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Daniel Drolet was born and raised in the small community of Smooth Rock Falls in northern Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, and later completed a fellowship at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He also completed the Economics Institute for Journalism at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.
From 1999 to 2001, he was a sessional lecturer teaching Third Year Intermediate Reporting at Carleton University's School of Journalism. And since 2001, he has been a member of the advisory committee for the Journalism program at Algonquin College in Ottawa.
He has won several awards, including two National Newspaper Awards for Spot News. The first of these was shared with the team of Canadian Press reporters who covered the 1981 constitutional conference that ended in patriation of the British North America Act, and the second was as a member of the Ottawa Citizen national bureau for work ont the 1990 constitutional conference that attempted to save the Meech Lake deal.
He is the author of:
- Children of Canada: Known and Unknown, published by the Duke University Canadian Studies Center, Durham, North Carolina, in 1986.
- Bad Intentions, published in Fair Play and Daylight, The Ottawa Citizen, 1995, John Ibbitson, editor, and
- Ottawa 'En Français' published in Ottawa: A Colourguide, Formac Publishing, 1997, Carol Martin and Kevin Burns, editors.
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