Susan Delacourt / @SusanDelacourt

Susan Delacourt is a freelance columnist with Ipolitics and the Toronto Star. She has worked at some of the top newsrooms in the country, from the  Star and the Globe and Mail to the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post. She is a frequent political panelist on CBC Radio and CTV and a mentor with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.  Author of four books, her latest — Shopping For Votes — was a finalist for the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Canadian non-fiction in 2014. She has also been teaching classes in journalism and political communication at Carleton University over the past few years as well.