Wade Rowland

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Wade Rowland is a Canadian science, technology, and travel writer.

Biography

Rowland was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1944. He was married in 1978 to Christine Collie, with whom he has two children, Simon and Hilary Rowland.

Rowland has worked as a journalist for the Winnipeg Free Press, the Toronto Telegram, and Canadian television networks CBC and CTV. He holds a Ph.D. from Toronto's York University. He has lectured at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and is a former Maclean Hunter Chair of Ethics in Communication at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is currently a professor of communications at York University. He has resided in Port Hope, Ontario since 1982.

Books

Polar Passage: The Historic First Sail through the Northwest Passage (with Jeff MacInnis) - 1989
Spirit of the Web: The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet – 1997
Ockham's Razor: A Search for Wonder In An Age of Doubt – 1999
Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church – 2003
Greed Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen – 2005
Saving the CBC: Balancing Profit and Public Service – 2013

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Name	Rowland, Wade
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Short description	Canadian writer
Date of birth	1944
Place of birth	Montreal
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