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MULLIGAN SUDBURY
For Immediate Release
April 28, 2017

Carol Mulligan begins new fight for the citizens of Sudbury

SUDBURY, ON - Journalist Carol Mulligan has announced she is seeking the nomination for the New Democratic
Party in the provincial riding of Sudbury in the June 2018 election. Mulligan, 64, will put four decades of
experience as an award-winning reporter and editor to work, campaigning on issues she wrote about for 15
years at The Sudbury Star.

Years of reporting on the alternate level of care crisis, doctor shortages and long waits for medical care brought
Mulligan face to face with hundreds of suffering, disaffected Sudburians. She wrote extensively about the Mining
Health, Safety and Prevention Review and covered inquests into miners deaths. Mulligan wrote investigative
features about issues such as telemedicine walk-in clinics and the way in which the Workplace Safety Insurance
Board is failing injured and ailing Sudburians. Her ability to connect with people from all walks of life is perhaps
her greatest strength.

Mulligan left The Sudbury Star earlier this year to look for another challenge. She has found it. Politics was not
on her post-retirement agenda, but several citizens encouraged her to seek the NDP nomination. Entering
provincial politics will allow me to continue to fight for people who are struggling and against those who are
making Sudburians struggles more difficult, said Mulligan.

Brenda Tessaro, spokeswoman for the Sam Bruno PET Steering Committee, said Mulligan is an ideal candidate
for the NDP. Carol put her heart and soul into working with the committee. Carol is a person of the people,
for the people, who over her career made it a point to cover stories having roots in injustice. Her dedication
affected change and improved the quality of life in many areas for the citizens of Sudbury.

Mulligans former Sudbury Star editor, Brian MacLeod, said Mulligan has a profound and sincere concern for
the welfare of people. She is tenacious in championing the rights of those who otherwise might not have a
voice. Her compassion and extraordinary resolve were the hallmarks of her career in journalism.

Mulligan is well-known to Sudburians. She regularly scooped Toronto media on the biggest scandal of the
Kathleen Wynne government, the Lougheed-Sorbara affair. Her story quoting then-Conservative Industry
Minister Tony Clement saying Sudbury would have become the valley of death had Vale not purchased Inco
in 2006 outraged Sudburians and sparked a national debate. Mulligan wrote hundreds of articles about elderly
people being warehoused in hospital, awaiting long-term care or help to return home. She reported on mining
deaths and inquests, and wrote countless stories about the strike by United Steelworkers Local 6500 against
Vale from 2009-2010.

A date for the nomination meeting has not been set. Information on Mulligans campaign can be found at
facebook.com/mulligansudbury.

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Contact: Mike Bleskie Carol Mulligan
Campaign Communications Chair Candidate
(613) 501-7894 (705) 207-4821
mike@bleskie.ca carolmulligan@outlook.com
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MULLIGAN SUDBURY
BIOGRAPHY
Carol Mulligan was born in Sudbury, the daughter of hard-rock miner Ernie Mulligan, who worked at Incos
Creighton Mine in the 1950s and early 1960s. After her father died in 1963 at 40, her mother Anna moved her
two daughters to Little Current on Manitoulin Island. Mulligan lived there until she left to attend Western Univer-
sity, and considers herself a dual citizen of Sudbury and Manitoulin.

Mulligan worked at newspapers in Yellowknife, York Region, the Almaguin area, Espanola and the City of North
York for a dozen years, returning to Sudbury in 1986 as managing editor of a community newspaper. She
worked there 12 years, on the street where she lived in an upstairs apartment with her family when she was
a toddler. Her family moved to Minnow Lake in the mid-1950s where Carol would later buy a home. When her
family lost its home during the 1958 strike at Inco, they moved to Whitefish where she lived until her father died
when she was 11 and the family moved to Manitoulin.

Her first job, at age 12, was addressing copies of the Manitoulin Expositor, where her mother was a typesetter.
In a decade of journalism in other parts of Ontario, Mulligan earned honours for newspaper design and feature
writing. When she was editor of the Sudbury paper, it won awards for general excellence and design. Mulligan
moved to The Sudbury Star in 1999 as a page editor until a four-month lockout in 2002. After walking a picket
line for the first time in her career, Mulligan was bumped back to beat reporting. She considers it the luckiest
break of her life.

While at The Star, Mulligan was a three-time finalist in the Ontario Newspaper Awards for features such as a
two-part series on residents and mental health professionals fighting the Workplace Safety Insurance Board.
She ended her career with a series about the frustration, sorrow and anger of the families of two men killed in a
mine who fear they will never get justice for their loved ones needless deaths.

From 2014 until she left the paper, Mulligan wrote frequently about the Lougheed-Sorbara affair. She wrote a
weekly column for more than 30 Sun Media newspapers and appeared as a guest on Global Television, TVOn-
tarios The Agenda and CBC television, commenting on issues such as the Steelworkers strike and the Liberal
scandal.

Known for being scrappy and no-holds-barred, Mulligan was arrested in November 2012 while covering a pro-
test by an anti-poverty group at the office of Sudburys Liberal MPP. She was handcuffed and taken away by
police while trying to take photographs of citizens peacefully staging a sit-in. She was never charged.