Walter Douglas Stewart (April 19, 1931 – September 15, 2004) was an outspoken Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, a veteran of newspapers and magazines and author of more than twenty books, several of them bestsellers. The Globe and Mail reported news of his death with the headline: “He was Canada’s conscience.”
Books in order of publication:
Shrug: Trudeau in Power – 1971
Divide and Con: Canadian Politics at Work (New Press, 1973)
Hard to Swallow: Why Food Prices Keep Rising and What Can Be Done About It (Macmillan of Canada, 1974).
But Not in Canada! Smug Canadian Myths Shattered by Harsh Reality (Macmillan of Canada, 1976
As They See Us (McClelland and Stewart, 1977)
Strike! (McClelland and Stewart, 1977)
Paper Juggernaut: Big Government Gone Mad (McClelland and Stewart, 1979)
Towers of Gold, Feet of Clay: The Canadian Banks (Collins, 1982; Totem, 1983)
True Blue: The Loyalist Legend (Collins, 1985)
Uneasy Lies the Head: The Truth About Canada’s Crown Corporations (Collins, 1987)
The Wrong End of the Rainbow: The Collapse of Free Enterprise in Canada (Collins, 1988)
The Golden Fleece: Why the Stock Market Costs You Money (McClelland and Stewart, 1992)
Belly Up: The Spoils of Bankruptcy (McClelland and Stewart, 1995)
Bank Heist: How our Financial Giants are Costing You Money (HarperCollins, 1997).
Too Big to Fail: Olympia & York: The Story Behind the Headlines (McClelland and Stewart, 1993)
The Charity Game: Greed, Waste and Fraud in Canada’s $86-Billion-a-Year Compassion Industry – 1996
Dismantling the State: Downsizing to Disaster (Stoddart, 1998)
Right Church, Wrong Pew (Macmillan of Canada, 1990)
Hole in One (McClelland and Stewart, 1992).
M.J.: The Life and Times of M.J. Coldwell (Stoddart, 2000)
My Cross-Country Checkup: Across Canada by Minivan, Through Space and Time (Stoddart, 2000)
Remembering (Stoddart, 2001)
Life and Politics of Tommy Douglas (McArthur, 2003)
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