Morton Shulman

Morton Shulman OC (25 April 1925 – 18 August 2000) was a Canadian politician, businessman, broadcaster, columnist, coroner, and physician. He first came to public notice as Ontario's Chief Coroner in the early 1960s. At the same time he became a very successful stock-market player and wrote a bestselling book on investing in the stock market. In the mid-1960s he embarrassed the provincial government when he found it to be disobeying provincial health and safety laws. He was fired and then ran for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, defeating a government Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP). He served two terms as the MPP for High Park from 1967 to 1975. In the late 1970s and 1980s he hosted a nationally distributed television talk show called The Shulman File. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the early 1980s and became a pharmaceutical entrepreneur specializing in treatments for that disease. Near the end of his life he was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian award.