User:AJPatterson

This is Tony Patterson's LinkedIn profile, created by himself: Tony writes infologs on cooperatives in Canada (search www for Co-op Canada Accelerator) and Ontario technology (www.scansite.ca), as well as a family-linked historiography (Rideau Canal And All That).

He is founding editor of SCAN and its forerunner, Silicon Valley NORTH, which had separate editions in Ottawa, Toronto, Alberta and BC.

Tony has also been an active speechwriter, with a client list that includes a prime minister, cabinet ministers and CEOs of major corporations. He has produced dozens of consultation seminars, bringing together more than 4,000 senior executives from the private sector with federal and provincial government ministers and deputies.

Educated by the Jesuits at Loyola in Montreal, after finishing college he went directly to editing community weekly newspapers. He has been host and writer of Projection, a CBC public affairs TV show dealing with change, producer of radio documentaries and a frequent commentator on business topics for CBC radio. He was associate editor of Financial Times of Canada and Canadian correspondent for The Economist, Business International and New Scientist, among other publications. He has written more than two million words for publication.

Born in Toronto, raised in Montreal, active in the West Indies where he resided (Barbados) from 1968 to 1972, he has lived since 1976 in Ottawa, where he came originally to be senior communications advisor to the Anti Inflation Board. He has six sons, two daughters, eleven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, who reside in Kamloops, Vancouver, Bowen Island, Yellowknife, Edmonton, Umiujaq, Ottawa, Gatineau, Île Perrot, Puerto Rico and Germany.

A tenth-generation Mètis (Onondaga+Canadienne), Tony has been a member of Mensa, Intertel and Team Canada for the World Cup of Poker and an instructor of Taoist Tai Chi & Lok Hup. He has won the CATA Award for Excellence in Science and Technology Reporting and the Print Media Award of the Ottawa Life Sciences Council.

Specialties:Publishing strategy and product development, editing, design, writing. Communications consulting. Speechwriting. Conference development and management. Discussion leader.