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Stevie Cameron, , (née, Stephanie Graham Dahl; born 11 October 1943) is a Canadian investigative journalist and author. Early life and work Stephanie "Stevie" Graham Dahl was born in Belleville, Ontario, to Harold Edward Dahl, a mercenary American pilot who fought in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. She has an honours B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, and attended graduate school at University College London, England, for three years. Career She worked for the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa in the 1960s, and taught English literature at Trent University. 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. Personal life Cameron lives in Toronto with her husband, David Cameron, a professor at the University of Toronto. They have two daughters, who are both screenwriters. Major works 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. Cameron, Brian Mulroney, and the Airbus Affair 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 and his alleged involvement in secret commissions paid by Karlheinz Schreiber to members of the Government of Canada, and to Conservative-linked lobbyists, in exchange for then-crown corporation Air Canada's purchase of 34 Airbus jets. It was one of the first full-length works to dig into the Airbus Affair in Canada. The book also documented several other corruption scandals during the period. In 1995, Cameron joined Maclean's magazine as a contributor for investigative stories. Cameron became the focus of a campaign by Brian Mulroney's defenders to discredit the allegations against him. In 2004, The Globe and Mail turned the tables on its former investigative reporter by running a series of three articles by lawyer William Kaplan, claiming that Cameron had worked as a confidential informant for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during its investigation of the Airbus Affair. Cameron vigorously denied the allegations, which, if true, would have compromised her credibility as a journalist. In his 2004 book A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron and the Public Trust, Kaplan outlined evidence that illustrated the RCMP's perception of Cameron as a confidential RCMP informant. But in the spring of 2005 (in testimony in the Eurocopter trial, held in Toronto before Judge Edward Then), Chief Superintendent Al Matthews, the RCMP officer in charge of the Airbus investigation, recanted almost all of the allegations against Cameron contained in a search warrant that had been relied upon by Kaplan. Matthews admitted that Cameron had very few contacts with the RCMP, contradicting assertions he'd made in court that she had possessed several hundred. He also admitted that Cameron was telling the truth when she said any information she had shared with the RCMP was already in the public domain, and that the information she shared was of little help to their investigation. On 14 February 2007, Cameron appeared before the House of Commons of Canada Ethics Committee in their examination of the Mulroney Airbus Settlement. She confirmed that everything she knows on the subject had been documented in her books. Cameron also made a personal statement that she was not a police informant; any information she had given to the RCMP was already in the public domain at the time.Cameron was subpoenaed by the Oliphant Commission as a potential witness for the public inquiry called by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in early 2008, under terms defined by David Lloyd Johnston. Ultimately, Cameron was not called as a witness when the inquiry, chaired by Justice Jeffrey Oliphant (former Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Manitoba) got going in Ottawa. Ultimately, it was conclusively demonstrated by the Oliphant Inquiry that Mulroney had received at least $225,000 from Schreiber, in three equal instalments, in cash, paid in thousand-dollar bills, shortly after leaving office in mid-1993. Two of these cash-transfer meetings took place in Montreal, while the third occurred at the luxury Pierre Hotel in New York City. Mulroney had earlier denied any business dealings whatsoever with Schreiber, and had denied receiving any money from him, as a response to questions during his lawsuit testimony given in 1996 in Montreal. Mulroney had delayed paying income tax on this money until several years after he received it. Blue Trust, 1998 In 1998, she published her third book, Blue Trust,. 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. Verchere had left his wife, a very successful entrepreneur, for an affair with the much younger Diane Hailey, daughter of novelist Arthur Hailey, a Verchere client. Just before his suicide, Verchere had been appointed as chairman of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.The following year, she founded Elm Street, a national general-interest magazine, but continued to write investigative features for Maclean's. Three years later, she resigned from Elm Street, continuing as a columnist, in order to research and write The Last Amigo, with co-author Harvey Cashore; this 2001 book is a biography of Schreiber, along with a more detailed examination of the Airbus Affair. It won a Crime Writers of Canada award as the Best True Crime Book of the Year. Books on Robert Pickton She began researching the Robert Pickton murder case in British Columbia in 2002, and published her first book on the case, The Pickton File, in 2007. Cameron has completed her second book about the Pickton case, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women, which was published by Knopf in the summer of 2010 when a publication ban on the case was lifted after an appeal to Supreme Court of Canada upheld the trial jury's guilty verdict. As well as documenting the botched police investigation that finally led to Pickton's arrest, the book contains important insights into why Pickton offered help to some of the woman he picked up as prostitutes, while brutally murdering others, and how he decided wh.... Discover the Stevie Macfarlane popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Stevie Macfarlane books.

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    Her Handy Man

    Stevie MacFarlane

       Damn he looked good, all muscled and a little sweaty.  She could almost taste him, the slightly salty texture of his skin.  Her knees trembled as his tongue ...

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    Woven Threads

    Stevie MacFarlane

    When Cara Whittaker asked her distant and reclusive husband, Morgan, to join an experimental program to travel back in time, she never anticipated the consequences. Morgan chose to...

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    The Rancher and Carrie Ann

    Stevie MacFarlane

    "I made a mistake," Carrie spat out.  "I didn't mean to invite you all on the same night, and in fact, I'm not certain I did.  I'm sure one of you just showed up uninvite...

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    Suzanna

    Stevie MacFarlane

    Seattle hasn't been the same ever since dozens of women responded to a letter for a mailorder bride. In the fourth book of the popular Marriage Market series, the mailorder mayhem ...

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    The Newspaper Man and Bedelia

    Stevie MacFarlane

    A new romance is heating up the old west.  Secrecy, rivalry, and jealousy may be the death of it.  The stakes couldn't be higher.  Can they survive the flames?Bedeli...

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    Grace

    Stevie MacFarlane

    Grace Wentworth is not faint of heart. Growing up with brothers she is well aware of how disgustingly vulgar young men can be when no one is listening. She doesn't consider herself...

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    Martha

    Stevie MacFarlane

    Martha Jonas can't seem to help feeling a bit sorry for herself. Ethan, the man she plans to marry, has put his foot down, telling her what she must and must not do. It's infuriati...

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    Tangled Threads

    Stevie MacFarlane

    He's been warned not to tamper with the fragile fabric of the future, but danger is coming. Can he stop it and change his and Callie Mae's destiny or will he run out of time?Morgan...

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    Amelia

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    Fresh out of Mrs. Pettigrew's School for Young Ladies, Amelia Westcott and her two best friends are ready for adventure.  Suddenly a life filled with social obligations and me...

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    The Marshal and Kate

    Stevie MacFarlane

    A hot romance is kicking up some dust in the old west! A sexy Marshal, looking to rope his woman, is about to find himself smack dab in the middle of a mystery. The woman he craves...

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    Born Too Late

    Stevie MacFarlane

    Evelyn Whitcomb's one disastrous marriage convinced her that the kind of man she wanted did not exist. He was a figment of her imagination and her fantasies, and she was certain sh...

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    Broken Threads

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    Mead Whittaker wasn't much more than a boy when he fought at the Battel of Mine Creek, but it damn near cost him his life.  The last thing he needed was another injury to the ...

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    Effie

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    Come hell or high water, Euphemia Lane is determined to travel to Seattle to rescue her friend, Amelia, while keeping Grace out of Horace Remington's reach!Along the way, it seemed...