MARK BOURRIE is quickly emerging as the country s leading expert and author on propaganda and censorship. He is also an award-winning writer and a respected military historian with academic qualifications that give heft to his views. He holds a PhD in History, has been a consultant to the Canadian War Museum on propaganda and war coverage, and has written two very well received books on information control: The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada s Media in World War Two and Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper s Assault on Your Right to Know.

A National Magazine Award-winning journalist, he has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs and periodically teaches courses on media history, censorship and propaganda at Carleton University and Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is also pursuing a law degree at the University of Ottawa.