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Paul Palango is a former Globe
and Mail reporter and editor, who as City and National editor
was in charge of investigative reporting at the Globe from
1985 to 1990. In that capacity his staff won every major
journalism award over that five year period, and Palango
accepted the Michener Award for the Globe in 1989, after
the judges made an unprecedented decision that each of the
three unrelated series of stories entered qualified as a
winner.
Palango is
the author of two previous ground-breaking and prescient books
on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Above the Law: the
Crooks, the Politicians, the Mounties and Rod Stamler (1994) and The
Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP and in Canada (1998),
both published by McClelland and Stewart. Above the Law was
on the best-seller lists for several months, and both his books
are used as reference material in universities. The Last
Guardians has come to be seen as the definitive work on the relationship
between police and government in Canada.
In
the intervening years since the publication of his books, Palango
investigated the Church of Scientology and its control of the
Vancouver Stock Exchange. He was among the first, if not the
first reporter, to uncover large scale accounting fraud in his
1996 investigation of Philip Services Corp., for the CBC’s The
Fifth Estate. He is a frequent contributor to the CBC radio
on RCMP matters, and since November 2006 has made more than 100
appearances across the country on CBC television and radio, CTV,
and Global discussing the force
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