Adrienne Batra (born November 9, 1973) is a Canadian journalist and publicist. She has been

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of the ''

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'' since May 2015. Batra was born in

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, the youngest daughter of Harbir and Deepi Batra. Her parents were teachers who had immigrated to Canada from

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in 1967, by way of

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. After graduating from high school in 1991, Batra joined the

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of the Canadian Armed Forces where she obtained the officer rank of Lieutenant. After obtaining university degrees in political science and public administration she joined the Regina office of the

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as a researcher, eventually becoming its

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director. She and her husband moved to

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in 2008 and, during the 2010 mayoral election Batra worked as communications director on

Rob Ford Robert Bruce Ford (May 28, 1969 – March 22, 2016) was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014. Before and after his term as mayor, Ford was a city councillor representing Ward 2 Etobi ...

's successful campaign for mayor. She subsequently joined the mayor's office, serving as Ford's

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for a year until she resigned in December 2011 to become the ''Toronto Suns Comment Editor. She also became

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Newstalk 1010's municipal affairs correspondent and wrote a column in the ''Sun'' on municipal affairs. In November 2013, she joined the

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as host of ''Straight Talk'', an afternoon news and comment program, and took a leave of absence from her position as a ''Sun'' comment editor, though continuing as a columnist, in order to work for the network full-time until the channel went off the air in February 2015. She was the fill-in host on CFRB radio as its weekday afternoon "Live Drive" host. Batra rejoined the ''Toronto Sun'' staff in May 2015 to become the paper's editor-in-chief. Batra describes herself as a libertarian and is a fan of Ayn Rand and

Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...

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