Geoffrey Stevens’s persistence held him in good stead as a reporter, especially in The Globe’s parliamentary bureau in Ottawa, and right up to his final column
Dannie Stevens recalled the day in 1962 when her soon-to-be husband, the fresh 22-year-old honours graduate of the University of Western Ontario, went to The Globe and Mail offices in the downtown Toronto financial district to ask for a reporting job.
“‘Sorry, but I can’t accept that,’ Geoff said. He told the editor he had to get married very soon and needed enough to support a family.”Thomas Geoffrey Stewart Stevens was born January 30, 1940 in London, Ont., and died June 18 in Cambridge, Ont., at the age of 83 of a heart attack. “We had a great time there,” Ms. Stevens said, “and we were very excited about the national stories that lay ahead.” This made it all the more disappointing when Mr. Stevens was posted back to Toronto to serve as chief of The Globe’s Queen’s Park bureau.And out he went – after less than two years
as an ardent federalist; regional disparity, about which he was a frequent critic, and multiculturalism, of which he was proud. Mr. Webster wanted Mr. Stevens to be his managing editor but until that day came, the two agreed, Mr. Stevens should get to know some of the paper’s various news departments. He started at Sports.
While Clark Davey had first raised the investigative bar in the 1970s, it had been eight years since The Globe had won a Michener Award for its investigative work. In three of the fourthree separate awards in the last year, an unprecedented number. Mr. Stevens successfully sued The Globe and Mail for wrongful dismissal, and received some monetary compensation, but he struggled to find a new professional niche., with professional campaign manager John Laschinger, telling the story of what makes a successful political campaign., marketed to Canadians in the U.S. South. The secret to its success lay in being able to provide Canadian news to citizens in Florida and other states, who had no timely access to news from home.
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