders.[5] In 2000, he opened a glass art business in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.[1]

He returned to writing, publishing 22 Murders in 2022, his critical account of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police response to the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks.[6] The book was the second on the Toronto Star’s list of bestselling non-fiction in Canada in April 2022.[6]

The Georgia Straight editor, Charlie Smith, described Palango as "one of Canada's last remaining investigative reporters." in August 2022.[7]

Books
  • Above the Law, 1994, McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 978-0-7710-6905-5[5]
  • The Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP - and Canada, 1998, McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 978-0-7710-6906-2[5]
  • Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP, 2008, Key Porter Books, ISBN 978-1-55470-042-4[8][9]
  • 22 Murders, 2022, Random House Canada, ISBN 978-1-0390-0127-5[3]

Personal life

Palango lives in Nova Scotia.[1]

References
  1. Ali, Leena (28 May 2014). "Rural Artists Thinking Big" (PDF). Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin. pp. C1.
  2. Palango, Paul. Above the law.
  3. Johnston, Douglas J. (2022-05-14). "RCMP's many shortcomings chronicled in account of N.S. massacre". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  4. Bing, Hannah. "The duty to investigate". The Signal. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  5. McKenna, Paul (2009-02-10). "Author doesn't get the RCMP". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  6. "The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending April 20, 2022". The Toronto Star. 2022-04-20. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  7. "Here's why B.C. residents need to pay attention to the Mass Casualty Commission in Nova Scotia". The Georgia Straight. 2022-08-06. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  8. "Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. 2008-11-07. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  9. "Paul Palango cites training, recruitment as factors in Vancouver police shootings". The Georgia Straight. 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
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