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Profile 3 - Greg Tilson
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.By Christine Hamelin with photography
by Bernard Clark
Greg Tilson’s life changed forever when he arrived in Kingston
in 2004. He discovered a captivating community with a lively arts
scene, and he never looked back. Since then, he has devoted himself
to strengthening and invigorating his community and celebrating
its artists.
Greg and his older sister, Janet, grew up in a beautiful rural area
north of Toronto, “where the Hockley Valley meets the Bruce
Trail.” He was never very interested in school; in high school,
he spent most of his time thinking about sports, especially basketball
and volleyball. But the Tilsons’ home life was quite stimulating.
“I grew up in a house of extremely divided party politics,”
Greg explains. His father, David, was a lifelong politician at all
levels, ranging from being a school board trustee to being the Conservative
MP for Dufferin-Caledon from 2004 until 2019. In contrast, his mother,
Ellen Clare, who died of cancer in 2004, “was this left-leaning
liberal feminist. He was quite right-wing, so you can imagine what
the conversations were like around the dinner table.”
Greg’s parents joked about their political differences, but
“there were definitely debates, which was positive.”
Greg remembers one period when his mother was the campaign manager
for the Liberal MPP candidate; . . .
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