Lysiane Gagnon is a
Canadian
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journalist based in
Quebec
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. She has written for
Montreal
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's ''
La Presse'' since 1980 and
Toronto
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's ''
Globe and Mail
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'' since 1990.
Gagnon was born in Montreal in 1941. From 1975 to 1980, she was a
parliamentary
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correspondent
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. In 1975 she received the
, and has twice (in 1976 and 1982) been awarded the National Newspaper Awards prize. In 1984 she received the Salon de Montréal literary prize for her
essay
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''Vivre avec les hommes : un nouveau partage'' (Living with Men: A New Partnership). She has also published two collections of her columns, ''Chroniques politiques'' (Boreal, 1985) and ''L'esprit de contradiction'' (Boreal, 2010).
In her columns, Gagnon takes positions in regards to
federalism
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and
feminism
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.
Some argue that she is a prominent defender of
Israel
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(Of all Quebec's francophone columnists). She has written extensively about the need to protect the French language in Quebec and Canada.
References
Living people
Canadian women journalists
Canadian columnists
The Globe and Mail columnists
Canadian women columnists
Journalists from Montreal
Canadian political journalists
Canadian women non-fiction writers
Writers from Montreal
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian social commentators
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