How Robert ‘Fife the knife’ broke the SNC-Lavalin story and 40 years of other scoops

The Globe and Mail bureau chief's vast source list and eye for detail has helped him expose numerous government scandals, including the SNC-Lavalin affair, which he broke with Steven Chase and Sean Fine.

'If you see that smile that he has, you know that he’s up to something, you know that he has something,' says Senator Jim Munson of Globe and Mail Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife, pictured. 'You know that he’s ready to pounce.'The Hill Times file photograph

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BY EMILY HAWS

March 13, 2019

Robert Fife, the Globe and Mail Ottawa bureau chief and one of the reporters behind the explosive SNC-Lavalin story that's rocked politics in Ottawa for a month, has been breaking stories for decades due to his vast netw...

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