Chantal Hebert

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer for the Toronto Star based on Parliament Hill, as well as a guest columnist with the Montreal daily Le Devoir and a member of the CBC’s The National’s weekly At Issue panel. She blogs on the website of the French-language magazine L’Actualité.

Hébert is a regular participant in other television and radio current affairs shows in French and in English.  Prior to taking her position, Hébert worked as the Montreal correspondent for the Toronto Star from February 1999 to September of the same year.  She started her career in 1975 in Toronto working for Radio-Canada television news.

She has served as parliamentary bureau chief for La Presse and Le Devoir as well as a parliamentary radio correspondent for Radio-Canada.

Hébert is the 2005 recipient of APEX’s Public Service Citation as well as the 2006 recipient of the Hyman Solomon award for excellence in journalism and public policy.

She is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.  As part of the Asia Pacific Foundation Fellowship program, she has traveled extensively to Japan, South-East Asia and Hong Kong.

Hébert penned her first book, French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec, published by Knopf Canada in Feburary 2007.

Born and raised in Ontario, Hébert was educated at Glendon College, York University. She holds an honourary doctorate from Bishops University.