Vaughn Palmer has been working at The Sun since April 15, 1973, when he worked his first reporting shift on a Sunday.
Not bad for a guy from the Gaspé in Quebec whose first brush with local fame was as The Sun’s rock critic.
“So I said, ‘How do you do that?’ And he said, ‘Well you work for The Ubyssey.’ And the rest is history. We ended up as co-editors of The Ubyssey together.” After two-and-a-half years he left for a journalism fellowship at Stanford University in California. Shortly after he returned to The Sun, Victoria columnist Marjorie Nichols went to Ottawa, and the paper posted the job for the B.C. political columnist.
Then the Zalm came along, and Palmer found his groove. In 2006 he received the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jack Webster Awards for his contribution to B.C. journalism. He’s a wealth of bon mots about B.C. politics, many of which have made it into columns. One of his favourites was the time a former cabinet minister in W.A.C. Bennett’s Socred government told Palmer his real feelings about another former cabinet minister.Article contentPalmer will be 71 in May, and lives in Victoria’s Fairfield neighbourhood with his wife Dale. He recently became a grandfather when his daughter Elise had a son, Reid, with her husband, Jordan Armstrong of Global.
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