Robert Fife

Robert Fife is a Canadian journalist and author, who has been the CTV News Ottawa bureau chief since February 2005. He is a native of Chapleau, Ontario. Fife has been covering national politics since 1978. He began his career in the parliamentary bureau of NewsRadio and United Press International of Canada. Fife worked for Canadian Press and The National Post before taking the position with CTV GlobeMedia.

Fife has also authored "A Capital Scandal: Politics, Patronage and Payoff", "Why Parliament Must Be Reformed" and "Kim Campbell: The Making of a Prime Minister".

In April, 2008, Fife came under fire from various Blogging Tories, an unofficial Conservative Party of Canada consortium of bloggers for stating that "we all know that there are some knuckle-draggers in Mr. Harper's caucus" [cite web | author=| title=Youtube video of Fife's comments about social conservatives in the Conservative Party | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCra_DdfQY&eurl=http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2008/04/robert-fife-bashes-knuckle-dragging.html | accessdate=2008-04-05] and implying that social conservative views were unacceptable views to hold in public. [cite web | title=Celestial Junk: Robert Fife Bashes Knuckle-Dragging Conservatives | url=http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2008/04/robert-fife-bashes-knuckle-dragging.html | accessdate=2008-04-05] Some bloggers called for CTV to punish Fife for his views, which incidentally paralleled the story that Fife was reporting on at the time, which was that of calls for Saskatchewan Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski to be punished for making comments about homosexuals thirteen years prior to being elected an MP.

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* [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/1108657021143_104064632 CTV News biography of Robert Fife]