Stephen Clarkson
Well known political scientist Stephen Clarkson has died at 78 in Freiburg, Germany after contracting the pneumonia virus in Portugal followed by incurable sepsis. This is reported by the University of Toronto’s political science department, where Clarkson taught for several decades. Clarkson’s work focused on areas including the North American Free Trade Agreement and how Canada has been affected by globalization. In 1990, he and then-wife Christina McCall won the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction for “Trudeau and Our Times.” The second volume of that book won the J.W. Dafoe prize. In 2011, Clarkson was named a member of the Order of Canada. His other books included “The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics,” “Canada and the Reagan Challenge,” and “Uncle Sam and Us.” He was once married to former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. U of T obituary