Bruce Phillips (journalist)
James Bruce Ross Phillips  (June 6, 1930 – December 6, 2014), known professionally as Bruce Phillips, was a Canadian television journalist and civil servant. He was best known as the Parliament Hill bureau chief of CTV News, and host of the political talk show Question Period, from 1968 to 1985. As host of Question Period, he was particularly noted for his year-end interviews with Prime Ministers. Born in Fort William, Ontario, in 1930, he had his first job out of high school as a reporter for the Port Arthur News-Chronicle; his father, Alexander Phillips, was at the time the editor of the competing Fort William Times-Journal. He later worked for the Portage la Prairie Press, the Calgary Herald, Canadian Press and Southam News.