Today in Canada’s Political History: Happy birthday Wendy Mesley!

It is a great pleasure to send out birthday greetings from Art’s History to one of Canada’s most significant broadcast journalists, Wendy Mesley. Born in Montreal, she started her career with CTV in 1979. Mesley soon moved over to CBC. She rose through the ranks at the public broadcaster to host some of the CBC’s  flagship news and current affairs shows. She was also the regular Sunday anchor for The National. Mesley parted ways with the CBC in 2021 and is now enjoying great success as co-host (with Maureen Holloway) of the podcast, Women of Ill Repute. You can listen to episodes of the new show at https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-women-of-ill-repute/id1630676325

Happy birthday from Kingston and Art’s History Ms. Mesley! Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist.  He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.  A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.


Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.