Althia Raj is a Canadian political journalist and a member of the

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. She is a regular columnist with the

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Career

She was formerly the Ottawa Bureau Chief for ''

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Canada'', where she managed the

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bureau and hosted and produced the politics podcast ''Follow-Up'' until BuzzFeed purchased HuffPost and abruptly ended Canadian operations. Her team has held live town halls with Prime Minister

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, Finance minister Bill Morneau and Heritage minister

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. She went to school at McGill University, and is a francophone. Prior to joining ''HuffPost'' in August 2011, Raj worked as a national political reporter for

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and has also reported from

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for

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and has been a producer for CTV and for

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's weekly national political magazine, '' The House''. Raj was also a regular panelist on

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's '' Power & Politics'' program and appears weekly as a panelist alongside

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and Chantal Hébert on ''At Issue'' on

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's '' The National'' hosted by Rosemary Barton. Raj also assists with coverage on various CPAC programs. In 2016, Raj was in conflict with Senator Leo Housakos when she named him as the source of a leak regarding the

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'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. On February 28, 2018, Raj moderated the second all-candidates debate for the 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election. 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. She has written an e-book called ''Contender: The Justin Trudeau Story.'' Raj joined the Toronto Star in September 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raj, Althia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian political journalists HuffPost writers and columnists Toronto Star people Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people