Anne Lagacé Dowson
Canadian politician
Anne Lagacé Dowson (born January 29, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian radio journalist.
Radio career
A longtime host of CBC Radio's Radio Noon, a daily current affairs and phone-in program in Quebec, she left to run for political office in 2008. She also hosted Home Run in Montreal, and was producer of C'est la Vie. She was a news reporter, arts reporter, press reviewer, and has guest hosted Cross Country Checkup and As It Happens, where she was also a producer. Anne has been a frequent guest in the francophone media, she was a juror on the Radio Canada version of Canada Reads, entitled Le Combat des livres, and she championed Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version.
She was a daily presence on the Radio-Canada radio program Sans Préliminaires with Franco Nuovo. She has been a member of a weekly politics panel on Radio-Canada's flagship television newscast Le Téléjournal with Jean-François Lisée, Liza Frulla and Tasha Kheiriddin, hosted by Céline Galipeau.
Anne was the first ever Anglophone spokesperson for the Festival International du Film sur l'Art in Montreal, the biggest festival of films on art in the world.
From September 2009 to August 2011, she hosted a Saturday afternoon show on CJAD-AM in Montreal. She now participates in the Tommy Schnurmacher Show as a member of the Gang of Four, and does a weekly column on politics on the drive show with Aaron Rand.
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