Daniel Dale Toronto Star, Wiki, Age, Bio, Wikipedia, Washington Post

Name Daniel Dale

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB Born in 1986. As of 2025, he is around 39 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Spouse / Partner / Dating He is in a relationship with Kelsey Shamburger. Kelsey has a Twitter account, where she often tweets in support of Daniel. She occasionally shares pictures of her dog ‘Breezey’ too.

Information / Biography Profile

Introduction :

One of Canada’s leading young journalists, Daniel Dale is an award-winning reporter for the Toronto Star.
Daniel is a winner of many prestigious awards & several endorsements from his colleagues and from highly skilled journalists & news writers.
He twice won the prestigious Edward Goff Penny Award & his career has even taken him from his home town to the US to serve as the Washington Correspondent.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Daniel studied at York University’s Schulich School of Business in Toronto from 2003 to 2008 & graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration.
He interned at Toronto Star in Summer 2007.

Profession, Salary and Career :

Fresh out of university, Daniel landed a job as City Reporter for The Toronto Star, Canada’s leading online news network.
Beginning in September 2008, he covered news stories in Toronto & wrote feature articles.
In December 2010, Daniel took the next step in his career and became the City Hall Reporter and covered Rob Ford’s term as Mayor of Toronto.
Around February 2013 he also took on the job of Acting Bureau Chief of the Toronto Star.
In January 2015 Daniel left Toronto & became the Washington Correspondent for the Toronto Star.
He now reports on news in the Washington area & covers US political stories.
While covering the 2016 presidential elections & pre-election campaigns, he has attended Trump rallies & interviewed many of Trump’s Supporters.

Political Experience & Life as a Journalist :

Daniel told Toronto Life that his experience covering Rob Ford’s term had made him more prepared to take the Trump campaign seriously, even in the early stages.
He commented on the similarity between the devotion of Trump supporters to Ford’s backers as well as events that parallelled developments in the Canadian campaign.
Funnily, Daniel described Donald Trump’s hair as “a flowey inescapable flouF of tousled blondness”.

Awards and Achievements :

At the age of 24, Daniel was awarded his first Edward Goff Penny Award for ‘Young Canadian Journalists’ in the 25,000 circulation category in March 2010.
In 2011, he won the award again, this time for his report on a 4-year project by former Mayor David Miller to convert 13 of Toronto’s poorest areas into prospering communities.

Controversy & Scandal :

In December 2013, in an interview with Conrad Black, Rob Ford made some implications that Daniel was a pedophile and stated that the reporter had been taking photos of his young children in the back garden of their home in Etobicoke in May 2012.
Daniel was quick to take action and issued a legal notice against the politician.
He reportedly intended to take Ford to court if he didn’t receive a full apology.
Initially, Ford refused to apologize, but later issued an apology which was rejected by Daniel.
His second apology via an open letter was accepted, and Daniel dropped the lawsuit.