Graham Fraser

Graham Fraser (born 1946 in Ottawa, Ontario) is Canada's sixth Commissioner of Official Languages, and a former Canadian journalist and writer. He is the author of several books, both in English and French, and served as the National Affairs Correspondent for the Toronto Star, for which he also wrote a weekly column. He was also an adjunct professor of journalism at Carleton University from 2003-2008.

Fraser is the son of Blair Fraser, a respected newspaper and magazine reporter of the mid-20th century. Blair Fraser drowned on a canoe trip in 1968. Graham Fraser attended Upper Canada College and, later, studied at the University of Toronto where he obtained a BA in 1968 and an MA in History in 1973. During his career as a journalist, Fraser wrote for Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, The Toronto Star and Le Devoir.

Fraser's unusual abilities as a journalist writing in both of Canada's official languages gave him natural qualifications to be Canada's Commissioner of Official Languages. In early 2006 he published a book, Sorry, I Don't Speak French, which reviewed the successes and failures of Canada's policy of official bilingualism. It was largely on the basis of the book and of Fraser's bilingual work experience that Prime Minister Stephen Harper nominated Fraser to be Canada's next Commissioner of Official Languages in September 2006. The nomination was unanimously endorsed by the House of Commons on October 17.

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Vees confirm big move to become new expansion franchise in the WHL

The Lufkin News 26 Mar 2025
Longtime Penticton Vees owner Graham Fraser said the franchise had accomplished nearly everything it dreamed of over the past 20 years as a perennial powerhouse in the British Columbia Hockey League and now the time was right to take on ....
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WHL awards expansion franchise to Penticton Vees

TSN Canada 24 Mar 2025
The Penticton franchise will be owned and operated by Graham Fraser, who has been the majority owner of the British Columbia Hockey League’s Penticton Vees since June 2008. Fraser will migrate ...
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Official: Penticton Vees to join Western Hockey League for 2025-2026 season

Moosejaw Today 24 Mar 2025
The WHL Penticton franchise will be owned and operated by Graham Fraser, who has been the majority owner of the BCHL’s Penticton Vees since June 2008 ... “We are excited to welcome Graham ...
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