Macleans
Tobin Fights Fish War at the UN
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 10, 1995. Partner content is not updated. The year was 1980 and a 25-year-old Brian Tobin badly needed advice. Grit organizers wanted Tobin, a cocky former radio disc jockey, television newscaster and provincial Liberal party operative, to run in a traditionally Tory riding on Newfoundland's west coast.