| 词条 | Randall Denley |
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| name = Randall Denley | birth_name = | image = | birth_date = | birth_place = London, Ontario | occupation = novelist, journalist | period = 2000s-present | nationality = Canadian | notableworks = The Perfect Candidate | spouse = | website = {{URL|http://www.randalldenley.com/index.html}} }} Randall Denley is a Canadian journalist, author and politician. A longtime columnist for the Ottawa Citizen,[1] he has also published three novels. Born and raised in London, Ontario, Denley graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a journalism degree in 1973.[1] He spent several years as a journalist and editor for the Owen Sound Sun Times[1] before joining the Citizen as a journalist in 1983.[1] In 1992, he moved from the regular journalism beat to a political column with the paper, writing about both municipal and provincial politics.[1] His first novel, a murder mystery titled Necessary Victims, was serialized in the Citizen in 2004.[2] In 2006, he published The Perfect Candidate, a satire of local municipal politics in which Will Hacker, a former hockey player turned radio talk show host, is bribed by local developers to run a fake campaign for Mayor of Ottawa.[3] His third novel, a murder mystery titled One Dead Sister, was published in 2010.[3] Denley took a leave of absence from the Citizen in 2011 to run as an Ontario Progressive Conservative Party candidate in Ottawa West—Nepean for the 2011 provincial election.[4] He briefly returned to the Citizen as an editorial writer after losing the election to incumbent MPP Bob Chiarelli, but retired from the paper in 2012.[5] He ran again in the 2014 election,[5] again losing to Chiarelli.[6] References1. ^1 2 3 4 "Making the jump to politics". Toronto Sun, September 3, 2011. 2. ^"Columnist turns sights from City Hall to city streets". Ottawa Citizen, June 26, 2004. 3. ^1 "London native marries reality, fiction in latest book". London Free Press, December 21, 2010. 4. ^"Citizen columnist to run for Tories against Chiarelli". CBC News, May 17, 2011. 5. ^1 [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/candidates-share-a-fraught-political-past/article18740843/ "Candidates in Ottawa West-Nepean riding share a fraught political past"]. The Globe and Mail, May 18, 2014. 6. ^"Liberal Bob Chiarelli holds seat in Ottawa West-Nepean". Global News, June 12, 2014. External links
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