Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the iconography of mainstream popular culture, covering cinema, popular music, dance, theatre, broadcasting, technology and the arts.

Mr. Tomlin has written for Vancouver Magazine, and was the magazine’s Director of Special Projects. Over the years, Mr. Tomlin has worked as a syndicated columnist for many of the urban and suburban newspapers in the Metro Vancouver region, as well as across British Columbia, and in states across the United States of America.

Mr. Tomlin created Festival, a Vancouver-based arts magazine, in the 1990s, as well as acting as Arts and Entertainment editor of Two Chairs magazine.

Mr. Tomlin has taught all grades in both the public and private school systems, and has taught, as well, at the college and university level, focusing on Early Childhood Education, English Literature, writing, policy administration, curriculum development, journalism, history, and the impact of popular culture on social mores.

Mr. Tomlin has worked at all three levels of government: in planning and development at the municipal level; federally, as an administrator with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation; and provincially, as a policy administrator within British Columbia’s Ministry of Education.

Mr. Tomlin has two children he loves very much, a daughter — a loving and devoted mother to her three children — and a son he loves very much, who has long been and continues to be active in the music scene across British Columbia, in addition to his regular employment in the digital realm.

Mr. Tomlin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology; a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education) degree; and a Master of Arts degree in Policy Administration, all from Simon Fraser University.

Mr. Tomlin’s interests in recent years have been focused on the area of emergent new media, the administration of government at all three levels of decision-making — federally, provincially and municipally — and the importance of engaging in the democratic process, both as an activist in the community fighting for change, social justice and a fairer, more inclusive society, and at election time.

Mr. Tomlin, over the years, has also sought to provide thorough and consistent coverage of municipal, provincial and federal elections, in the post Writ period.