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Michael Dennis "Mike" Duffy (born May 27, 1946) is a Canadian senator and former Canadian television journalist. Prior to his appointment to the upper house in 2008, he was the Ottawa editor for CTV News Channel. After resigning from the Conservative caucus on May 16, 2013, amid scandal,〔("Senator Mike Duffy quits Tory caucus" ). CBC News. May 16, 2013.〕 Duffy sat in the Senate as an independent, representing Prince Edward Island, until the Senate voted on November 5, 2013, to suspend him without pay for two years. With the early call of the election on August 2, 2015, by Prime Minister Harper, Senators Brazeau, Duffy and Wallin recommenced receiving their salaries and benefits On July 17, 2014 he was charged with 31 criminal offenses including fraud, breach of trust and bribery. ==Early life and journalism career== Mike Duffy was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island to Lillian and Wilfrid Duffy, and is the grandson of C. Gavan Duffy, a PEI Liberal MLA and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.〔http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/king-of-the-hill/〕 Duffy was a high school dropout〔(‘A desire to be somebody’: Mike Duffy’s rise from high school dropout to ‘the Old Duff’ of Ottawa’s power elite | National Post )〕 and briefly studied humanities at St. Dunstan’s College.〔http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/king-of-the-hill/〕 He became a ham radio operator at the age of 16. He began his career as a teen disc jockey at CFCY-TV in the mid-1960s. He moved to print journalism with ''The Guardian'' in Charlottetown, before heading to CFCF in Montreal as a lineup and assignment editor in 1969, and in 1971 he joined CFRA radio in Ottawa as a political reporter. Duffy joined CBC radio's Parliament Hill bureau in 1974, and became a reporter for ''The National'' in 1977. Duffy became the lead CBC television reporter on Parliament Hill and covered most of the important federal stories of the Trudeau, Clark and Mulroney governments. Duffy is primarily known for his work as an Ottawa journalist, but he has been a foreign correspondent. He covered the fall of South Vietnam in April 1975 for the CBC and was one of the last journalists to leave Saigon before the arrival of North Vietnamese troops and Viet Cong insurgents. In 1988, Duffy joined Baton Broadcasting as the first host of its Sunday morning news program ''Sunday Edition'' based in Ottawa. When that series ended in 1999, Duffy moved to his role as a show host and interviewer with CTV Newsnet (now the CTV News Channel). Long known as an "Ottawa insider", he was able to get many elected officials to appear on his programs. Duffy hosted two programs on CTV Newsnet, ''Countdown with Mike Duffy'' and ''Mike Duffy Live''. The latter program was broadcast from Parliament Hill and featured interviews with prominent Canadian political figures and commentators. Upon Duffy's departure for the Senate, CTV Newsnet temporarily renamed the program ''On the Hill'' and installed Graham Richardson as the host. ''On the Hill'' ran for one month before being permanently replaced with ''Power Play''. In the 1990s, Duffy sued ''Frank'' magazine for defamation. Duffy claimed that the magazine's satirical attacks against him cost him the Order of Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Duffy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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