David Eddie

David Eddie is a Canadian writer, best known as a humorous advice columnist for The Globe and Mail.

His debut novel Chump Change was published in 1996, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Stephen Leacock Award and the Toronto Book Award in 1997. His second book, the non-fiction memoir Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad, was published in 1999, and was a shortlisted finalist for the Stephen Leacock Award in 2000.

In 2003, he began writing a regular column for the Canadian men's magazine Toro. He later joined The Globe and Mail, for which he writes the weekly column "Damage Control".