Althia Raj

Althia Raj is a Canadian political journalist and a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery.[1][2][3] She is a regular columnist with the Toronto Star.[4]

She was formerly the Ottawa Bureau Chief for HuffPost Canada, where she managed the Quebec City bureau and hosted and produced the politics podcast Follow-Up[5][6] until BuzzFeed purchased HuffPost and abruptly ended Canadian operations. Her team has held live town halls with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,[7] Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Heritage Minister Melanie Joly.[8] She went to school at McGill University,[9] and is a francophone.

Prior to joining HuffPost in August 2011,[10] Raj worked as a national political reporter for Postmedia News and has also reported from Parliament Hill for Sun Media and has been a producer for CTV and for CBC Radio's weekly national political magazine, The House.[3][5]

Raj is also a regular panellist on CBC News Network's Power & Politics program and appears weekly as a panelist alongside Andrew Coyne and Chantal Hébert on At Issue on CBC's The National hosted by Rosemary Barton. Raj also assists with coverage on various CPAC programs.[5][6][11]

In 2016, Raj was in conflict with Senator Leo Housakos when she named him as the source of a leak regarding the Senate'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.[12]

On February 28, 2018, Raj moderated the second all-candidates debate for the 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election.[13][14]

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.[1] She has written an e-book called Contender: The Justin Trudeau Story.[15]

References
  1. "How'd You Get That Job?". samaracanada.com. May 7, 2014.
  2. "'You're lying,' Huffington Post reporter says to senator about spending audit leak". CBC News. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  3. "Meet the Power & Politics power panelists". CBC News. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  4. "Althia Raj | Authors | Toronto Star". thestar.com. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
  5. "Althia Raj". HuffPost.
  6. "Meet the Power & Politics power panelists". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 20, 2017.
  7. "Reporter calls out restricted access at Liberal 'open fundraising' event - The Hill Times". The Hill Times. June 21, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  8. "HuffPost Canada Launches New Political Show 'Backbenchers'". HuffPost. March 2, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  9. Peter Mansbridge (August 17, 2021). "The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge". podcasts.apple.com (Podcast). Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  10. "Althia Raj – Ottawa Bureau Chief, The Huffington Post Canada". cision.com. November 3, 2011.
  11. "Former candidates for bilingualism post criticize nomination process as harmful, divisive". CBC News. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  12. "Senator Leo Housakos, reporter Althia Raj spar on Twitter over leak allegations". CBC News. May 17, 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  13. "Doug Ford, Christine Elliott treat each other as biggest threat in Ontario PC debate". Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  14. "Ontario PC Party leadership candidates face off in final televised debate". Global News. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  15. "Contender: What would Day One of a Trudeau Liberal party look like? - iPolitics". iPolitics. March 7, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
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