Thomas Walkom is national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star.
[1] Previously, he was the Star's Queen's Park columnist covering Ontario politics for eight years, including the governments of Premiers Bob Rae and Mike Harris.
[2] In the 1980s, Walkom was a parliamentary reporter for The Globe and Mail based in Ottawa and then served as the newspaper's bureau chief in Tokyo.
[1] He has won two National Newspaper Awards for foreign reporting and column writing.
[1] During the Russo-Ukraine War, Walkom published a number of articles which were critical of Canada's support for Ukraine.