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Jack Austin’s $25,000 Gift Opens The Walrus’s Seventh Regional Bureau, in British Columbia

The former senator becomes the first individual Canadian to fund the launch of one of our bureaus

The Walrus Foundation is announcing a $25,000 gift from the Honourable Jack Austin, PC, CM, OBC, a former federal cabinet minister and senator from British Columbia, that will allow us to expand to a seventh regional bureau.

The British Columbia Bureau will produce reporting and analysis on the political, economic, and public policy questions shaping the province and will carry those questions into the national conversation. The gift supports the first two years of the bureau’s journalism.

“I have long been a reader and supporter of The Walrus’s fact-based journalism and its mission to spark new thinking and conversations across Canada and across political and social divides. The launch of regional bureaus was an important step in helping Canadians better understand and appreciate both what we have in common and our differences. As a long-time Vancouver resident and an advocate for the interests of British Columbia, I am pleased to support the BC Bureau of The Walrus and look forward to seeing more BC stories and perspectives.” —The Honourable Jack Austin, PC, CM, OBC

Austin has long believed that we cannot understand Canada without understanding the West. He arrived in the capital as chief of staff to Arthur Laing, went on to serve as deputy minister of energy and chief of staff to Pierre Trudeau, and held cabinet posts under both Pierre Trudeau and Paul Martin. Austin........

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