Stephen Weir
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Stephen Weir is a well-known Toronto communicator. He is an active publicist working on many important cultural projects including the Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival (Caribana), McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.

Weir has worked on assignments for Space Canada, OPSEU, the Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted, The Ontario Science Centre, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Varley Gallery, the Sharon Temple and Toronto’s Marine Museum. He has handled PR assignments for a number of well-known authors, artists and public figures including Johnnie Cochran, Hurricane Carter, Robert Bateman, Bob Rae, Norval Morrisseau and Tim Cook.

He has written for a number of TV shows including the TSN 13-part airplane series Sky High that continues to find audiences around the world. Stephen Weir is also an active journalist who has one non-fiction book published (The Sinking of the Mayflower) under his own name and has ghost written two other books. For thirty years he has been researching, watching and writing about the History of Diving in the Movies. Mr. Weir is the travel editor of Diver Magazine and is a regular condo story contributor to daily Toronto newspapers.

Blog Entries by Stephen Weir

These Shutterbugs Have Nothing to be Camera Shy About

(0) Comments | Posted May 8, 2012 | 7:37 AM

If you can get a photographer to talk, oh the stories you will hear...

Over the years I have handled publicity assignments for some of Canada's best known artists, authors, and, now and then, photographers. Although one shouldn't make sweeping generalizations about the personality traits of red hot artists, when...

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My Brief Moment with the Grey Cup

(1) Comments | Posted April 30, 2012 | 10:21 AM

I helped the New Dawn Moravian Church last week with a fun event here in Toronto. The church, located in the Vaughan Rd / Oakwood neighbourhood, has a very famous person it its congregation. Shawn Gore attended Sunday School in the church when he was very young. He...

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Don't Trust Me With Your LinkedIn Info

(0) Comments | Posted April 3, 2012 | 5:22 PM

For the second time in a month, an investigative criminal reporter has called me looking for info on people that I am linked into through the popular business social network LinkedIn.

The last time it was concerning a case of medical fraud, and one of my LinkedIn contacts was related...

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How Steve Jobs Transformed PR

(0) Comments | Posted January 11, 2012 | 11:34 AM

Last month when the Ontario Science Centre (OSC) held a media launch for an exhibition of miniature2012-01-13-1weir.jpg working models of some of Leonardo da Vinci's greatest inventions, Massimiliano Lisa, curator of the traveling show, dedicated the day to the memory of Steven Job....

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