Emmanuelle Latraverse (born December 30, 1974) is a Canadian television journalist, who previously worked for

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and currently for

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and the Journal de Montréal.Marc-André Lemieux
"« Retour au bercail » pour Emmanuelle Latraverse"
'' Le Journal de Montréal'', August 13, 2018.

Career

Covering the Parliament of Canada, she was the first female head of Radio Canada in Ottawa. She was the host of the television political program '' Les Coulisses du pouvoir'' ("The Corridors of Power") from September 2011 until the spring of 2017. Subsequent to that, she was lead reporter on ''

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avec

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'', the network's flagship newscast. During her career as a journalist at Radio Canada, Latraverse appeared regularly on ''Le Téléjournal Québec'' from

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Quebec City, hosted by Bruno Savard, and as a member of the "in-House panel" on '' The House'' from

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. She also her covered the

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, the

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and then the

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in his travels abroad. On June 21, 2018, after a series of shuffles in her assignments on the network, Latraverse announced on

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that she had resigned from Ici RDI, effective the previous day "to discover new horizons. ... Journalism is one of the most beautiful professions in the world, but it must not become a golden cage". On August 30 that year, La Presse reported that Latraverse had been accused of psychological harassment, verbal aggression, intimidation, over several years during her years as head of the Radio Canada office in Ottawa. Since 2018, she has been employed by

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as a political commentator on

, as well as a columnist for the Journal de Montréal.

Personal life

Latraverse attended high school at Villa Sainte Marcelline in Westmount and took post-secondary studies at the

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. She holds a degree in modern

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Studies and in

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from

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, and a Master's in journalism from

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References

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