From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rosemary Thompson
Rosemary Thompson
endary assignment editor there, Bernard St-Laurent, and
anchor Dennis Trudeau.
In 1995, just six months before a potential referen-
dum, Thompson left the CBC for CTV, because she wanted
a seat on the referendum campaign bus. Her life had been
marked by Quebec politics and she wanted a front row
seat to history. CTV News gave her that chance, when she
was named "Montreal Bureau Chief" in March 1995.
Thompson’s favourite political campaign was the
1995 referendum. Her favourite story was an investiga-
tion into how the Ontario Government handled the
Dionne quintuplet’s trust fund. Thompson’s documen-
tary resulted in a $4 million settlement paid to the sur-
viving Dionne sisters by the Ontario Government.
In 2000, Thompson was named the first ever woman
correspondent for CTV News in Washington. She covered
the end of the Clinton Presidency, the cliff-hanger elec-
tion of George W. Bush against Al Gore. She was in Wash-
ington on the morning of September 11, 2001 when the
Rosemary Thompson in 2008 World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked. She
covered the initial attack and its aftermath, and was on
Rosemary Thompson (born 17 October 1964) is the the south lawn of the White House when secret service
Director of Communications for Canada’s National Arts agents warned her to leave the area because another
Centre, located in Ottawa. She is the former deputy bu- plane was heading to Washington. That plane eventually
reau chief of the parliamentary bureau for CTV News. crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
She was a reporter and frequent guest host on CTV pro- Thompson comes from a family of successful broad-
grams including Question Period and Mike Duffy Live. casters, her sister, Virginia Thompson is the executive
She is a veteran political correspondent who has covered producer of Corner Gas a top-rated sitcom on CTV. Her
election campaigns in the United States, Quebec and Ot- cousin, Shelagh Rogers is the Host of Sounds Like Canada
tawa. on CBC Radio. Her brother owns several restaurants in
Vancouver.
Life and career Thompson was a director of the Parliamentary Press
Gallery, is on the board of the Children’s Bridge Founda-
Thompson began her career as a summer intern at the tion,[1] and volunteers for the Famous Five Foundation.
MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS in New York City in In 2002, Thompson and her family moved to Ottawa
the 1980s. After graduating from Carleton University’s for her to take up the post with CTV News, and her hus-
School of Journalism in 1987 she was hired by the CBC in band is a teacher at a private school in Ottawa. She is
Winnipeg as an editorial assistant. She quickly climbed a mother of three children, two boys and a girl adopted
the reporting ranks at CBWT’s 24 Hours program in the from China. Her youngest son died in an accident in 2002.
late 1980s. Thompson met her husband, Pierre Boulet, in In October 2009, Thompson resigned from her role at
Winnipeg. He worked as a reporter for Radio-Canada, the CTV to take the post at the National Arts Centre.
French language services of the CBC.
They married on 16 June 1990, just a week after the
Meech Lake Accord was signed in Ottawa. But when that References
political accord began to unravel, Thompson wanted to [1] "Orphans have friends far from home". The Ottawa
move back to her home province of Quebec, to cover the Citizen. 2 June 2008. http://www.canada.com/
political situation. ottawacitizen/news/city/
Thompson was hired by CBC Montreal’s news pro- story.html?id=a3189fa3-01fb-4451-948d-5cd6e33eb5ee.
gram NewsWatch in 1991. Her mentors included the leg- Retrieved 14 August 2010.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rosemary Thompson
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Date of birth 17 October 1964
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