Christopher William Ward (born 28 July 1949 Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian songwriter and broadcaster, known as a former long-standing on-air personality at MuchMusic, Canada's music video network, where he and J.D. Roberts were among the first video jockeys in 1984. Ward was a judge on The Next Star which is a Canadian reality television show on YTV.

Early career

Ward began his music career in the early 1970s while attending Trent University in Peterborough Ontario where he was a member of the school's campus radio station.

Broadcasting

Some of Ward's early television appearances began in 1978 on the CBC children's series Catch Up, as leader of the show's band. He also played a minor role as a musician in an episode of The Kids of Degrassi Street alongside Alannah Myles in 1984.

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Christopher Ward was a British author, journalist, editor, and publisher. He was also the grandson and biographer of Jock Hume, a violinist who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic and one of the members of the band which continued playing while the ship sank.

Career

Ward began his career as a journalist in 1959 working at local newspapers, the Driffield Times and the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. He then moved to national daily, the Daily Mirror, in 1963 where he worked as a reporter, columnist and sub-editor before becoming assistant editor at the Mirror and its sister paper the Sunday Mirror in 1976. After five years in this position, Ward left the Mirror in 1981 to become editor at the Daily Express, a national daily newspaper, at age 38. He remained at the Express for two years, before leaving in 1983 to jointly found Redwood magazine publishers with Christopher Curry and Michael Potter.

Between 2002 and 2008, Ward was UK chairman of the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Christopher Ward (1836, Halifax – 1900, Barbon) was an English entomologist who specialised in butterflies.

He wrote African Lepidoptera, being descriptions of new species, published in London by Longmans, Green & Co. (1873-1875?). This quarto work in three parts has 16 pages and 18 plates, 12 of which are handcoloured. It is based on two papers Ward had previously published in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. These were "Descriptions of new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera From Madagascar" and "Descriptions of new species of African Diurnal Lepidoptera" (butterflies in this last work are depicted in Part 3 of African Lepidoptera but the text is omitted). This well-illustrated, rare work is an important contribution to the knowledge of the East African butterfly fauna as it contains descriptions of 55 new species chiefly from Madagascar, the Cameroons, Old Calabar and Ribé (East Africa). The now extinct Seychelles parakeet, Psittacula wardi was named in his honour.