Gary Mason

Gary Mason is a Canadian journalist. He currently is the national affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail, covering events in western Canada. A graduate of Langara College's journalism program, he started his career with the Victoria Times Colonist before moving to the Vancouver Sun, where he worked for nineteen years. Mason was hired by the Globe as part of an effort to expand the publication to British Columbia readers in 2005; his familiarity to local readers was a factor in his hiring. In 2015, he received the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award.

He is the co-author of John Furlong's memoir, Patriot Hearts: Inside the Games that Changed a Country.