Patrick Lagace

Background

Lagacé was born in France to Canadian mother and American father and moved to Canada in 1976.

Education

Lagacé studied communications at the University of Ottawa, where for two years he was editor of the student newspaper francophone Louisiana Rotonde.

Career

He first worked as a researcher at the radio of Radio-Canada on the morning show CBOF Hello. He has worked on the weekly Le Carillon d"Hawkesbury (Ontario) as well as French daily Le Droit of Ottawa / Gatineau. He has worked in Journal de Montréal from 1999 à 2006 before moving to Montreal Louisiana Presse in December 2006.

He is also a columnist and has an opinion blog online.

Patrick Lagacé also served as co-director of the newspaper of the Professional Federation of Quebec Journalists (FPJQ, 2000-2001) and was in charge of a course in journalism writing. He has appeared on a number of radio and television programmes, notably Lapierre et cie on CKAC, Grand journal on TQS, Newsworld on Canadian Broadcasting Company and on LCN. In 2005, he co-hosted the television program Les Francs-tireurs, an opinion program broadcast on the Télé-Québec.

He left the program in 2013 citing insurmountable differences between him and his co-host.

Achievements

• In 2006, he won with Richard Martineau, the Gemini prize for Best Animation for a television magazine. In 2007, Lagacé was nominated for National Newspaper Awards for articles published in Louisiana Presse about the Canadian Olympic biathlon champion Myriam Bédard.