Patrick Lagacé (born 1972) is a Canadian columnist and television host who currently publishes columns for ''

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'' newspaper and hosts a weekly television show on

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Biography

Lagacé was born in

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in 1972. Lagacé studied communications at the

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, where for two years he was editor of the student newspaper francophone ''

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''. He first worked as a researcher at the radio of

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on the morning show '' CBOF Hello''. He has worked on the weekly ''Le Carillon'' d' Hawkesbury (

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) as well as French daily ''

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'' of

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. He has worked in '' Journal de Montréal'' from 1999 until 2007 before moving to ''

'' in April 2007. He is also a columnist and has an opinion blog online. Patrick Lagacé also served as co-director of the newspaper of the Professional Federation of Quebec Journalists (FPJQ, 2000-2001) and was in charge of a course in journalism writing. He has appeared on a number of radio and television programmes, notably ''Lapierre et cie'' on CKAC, ''Grand journal'' on TQS, ''Newsworld'' on CBC and on LCN. In 2005, he co-hosted the television program ''Les Francs-tireurs'', an opinion program broadcast on the

. He left the program in 2013 citing insurmountable differences between him and his co-host. In 2006, he won with

Richard Martineau Richard Martineau (born July 23, 1961) is a right-leaning French-Canadian commentator. He is a columnist for ''Le Journal de Montréal'' newspaper. His columns also appear in the ''Infopresse'' and ''Elle Québec'' magazines. He also hosts ''Franch ...

, the Gemini prize for Best Animation for a TV magazine. In 2007, Lagacé was nominated for National Newspaper Awards for articles published in ''La Presse'' about the Canadian Olympic

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champion Myriam Bédard. For several months in 2016, Montreal police were monitoring Lagacé’s iPhone to determine the identity of his sources. In February 2019 he became involved in controversy surrounding Ensaf Haidar, wife of blogger, Raif Haidar, imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. He criticised Mrs Haidar for associating with any critics of Islam or the Saudi regime. Mrs Haidar said his attack on her, for not kowtowing to the Saudi regime, was bringing danger upon her and her children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lagace, Patrick 1972 births Living people University of Ottawa alumni Journalists from Montreal Canadian newspaper journalists Canadian political commentators Canadian people of French descent 20th-century Canadian journalists 21st-century Canadian journalists