 He also worked as a journalist for the "Edmonton Journal" and "Toronto Telegram" in the 1960s and 1970s, and as sportswriter for "The Globe and Mail" in the 1970s.Moonlighting for "The Hockey News" under the pseudonym "Mike Gamble", he wrote a profile of 16-year-old junior hockey player Wayne Gretzky, and may have been the first person to use the phrase "The Great Gretzky".Proctor entered electoral politics when he won a seat in the 1997 federal election representing the Saskatchewan riding of Palliser.