Ellen Roseman
Ellen Roseman (born July 1947) is a Canadian writer, journalist and lecturer specializing in personal finance and consumer issues. She currently writes a column handling consumer complaints for the Toronto Star and teaches at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. She has been an editor and columnist for the "Toronto Star" and "The Globe and Mail". She is the author of a number of books and co-author with Phil Edmonston of "The Canadian Consumers’ Survival Book". She lives in Toronto, Ontario and is married to Edward Trapunski. She has two children. Journalism career. Roseman was born  in July 1947 in Montreal, Quebec. She received a B.A. in 1968 from McGill University, where she was a reporter and features editor for "the McGill Daily" student newspaper. She received an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1969. Her journalism career began in 1969 at Maclean-Hunter in Toronto where she covered women’s wear at Style magazine and won two Kenneth R. Wilson awards for business writing. From 1975 to 1996, she was a columnist at the "Globe and Mail" specializing in consumer issues. She was appointed associate managing editor of the Globe’s business  section, the Report on Business, while continuing to write her column. She was Business Editor at the "Toronto Star" from 1997 to 1998 and a columnist from 1999 to 2016, writing about consumer and personal finance issues in the Business Section.