Michel Vastel
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Michel Vastel (born in 1940) is a French-born Quebecois journalist and biography author. He is a columnist for the newspaper Le Journal de Montreal.
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[edit] Biography
Born in France, Vastel began his journalistic career in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of his home country, first at Nord Éclair in Tourcoing, then in Roubaix. He subsequently moved to Montreal, Quebec. In Quebec, he first worked at the Government of Quebec and the Quebec Employers Council before returning to journalism for Montreal's Le Devoir and La Presse, Quebec City's Le Soleil and Ottawa-Gatineau's Le Droit.
Currently a Le Journal de Montreal columnist, he is also collaborator for the current affairs magazine L'actualité, as well as the radio station of CKAC and the SRC radio network. He is also known for quickly writing biographies about people in the news at time of publication, especially Prime Ministers.
[edit] Bibliography
- Le Neveu (1987, about mafia hitman Réal Simard)
- Trudeau le Québécois (1989, about Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau)
- Bourassa (1991, about Premier Robert Bourassa)
- Lucien Bouchard, en attendant la suite… (1995, about Premier Lucien Bouchard)
- Landry, le grand dérangeant (2001, about Premier Bernard Landry)
- Nathalie: Briser le silence (2005, about singer and abuse victim Nathalie Simard)
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[edit] External links
- Article archive (1996 to 2004) at Vigile.net
- Blog of Michel Vastel at the L'actualité website
