Althia Raj

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Althia Raj
Born
Ontario, Canada
OccupationJournalist

Althia Raj is a Canadian political journalist and a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. [1] [2] [3] She is a regular columnist with the Toronto Star. [4]

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Career

She was formerly the Ottawa Bureau Chief for HuffPost Canada, where she managed the Quebec City bureau and hosted and produced the politics podcast Follow-Up [5] [3] until BuzzFeed purchased HuffPost and abruptly ended Canadian operations. Her team has held live town halls with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, [6] Finance minister Bill Morneau and Heritage minister Mélanie Joly. [7] She went to school at McGill University, [8] and is a francophone.

Prior to joining HuffPost in August 2011, [9] Raj worked as a national political reporter for Postmedia News and has also reported from Parliament Hill for Sun Media and has been a producer for CTV and for CBC Radio's weekly national political magazine, The House . [3] [5]

Raj was also a regular panelist on CBC News Network's Power & Politics program and appears weekly as a panelist alongside Andrew Coyne and Chantal Hébert on At Issue on CBC's The National hosted by Rosemary Barton. Raj also assists with coverage on various CPAC programs. [5] [3] [10]

In 2016, Raj was in conflict with Senator Leo Housakos when she named him as the source of a leak 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. [2]

On February 28, 2018, Raj moderated the second all-candidates debate for the 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election. [11] [12]

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. [1] She has written an e-book called Contender: The Justin Trudeau Story. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 "How'd you get that job? Althia Raj speaks". Samara Centre for Democracy . May 7, 2014. Archived from the original on December 3, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  2. 1 2 "'You're lying,' Huffington Post reporter says to senator about spending audit leak". CBC News . May 17, 2016. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Meet the Power & Politics power panelists". CBC News . Archived from the original on March 11, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Althia Raj". Toronto Star . Archived from the original on November 17, 2023. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 "Althia Raj". HuffPost . Archived from the original on February 21, 2018. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Shekar, Shruti (June 21, 2017). "Reporter calls out restricted access at Liberal 'open fundraising' event". The Hill Times . Archived from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  7. ↑ Nagy, Sasha (March 2, 2018). "HuffPost Canada Launches New Political Show 'Backbenchers'". HuffPost . Archived from the original on November 17, 2023. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  8. ↑ Mansbridge, Peter (August 17, 2021). "Reporter's Notebook". The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge (Podcast). Sirius XM Canada. Archived from the original on August 27, 2021. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Althia Raj – Ottawa Bureau Chief, The Huffington Post Canada". Cision. November 3, 2011. Archived from the original on October 26, 2019. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  10. ↑ Cossette, Marc-André (June 3, 2017). "Former candidates for bilingualism post criticize nomination process as harmful, divisive". CBC News. Archived from the original on July 24, 2023. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  11. ↑ Ibbitson, John (February 28, 2018). "Doug Ford, Christine Elliott treat each other as biggest threat in Ontario PC debate" . The Globe and Mail . Archived from the original on September 25, 2018. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Ontario PC Party leadership candidates face off in final televised debate". Global News . The Canadian Press. February 28, 2018. Archived from the original on June 19, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  13. ↑ Horgan, Colin (March 7, 2013). "Contender: What would Day One of a Trudeau Liberal party look like?" . iPolitics . Archived from the original on October 30, 2019. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
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