David Rider is city hall bureau chief for the Toronto Star, leading the paper’s coverage of the Mayor Rob Ford administration. David graduated with honours from the Ryerson School of Journalism and cut his teeth covering city hall for Manitoba’s Brandon Sun. Since then, he has been a full-time reporter or editor at the Winnipeg Sun, Ottawa Sun, Toronto Sun, CBC and Reuters. Career highlights include municipal, provincial and federal politics; reportage from Haiti, the Arctic and Europe; and 19 months chronicling the Somalia scandal that rocked the Canadian military in the 1990s. Awards include best column and investigative reporting excellence in the Sun chain. David’s last break from full-time journalism saw him teach English and foreign affairs at a high school in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He freelanced from Asia for publications including the National Post, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, The Globe and Mail and the Star.
