Thomas Walkom is national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star.^[1]

Prior to his current position, he was the Star's Queen's Park columnist covering Ontario politics for eight years, including the governments of Premiers Bob Rae and Mike Harris. Walkom wrote a book, Rae Days: the rise and follies of the NDP about the Rae government.^[1]

His full name is Thomas Lawrence Walkom, and he was born in 1950.^[2] In the 1980s, Walkom was a parliamentary reporter for The Globe and Mail based in Ottawa and then served as the newspaper's bureau chief in Tokyo.^[1] He has won two National Newspaper Awards for foreign reporting and column writing.^[1] During the Russo-Ukraine War, Walkom published a number of articles which were critical of Canada's support for Ukraine.