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NEW CONSUL GENERAL TO NEW YORK
APPOINTED
June 25, 2002
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is pleased to announce that renowned Canadian
broadcaster and journalist Pamela Wallin will be Canada’s next Consul General
to New York City.
This appointment is effective immediately.
A biography is attached.
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PMO Press Office: (613) 957-5555
Pamela Wallin
Pamela Wallin is one of Canada’s most accomplished, honoured and respected
broadcasters and journalists.
She is currently President of her own independent company, Pamela Wallin
Productions Inc., through which she hosts and produces Pamela Wallin’s Talk
TV for the CTV Group. In the fall of 2001, she hosted the highly successful Canada
Loves New York tribute show, a demonstration of the solidarity of Canadians
for the people of New York after the terrorist attack of September 11 th.
Ms. Wallin’s storied career in journalism has included senior positions in
print, radio and television. She has worked with the Ottawa bureau of the
Toronto Star. She has been national political producer for CBC Radio’s As
It Happens. She has co-hosted CTV’s Canada AM. In 1985, Ms. Wallin
became the first woman in Canadian network television history to be appointed
Ottawa Bureau Chief when CTV named her to that position. She also produced and
hosted CTV’s weekly political forum Question Period and was a regular
host of the weekend edition of CTV National News.
In 1998, Ms. Wallin published her best-selling memoir Since You Asked.
In September 2001, she published Speaking of Success: Collected Wisdom,
Insights and Reflections, a collection of the perspectives of the many
celebrated people she has interviewed over the years.
Ms. Wallin is also currently Chair of the Canadian Journalism Foundation. She
is a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo. She is also
member of the Ontario Cancer Research Network
Ms. Wallin has received 6 Honourary Doctorates, the most recent being from
her alma mater the University of Regina earlier this year. In 1999, she received
the United Nations UNIFEM Canada Award and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. In
1997, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Women in Film and
Television. In 1994, she received Radio and Television News Directors’
Association President’s Broadcaster of the Year Award.
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