Christie Blatchford studied journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto and wrote for the campus newspaper, The Eyeopener. She subsequently worked as a sports reporter for the Globe and Mail and a coluimnist at the Toronto Star before moving to the Toronto Sun. She remained at the tabloid for almost twenty years, first as a lifestyle columnist and then as a city columnist featured on page five of the paper. She was hired away by the National Post prior to the new newspaper's launch. As the Post floundered in recent years she jumped into a columnist's job at The Globe and Mail.