Robert (Bob) Hunter (born 1941 in St. Boniface, Manitoba) is a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. A co-founder of Greenpeace in 1972 with Patrick Moore, David McTaggart and Paul Watson, Hunter has been a long-time campainger for environmental causes and helped lead a successful campaign to ban commerical whaling.
Hunter's career in journalism began in the 1960s at the Winnipeg Tribune and the Vancouver Sun, where he focused on the counterculture as well as environmental issues. Since 1988, he has worked as a commentator and reporter for Toronto's Citytv. He was also the longtime "Enviro" columnist in Toronto's eye weekly.
Hunter surprised many when he entered politics as a candidate for the Ontario Liberal Party in a 2001 provincial by-election in Beaches--East York. Hunter's environmentalism had led many to assume that his politics were more in line with the New Democratic Party or the Greens, and he had frequently criticized Liberal politicians in his columns. After a bitter campaign, which included accusations that a novel written by Hunter some years ago bordered on child pornography due to a scene depicting an incident of sex tourism in Thailand, which was written in the first-person. Hunter lost by almost 4,000 votes to Michael Prue of the NDP. In 2002, he called for the Liberals and the Ontario Green Party to form an electoral alliance.
More recently, Hunter has been in the spotlight for his public fight against prostate cancer.
Bob Hunter has written numerous books including Erebus; The Enemies Of Anarchy; The Storming Of The Mind; Greenpeace; Greenpeace III: Journey Into The Bomb; To Save The Whale; Warriors Of The Rainbow; The Greenpeace Chronicle; Cry Wolf; On The Sky: Zen And The Art Of International Freeloading and 2030 : Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime. He has also written on matters relating to aboriginal rights in Canada, and remains in contract with Greenpeace and other environmental groups.
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