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Dan was born in
Toronto July 27th 1951 in Toronto Ontario, to Dorothy-Jane Needles (broadcaster and writer) and George William Needles (Stratford Festival stage actor and Veteran). Raised partly in the city and the country. His mother moved the family out of the city each spring to a hobby farm near
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Australia. He piled lumber in a sawmill in northern British Columbia for a summer and spent another cycling around England and France exploring battlefields, serving beer in a pub and picking agricultural
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Ontario. There he created a column called the Letter from Wingfield
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Ontario government from 1976-81 at Queen’s Park in Toronto. In 1981 he was director of public affairs for Canada’s oldest life insurance company, Canada Life.
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