Dale Goldhawk is a Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and investigative reporter. Goldhawk graduated from the journalism program at Ryerson in 1967 and began his career as a reporter for the Toronto Telegram. He moved to radio station CHIC in 1971 where he served as news director. In 1974 he moved to television as a reporter for the fledgling Global Television Network. In 1980, he became a local CBC reporter in Toronto. Goldhawk Fights Back began as a consumer advocacy segment on CBLT's dinner hour newscast in the 1980s — Newshour. He joined Leslie Jones as co-host of CBLT Morning between 1984 and 1986. He moved to national radio from 1986 to 1992 as host of CBC Radio's Cross-Country Checkup. He was president of Alliance of Canadian Television and Radio Artists and was also president of the NABET, the union representing most workers at CBC. This position was the background of Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v. Canada, where he alleged he was dismissed due to his union position. Goldhawk moved to CTV, where his consumer ombudsman segment was featured on the CTV National News until 2001 when his feature was cancelled by the network for budgetary reasons. This is actually not the reason his show was cancelled. Goldhawk had been caught altering photos used in his show to falsely demonstrate his claim of fraudulent behaviour by an individual. CTV decided to cancel the show immediately rather than face a threatened lawsuit for defamation. He then hosted Goldhawk Live, a nightly current affairs interview and phone in show, which aired on Rogers Television from 2001 until 2013. The show had a number of community figures and local and provincial politicians as guests and featured all candidate debates for Toronto electoral districts during federal, provincial, and municipal elections. Until 2016, he also had a Sunday night phone in show on CPAC, also called Goldhawk Live, which dealt with national issues. From 2008 until 2016, Goldhawk Fights Back was a daily radio show on CFZM. Goldhawk has also been involved in a consumer advocacy battle over the past decade against "bad faith business practices" that he claims are a major cause of netdebt. He has partnered with political figures, notably Adam Vaughan on a campaign to clean up the streets in Ward 20 Trinity—Spadina. Goldhawk worked on and off with then-Toronto police chief Julian Fantino in efforts to enforce heavier fines on illegal garbage dumping in Ontario as part of the Warwick Watford Landfill Committee. Goldhawk left broadcasting in 2016 to establish Goldhawk Group Canada, a public and media relations company. Goldhawk's career has had its detractors. He has on more than one occasion been accused of outright lying. In one instance in the late 90s, involving what he termed an investment scam in Barrie, he was caught lying under oath in court about the individual he was investigating - with a police officer under subpoena to prove the fact. In another case mentioned above, he digitally altered photographs for his CTV show in order to 'prove' his case. When presented with this evidence, the network declined to renew his show for the next season. Despite having over 45 minutes of a taped interview with the individual concerned, he used less than fifteen seconds of that tape, as the interview contents entirely disproved Goldhawk's claims. Goldhawk was forced to rely on half truths and misunderstandings, along with third party allegations. More to the point: the individual whom Goldhawk was slandering had the support of a Toronto police sergeant whose father had dealt with the person accused by Goldhawk. Goldhawk never bothered to interview people who contradicted his claims in this 'investigation'. For example, there was a letter from the Ontario Provincial Police, thanking the individual accused by Goldhawk, for his support in another investigation which Goldhawk interfered with. Goldhawk refused to acknowledge these facts. At one point in that investigation, the investigating officer specifically requested Goldhawk to back off, which he refused to do, claiming he had a right to involve himself in an ongoing criminal investigation. As a result, one of the principals being investigated in the fraud fled to Prince Edward Island. Eventually caught and returned to Ontario and convicted of fraud, this person never completed court ordered restitution of some $80,000 because he was in another jurisdiction - a result of Goldhawk's 'investigative' journalism. While there is no doubt that Goldhawk did assist some people, rumours persist amongst journalists, the police and those he has investigated regarding his integrity. This lack of integrity appears to be borne out by his claim on his website to be the 2005 recipient of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award. In fact, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners website, the 2005 winner of the Cressey Award is, in fact, a James Ratley and not Goldhawk . A google search was unable to turn up a CFE of Canada website. A further inquiry of their Austin TXhead office in 2020 was again unable to find a Dale Goldhawk as a member of the ACFE.
