Francine Pelletier (born c. 1955) is a journalist based in

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, Canada. She is the founder of a

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newspaper, ''La Vie en Rose'', and has written for '' La Presse'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. After the

École Polytechnique massacre École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

on December 6, 1989, in which 14 women were murdered by

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, she lobbied for the public release of the gunman's suicide letter. It was leaked to her on November 22, 1990, and was subsequently published in ''La Presse''. The letter included a list of 19 prominent Quebec feminists whom Marc Lepine had apparently wished to target, and her name was one of those listed. She has been a commentator on the

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program, ''The Editors'', and has worked as a correspondent for

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on '' The National Magazine'' and as a co-host of '' The Fifth Estate''. Since leaving the CBC, Pelletier has become a documentary filmmaker, having produced ''Monsieur'', a film about former Quebec Premier

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.Francine Pelletier, Filmmaker and Journalist
"The 2004 Canada Reads Panelists," ''CBC.ca'', accessed 27 December 2006 In 2015 she was awarded the Michener-Deacon fellowship in Journalism Education and began teaching in the Journalism Department at Montreal's

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. In 2020 she was named the department's journalist-in-residence.

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