Simpson’s career with the Globe and Mail began at City Hall in Toronto with coverage of Quebec politics. In 1977 he became a member of The Globe and Mail’s Ottawa office, and soon after was named bureau chief. From 1981-1993, Simpson was based in London working as a correspondent.

With a beat that goes beyond the political to include business leaders and other important national figures, Simpson understands the words and agendas that influence what happens in the legislature across the country. His award-wining books include Discipline of Power, Spoils of Power, Faultlines: Struggling For a Canadian Vision, The Anxious Years, Star-Spangled Canadians and The Friendly Dictatorship.

Simpson’s latest book Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge, which he co-authored, will be released this fall. This timely new book describes, in convincing and easily understanding terms, the few policies that Canada must adopt to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades.

Simpson’s views have been published in Saturday Night, the Report on Business Magazine, The Journal of Canadian Studies, and Queen’s Quarterly. He has lectured at a number of prestigious institutions including Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and more than a dozen universities in Canada.

What does Jeffrey Simpson talk about?

HOT AIR: Fixing Canada’s Climate Change Catastrophe

Many presentations on energy and climate change are terrifying, academic or quirky, advocating a single, neat solution like solar or wind power. This presentation is different. Based on his book Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge, this presentation lays out in convincing and easily understandable terms the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right away in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades. Simpson even describes how these policies can be designed to have minimal negative effects. He provides results from highly credible energy-economy model that has been used internationally by many authorities, including the most advanced think tanks, to assess the full economic impacts of different policies. Hot Air shows why these are the only policies that will work – and why this is a matter of life and death for us all.

Politics, Power & Personalities: Who Really Calls The Shots In Canada

Jeffrey Simpson gives you an insider’s look at what’s happening in politics and the people who wield real power in Canada. He will share with you the insights and experiences he has gained as The Globe And Mail’s national affairs columnist since 1984. Simpson’s beat goes beyond the political to include the business leaders and others whose actions, words and agendas influence what happens in the legislatures across the country. He will introduce you to a world of intrigue and power you may have known existed but which you never fully understood. You will find out who makes the important decisions that impact your lives and businesses. This information provides a vital perspective on the development of your business strategy. He enables you to focus in on the key players and events that create the context for the future of your industry. Simpson’s speeches have the same authority as his columns. They are based on a dedication to expose the workings of power. He gives power a human face and interprets developments so you can better determine your future.

Star Spangled Canadians: Who's Made It And How South Of The Border

This speech is Canada’s premier political journalist’s personal account of the personalities who’ve made it South of the border. While you will enjoy his celebration of your compatriots' success, Simpson goes beyond this and inquires into the not so unique qualities that made that success possible. In so doing he provides an incisive analysis of the lure of the US and those aspects of the Canadian personality that determine success there. Simpson’s unique approach will teach businesses and individuals how to play to their strengths in the US. You will gain a better understanding of what it is to be Canadian and how to leverage that knowledge to prosper in the most competitive economy and society in the world.