Paula Todd

Paula Todd

Award-Winning Broadcaster

Paula Todd is an award-winning Canadian journalist, broadcaster, lawyer and author, who's worked with Canada's largest networks, newspapers and magazines as a TV host, investigative reporter, legal analyst, political columnist and feature writer. Her best-selling book, A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us, details the struggle of people around the world to turn tragedy into personal triumph. Paula holds degrees in both literature and law and sits on the board of directors for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.


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Paula Todd is an award-winning Canadian journalist, broadcaster, lawyer and author, who's worked with Canada's largest networks, newspapers and magazines as a TV host, investigative reporter, legal analyst, political columnist and feature writer.

Paula spent a number of seasons as reporter for CTV's W-Five, North America's longest running news magazine and Canada's #1 investigative news program. A former print reporter, Paula entered broadcasting full-time after more than a dozen years at the Toronto Star, where she worked as a political reporter, news reporter and feature writer. Todd also served as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. She is the author of the best-selling book, A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us.

Her best-selling book, A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us, details the struggle of people around the world to turn tragedy into personal triumph.

Paula, who holds degrees in literature and law, attended Osgoode Hall Law School and York University and sits on the board of directors of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. Based in Toronto, she works as a writer, media strategist and moderator.

  • A Quiet Courage

    What makes some people extraordinarily successful?

    When Paula Todd first sought out interview subjects for her new biography program, she hoped to profile successful people from all walks of life and document the secrets of their achievement. She was startled to discover that the key to triumph was often tragedy.

    Based on Paula Todd's widely viewed television show Person 2 Person on TVO, and her book , A Quiet Courage, Paula Todd shows us that it is often ordinary people who have something extraordinary to teach us. She will share compelling stories of how some people are able to survive the unimaginable – and thrive afterwards.
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    January 2004

    A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us

    Based on Paula Todd''s widely viewed television program Person to Person, an intimate biography show about human behaviour, "A Quiet Courage" shows us that it is often ordinary people who have something extraordinary to teach us. Todd explores the unique ways twelve fascinating men and women from around the world not only survive the unimaginable, but manage to thrive afterwards, including: an artist whose family is murdered; a sales clerk diagnosed with colon cancer who is given six months to live; an award-winning chef who is paralyzed in a car accident and is told he will never be able to cook again; a paramedic who suffers from critical incident stress disorder after discovering a murdered rape victim who closely resembles his fiancee; and a senior police officer who suffers clinical depression after investigating some of Canada''s most notorious murderers, including Paul Bernardo.