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ジョージ・チャールズ・スチュワート・ベインOC（1920年1月29日 - 2006年5月14日）はカナダのジャーナリストで、カナダの新聞社で初めて国内問題担当特派員に任命された人物である。[ 1 ]アラン・フォザリンガムはベインを「オタワに登場した中で最も機知に富んだコラムニスト」と評し、 [ 2 ]ダグ・フィッシャーはベインを「完璧なコラムニストに最も近い人物」であり、自分が手本にしようとしたコラムニストだと述べた。[ 3 ]
オンタリオ州トロント生まれ。16歳でトロント・テレグラムに入社し、後に一般記者兼市役所担当記者となった。第二次世界大戦中は、カナダ空軍で爆撃機パイロットとして従軍した。戦後、1945年10月にグローブ・アンド・メールに入社し、市役所および州政担当の一般記者となった。1952年に国内問題担当記者兼コラムニストとなり、その後、ロンドン（1957年～ 1960年）とワシントン（1960年～ 1964年）で海外特派員を務めた後、オタワ支局に戻った。1964年から1969年にかけては、ダグ・フィッシャーと共にダグ・フィッシャー・アンド・…やCJOH-TVのクエスチョン・ピリオド[ 4 ]にも出演した。[ 5 ]
ベインは執筆活動において論争を避けることはなかった。ピエール・トルドーが10月の危機への対応として戦時措置法を発動した際、彼はその初期の反対者であり、後にトルドーが下院で宣誓したにもかかわらず、その後そのことについて正直に話さなかったことを非難した。これは後に「ファドル・ダドル事件」として知られるようになった。[ 6 ]しかし、 1973年にベインがグローブ紙からスター紙に移籍した際、「ベインはどこにいるんだ？」と最初に尋ねたのはトルドーだった。[ 7 ]
In his column (which appeared five times a week in the Globe), he occasionally offered comic relief for his readers under the title of Letter from Lilac, ostensibly written by Clem Watkins, Jr. of Lilac, Saskatchewan (where the local branches of the Royal Canadian Legion and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament had a joint membership arrangement).[8] He was characterized as "a rural Pepys reporting on the state of the nation."[9] In one such letter, which was an allegory for the 1960s controversy over the unification of the Canadian Forces, Clem reported on the Lilac town council's move to unify its police, fire and ambulance services:
Also, they'll all be in the one hall. Silk Scarf says there have been anomalies and inequities between the services, like, for instance, the policemen not having a pole to slide down when they go on call. He says that when he's got them all up the pole together, like Paul Hellyer has the admirals, generals and air marshals, it's going to work wonders for morale. Just like in Ottawa.[10]
In 1973, he joined the Toronto Star, initially as an editorial page editor, and then as European correspondent (1974–1977), and Ottawa columnist (1977–1981). In 1981, he returned to The Globe and Mail to write a weekly column (and, from 1985, a monthly column for its Report on Business Magazine) which lasted until 1987, when he left after a protracted and bitter exchange with Editor-in-Chief Norman Webster.[11] The Globe refused to print his final column, but Doug Fisher subsequently arranged to have it appear in the Toronto Sun.[12] In it, he said:
The eventual final parting has been in the works for some time in circumstances of extraordinary unpleasantness ... and when I sat down this morning ... ready to add another to what must be more than 3,000 columns, on this page, I found myself asking, "What in hell am I doing here?" ... I'll be seeing you around. But not here, not here.[13]
He continued to write his "Media Watch" column for Maclean's, wine pieces for Toronto Life and enRoute, and weekly political commentary for The Chronicle Herald and The Mail-Star in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[14]
In 1979, he became director of the School of Journalism at University of King's College. He retired in 1985, settling in Mahone Bay.[15]
In 1944, he married Marion Jene Breakey. She died in 1998. They had one son, Christopher.[16]
In 2000, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for having "contributed greatly to the development of journalism in Canada".[17] He also received honorary degrees from Carleton University in 1983[18] and from University of King's College in 1986.[19]