Robert Fife (born 1954) is a Canadian political journalist and author who served as Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail.
In 2002, while at CanWest, Fife published multiple stories incorrectly portraying Maher Arar as definitively associated with Al-Qaeda based on leaked information from unnamed national security sources.
[1][8] On May 14, 2013, he broke the news that Nigel Wright, then Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper had written a $90,000 cheque to cover the questionable Senate expenses of Mike Duffy.
[11] Fife served as the executive producer of CTV News Channel's daily political show Power Play with Don Martin.
[7] In 2018, Fife claimed on CPAC panel that systematic racism was a trivial issue in Canada because social integration of "high schools and universities kids of different backgrounds.”[12][13][14]