Allen Garr

Who is Allen Garr?

Allen Garr is a journalist, author, and journalism instructor based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Garr is well known in the city for his editorials covering civic politics in the weekly Vancouver Courier newspaper. He is the author of Tough Guy: Bill Bennett and the taking of British Columbia, a book about the British Columbia Social Credit Party. Garr graduated from Simon Fraser University in 1968 and has since been a political commentator in various Canadian media outlets, including a five-year stint with the Vancouver Province newspaper and a decade with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's television news. He was an instructor in the journalism program at Langara College.