Martin O'Malley (journalist)

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Martin O'Malley
Born(1939-02-22)22 February 1939
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died22 February 2025(2025-02-22) (aged 86)
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
OccupationJournalist, writer

Martin Joseph O'Malley (22 February 1939 – 22 February 2025) was a Canadian journalist and writer. He wrote for CBC News and The Globe and Mail. O'Malley was perhaps best known for a Globe and Mail editorial in which he coined the line about laws that criminalized homosexual behavior which Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau later made famous: "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."[1]

O'Malley was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, moving to Toronto to pursue his career as a newspaper reporter and columnist. He died in Whitby, Ontario on his 86th birthday, 22 February 2025.[2]

He has written the following books:

  • The Past and Future Land: an account of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
  • Doctors
  • Hospital
  • Gross Misconduct: The Life of Spinner Spencer
  • Running Risks
  • Game Day: the Blue Jays at SkyDome
  • More than Meets the Eye: Watching television watching us

Gross Misconduct earned O'Malley the Author of the Year award in 1989 from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters. The book was made into a TV film, directed by Atom Egoyan. O'Malley also wrote the CBC docudrama Giant Mine.

References

  1. ↑ "'A thirst for new blood'". The Globe and Mail. 14 October 2006. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Freeman, Alan (6 March 2025). "Journalist Martin-O'Malley Crisscrossed Canada Reporting for The Globe". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 9 March 2025.