Bruce McDougall, Toronto

2006

Bruce McDougall, contributing editor to Zaxis Publishing, has written for most major business publications in Canada, including Report on Business magazine, and has worked on corporate assignments with some of Canada's leading companies, designers and public-relations specialists.

He has also written or co-written 16 books, including biographies of Ted Rogers and Edgar Bronfman Jr., the best-selling Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance for Canadians, The Canadian Mortgage Book, with Gordon Pape, and How I stopped worrying about retirement (without alcohol, caffeine, nicotine or other artificial stimulants). He developed the textual content for Priority Brokerage, an on-line discount broker, and contributed to Exchange Place, an interactive exhibit developed by the Toronto Stock Exchange. He has appeared on local and national radio and television programs including Canada AM, Dini Petty, CITY TV's Breakfast Television and CBC Radio.

An honours graduate of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bruce attended the University of Toronto Law School before becoming a full-time writer. At Harvard, he played freshman and junior varsity hockey and was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate and a Rhodes Scholarship finalist.

Selected Publications

• How I Stopped Worrying About Retirement (without Alcohol, Nicotine, Caffeine or other Artificial Stimulants)
• Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Home in Canada
• 2005 Rob Income Trusts
• Going green in the burbs

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