Vic Parsons (born 1942) is a retired Canadian journalist and author based in Victoria, British Columbia.
[3] Series writer and creator Robert C. Cooper called Parsons’ book a “detailed, compassionate and personal account of the tainted blood tragedy.”[4] Bad Blood was shortlisted for the Gordon Montador Award for Canadian social policy in 1995 and for the Ottawa-Carleton Non-fiction award in 1996.
[5] Parsons is also the author of Ken Thomson: Canada's Enigmatic Billionaire (1996)[6] and a piece of historical fiction based on the life of Francis Dickens entitled Lesser Expectations: Charles Dickens' Son in North America (2014).
[7] As a journalist, Parsons worked for about three decades with news wire services in Canada and also freelanced for The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and the International Herald Tribune, among others.
He served as National Business Editor for the Canadian Press in Toronto from 1981 to 1983 and Deputy Bureau Chief at CP Ottawa from 1983 to 1988.