Morton Shulman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Politician, physician, businessman and broadcaster from Toronto, Canada.
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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Morton Shulman
- Morton Shulman, OC (25 April 1925 – 18 August 2000) was a Canadian politician, businessman, broadcaster, columnist, coroner, and physician.
- He was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1925 to a Jewish family.
- He first came to fame as Ontario's Chief Coroner in the early 1960s.
- During this period, he also became a very successful stock-market player, and authored a bestselling book about how to make money in the stock market.
- In the mid-1960s he embarrassed the provincial government when he found them to be disobeying provincial health and safety laws.
- He was fired and then ran for elected office in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, avenging himself by beating a government Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP).
- He completed two terms as the High Park electoral district's MPP, and did not run in the 1975 Ontario general election.
- His fame grew in the late 1970s and 1980s when 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 received recognition for his lifetime's work, when he was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian award.
- He died in Toronto in the year 2000.
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