Francine Pelletier (born c. 1955) is a journalist based in

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, Canada. She is the founder of a feminist newspaper, ''La Vie en Rose'', and has written for '' La Presse'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. After the

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on December 6, 1989, in which 14 women were murdered by Marc Lepine, she lobbied for the public release of the gunman's suicide letter. It was leaked to her on November 22, 1990, and was subsequently published in ''La Presse''. The letter included a list of 19 prominent Quebec feminists whom Marc Lepine had apparently wished to target, and her name was one of those listed. She has been a commentator on the

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program, ''The Editors'', and has worked as a correspondent for CBC Television on '' The National Magazine'' and as a co-host of '' the fifth estate''. Since leaving the CBC, Pelletier has become a documentary filmmaker, having produced ''Monsieur'', a film about former Quebec Premier

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.Francine Pelletier, Filmmaker and Journalist
"The 2004 Canada Reads Panelists," ''CBC.ca'', accessed 27 December 2006 In 2015 she was awarded the Michener-Deacon fellowship in Journalism Education and began teaching in the Journalism Department at Montreal's Concordia University. In 2020 she was named the department's journalist-in-residence.

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