Althia Raj is a Canadian political journalist and a member of the
Parliamentary Press Gallery.
She is a regular columnist with the
Toronto Star
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.
She was formerly the Ottawa Bureau Chief for ''
HuffPost
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Canada'', where she managed the
Quebec City
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bureau and hosted and produced the politics podcast ''Follow-Up''
until BuzzFeed purchased HuffPost and abruptly ended Canadian operations. Her team has held live town halls with Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau
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, Finance Minister
Bill Morneau
William Francis Morneau Jr. (born October 7, 1962) is a Canadian businessman and former Liberal Party politician who served as minister of finance and member of Parliament (MP) for Toronto Centre from 2015 to 2020.
Morneau was executive chai ...
and Heritage Minister
Melanie Joly. She went to school at McGill University, and is a francophone.
Prior to joining ''HuffPost'' in August 2011,
Raj worked as a national political reporter for
Postmedia News
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and has also reported from
Parliament Hill
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for
Sun Media and has been a producer for
CTV and for
CBC Radio
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's weekly national political magazine, ''
The House''.
[
Raj is also a regular panellist on ]CBC News Network
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's ''Power & Politics
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'' program and appears weekly as a panelist alongside Andrew Coyne
James Andrew Coyne (born December 23, 1960) is a Canadian columnist with ''The Globe and Mail'' and a member of the ''At Issue'' panel on CBC's '' The National''. Previously, he has been national editor for ''Maclean's'' and a columnist with ''Na ...
and Chantal Hébert
Chantal St-Cyr Hébert (born 1954) is a Canadian journalist and political commentator.
Life and career
Hébert was born on April 24, 1954, in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the oldest of five children. In 1966 her family moved to Toronto where the 12 ...
on ''At Issue'' on CBC's '' The National'' hosted by Rosemary Barton. Raj also assists with coverage on various CPAC programs.[
In 2016, Raj was in conflict with Senator ]Leo Housakos
Leonidas Housakos (born January 10, 1968) is a Canadian politician who has served as the senator for Wellington, Quebec since January 8, 2009. A member of the Conservative Party, Housakos was appointed on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen ...
when she named him as the source of a leak
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regarding the Senate's spending audit the previous year. Housakos replied by accusing Raj of conducting a smear campaign against him and demanded an apology when she accused him of lying.
On February 28, 2018, Raj moderated the second all-candidates debate for the 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election.
Before becoming a journalist, Raj worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. She later worked at the Canadian Mission to the United Nations in New York City
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.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian political journalists
HuffPost writers and columnists