Biography
Don Martin is the Post's national affairs columnist based in Ottawa. He writes four times weekly keeping a special eye on western issues of interest to his favourite province, namely AlbertaHe has spent the last 30 years covering politics, starting with Calgary city hall and moving to the provincial legislature before heading to the nation's capital in 2000 where our tax dollars go to die under the giddy free-spending Conservatives. He is married and has three daughters, which explains his dwindling mop of greying hair. He authored the bestseller King Ralph in 2002, a biography on the life and times of Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, and in 2006 published BELINDA on the private and (brief) political life of Belinda Stronach.
Don Martin is the Post's national affairs columnist based in Ottawa. He writes four times weekly keeping a special eye on western issues of interest to his favourite province, namely AlbertaHe has spent the last 30 years covering politics, starting with Calgary city hall and moving to the provincial legislature before heading to the nation's capital in 2000 where our tax dollars go to die under the giddy free-spending Conservatives. He is married and has three daughters, which explains his dwindling mop of greying hair. He authored the bestseller King Ralph in 2002, a biography on the life and times of Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, and in 2006 published BELINDA on the private and (brief) political life of Belinda Stronach.