Marie Plourde
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Marie Plourde | |
|---|---|
| Le Plateau-Mont-Royal borough councillor for Mile-End | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Richard Ryan |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Projet Montréal |
| Profession | Media personality, journalist |
Marie Plourde is a politician, media personality, journalist, and occasional actress in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has served on the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council since 2013 as a member of Projet Montréal.
Plourde was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec (later Shawinigan). She later moved to Montreal to study urban planning.[1]
Media personality and journalist
Plourde began her media career as a MusiquePlus VJ from 1989 to 1993.[2][3] Later, after a brief stint as host of the Radio-Canada culture program La Ruée vers l'art,[4] she became a television columnist for the tabloid Le Journal de Montréal from 1996 to 2006.[5][6]
In 1997, Plourde strongly criticized a Public Works Canada television program entitled Services compris that promoted the services of the Canadian federal government. She described it as "an insidious infomercial ... in which federal employees are depicted as superheroes who have come to our rescue from Ottawa."[7]
Plourde hosted the cultural television program Flash in 2001 as a temporary replacement for Patricia Paquin.[8] Later in the decade, she hosted a Canal Vie program called Une chance qu'on s'aime,[9] a literary program called Sous les jaquettes,[10] and the TQS reality television show Loft Story.[11][12] She also branched out into radio, hosting a program on Rythme FM.[13] A Montreal Gazette article in 2008 described her as a "ubiquitous media celeb[rity]."[14]