Paul Palango
{{Short description|Canadian writer and retired journalist}}{{Infobox person
| name = Paul Palango
| birth_date = 1950
| birth_place = Ontario, Canada
| occupation = Author, newspaper editor, investigative journalist
| notable_works = 22 Murders (2022 book)
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Paul Palango (born 1950) is a Canadian author and investigative journalist. Palango worked as a journalist and editor for The Hamilton Spectator and The Globe and Mail. He has written four non-fiction books about policing in Canada, including 22 Murders.
Early life
Palango was born in 1950 in Ontario, Canada.{{Cite news |last=Ali |first=Leena |date=28 May 2014 |title=Rural Artists Thinking Big |pages=C1 |work=Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin |url=https://www.lighthousenow.ca/papers/PB_20140528.pdf}}{{Cite book |last=Palango |first=Paul |url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2176855&R=2176855 |title=Above the law |language=en}}
Career
In the 1970s he worked for The Hamilton Spectator before moving to The Globe and Mail in 1977 and remaining there until 1990 when he retired as an editor.{{Cite news |last=Johnston |first=Douglas J. |date=2022-05-14 |title=RCMP's many shortcomings chronicled in account of N.S. massacre |language=en-CA |work=Winnipeg Free Press |url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/justice-denied-576498482.html |access-date=2022-06-12}}{{Cite web |last=Bing |first=Hannah |title=The duty to investigate |url=https://signalhfx.ca/the-duty-to-investigate/ |access-date=2022-06-12 |website=The Signal |language=en-US}} Palango is noted for his reporting on authority figures including the Canadian police, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Canadian media, and business leaders.{{Cite news |last=McKenna |first=Paul |date=2009-02-10 |title=Author doesn't get the RCMP |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/author-doesnt-get-the-rcmp/article1148693/ |access-date=2022-06-12}} In 2000, he opened a glass art business in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
He returned to writing, publishing 22 Murders in 2022, his critical account of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police response to the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks. The book was the second on the Toronto Star's list of bestselling non-fiction in Canada in April 2022.{{Cite news |date=2022-04-20 |title=The bestselling books in Canada for the week ending April 20, 2022 |language=en-CA |work=The Toronto Star |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2022/04/20/the-bestselling-books-in-canada-for-the-week-ending-april-20-2022.html |access-date=2022-06-12 |issn=0319-0781}}
The Georgia Straight editor, Charlie Smith, described Palango as "one of Canada's last remaining investigative reporters." in August 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-06 |title=Here's why B.C. residents need to pay attention to the Mass Casualty Commission in Nova Scotia |url=https://www.straight.com/news/heres-why-bc-residents-need-to-pay-attention-to-mass-casualty-commission-in-nova-scotia |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=The Georgia Straight |language=en}}
In June 2025, Palango released a follow-up book to 22 Murders, titled Anatomy of a Cover-Up.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/742023/anatomy-of-a-cover-up-by-paul-palango/9781039010123
Books
- Above the Law, 1994, McClelland & Stewart, {{ISBN|978-0-7710-6905-5}}
- The Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP - and Canada, 1998, McClelland & Stewart, {{ISBN|978-0-7710-6906-2}}
- Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP, 2008, Key Porter Books, {{ISBN|978-1-55470-042-4}}{{Cite web |date=2008-11-07 |title=Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP - Quill and Quire |url=https://quillandquire.com/review/dispersing-the-fog-inside-the-secret-world-of-ottawa-and-the-rcmp/ |access-date=2022-06-12 |website=Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2009-04-07 |title=Paul Palango cites training, recruitment as factors in Vancouver police shootings |url=https://www.straight.com/article-213128/paul-palango-cites-training-recruitment-factors-vancouver-police-shootings |access-date=2022-06-12 |website=The Georgia Straight |language=en}}
- 22 Murders, 2022, Random House Canada, {{ISBN|978-1-0390-0127-5}}https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/688124/22-murders-by-paul-palango/9781039001275
- Anatomy of a Cover-Up: The Truth about the RCMP and the Nova Scotia Massacres, 2025, Random House Canada, {{ISBN|978-1039010123}}https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/742023/anatomy-of-a-cover-up-by-paul-palango/9781039010123
Personal life
Palango lives in Nova Scotia.
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