Chantal Hébert
Political Raconteur & Columnist
Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer with the Toronto Star as well as a guest columnist for Le Devoir. She is a weekly participant on the political panel at Issue on CBC’s The National. Ms Hébert started her career in 1975 as a reporter for the regional television and radio newsroom of Radio-Canada in Toronto. She then went on to cover Queen’s Park and become a national reporter for Radio-Canada radio. On Parliament Hill, she served as correspondent for Radio-Canada as well as bureau chief for Le Devoir and La Presse.
Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer for the Toronto Star based on Parliament Hill, as well as a guest columnist with the Montreal daily Le Devoir and a member of the CBC’s The National’s weekly At Issue panel. She blogs on the website of the French-language magazine L’Actualité.
Hébert is a regular participant in other television and radio current affairs shows in French and in English. Prior to taking her position, Hébert worked as the Montreal correspondent for the Toronto Star from February 1999 to September of the same year. She started her career in 1975 in Toronto working for Radio-Canada television news.
She has served as parliamentary bureau chief for La Presse and Le Devoir as well as a parliamentary radio correspondent for Radio-Canada.
Hébert is the 2005 recipient of APEX’s Public Service Citation as well as the 2006 recipient of the Hyman Solomon award for excellence in journalism and public policy.
She is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. As part of the Asia Pacific Foundation Fellowship program, she has traveled extensively to Japan, South-East Asia and Hong Kong.
Hébert penned her first book, French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec, published by Knopf Canada in Feburary 2007.
Born and raised in Ontario, Hébert was educated at Glendon College, York University. She holds an honourary doctorate from Bishops University.
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Public policy and national politics.
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You were a key contributor to a highly successful conference. We received tremendously positive feedback from delegates on this year's conference. One demonstrable way in which delegates communicated their support of the conference was by staying with us until the very end of the second day. It's typical to see some delegate drop off on the second day, but we didn't experience that which was a real testament to the delegate's engagement with the program and the quality of the speakers. You, in fact, received the very highest scores out of all of the Speakers who participated in our two-day conference. Thank you so much for your contributions to a highly successful conference. We truly appreciate the expertise and energy you brought to our audience.
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February 2007French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec
Chantal Hébert’s first book is both a post-mortem of the Canadian federation that died on January 23, 2006, the night of the last federal election, as well as a brilliant examination of our changing political future. French Kiss examines how the Conservative Party’s relationship with Quebec has and will continue to shape and influence Canadian politics.
Bio
Chantal Hébert est chroniqueuse aux affaires nationales basé sur la colline parlementaire pour le quotidien Toronto Star et chroniqueuse invitée au quotidien de Montréal Le Devoir. Elle participe régulièrement à diverses émissions d’information à la radio et à la télévision y compris le panel politique hebdomadaire At Issue dans le cadre de The National, le téléjournal de la CBC de même que l’émission Les coulisses du pouvoir à l’antenne de Radio-Canada. Elle anime également un blogue sur le site internet de l’Actualité.
En journalisme depuis 1975, elle a occupé successivement des postes à la télévision régionale et à la radio nationale de Radio-Canada à Toronto et à la colline parlementaire pour le Devoir et La Presse. Elle a été chroniqueuse invitée aux quotidiens Ottawa Citizen, London Free Press et National Post.
Chantal Hébert est diplômée du collège universitaire Glendon de l’Université York. Elle est « Senior Fellow » au collège Massey de l’Université de Toronto et détient un doctorat honorifique en droit civil de l’Université Bishops. Elle a été boursière de la fondation Asie-Pacifique (Malaisie et Japon) à deux reprises et récipiendaire de la mention de service public de l’APEX (2005). En 2006 elle a reçu le prix d’excellence en journalisme et politique publique Hyman Solomon et le Pinnacle Achievement Bryden Award de l’Université York. Elle est l’auteur d’un ouvrage intitulé : French Kiss : Stephen Harper et le Québec publié simultanément dans les deux langues en 2007.
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