Patrice Roy

Early life

Patrice Roy, son of journalist Michel Roy [fr], grew up in the Côte-des-Neiges borough of Montreal. At the age of 6, he had to have hip surgery due to a condition that made the femur very soft. He attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, then the University of Montreal.

Career

After starting out in 1985 at CISM, the student radio station at the University of Montreal,^[1] he was a researcher for the production company Pixcom [fr] on the international news program Table Rase, broadcast on Radio-Québec.^[2]

He first appeared on Radio-Canada Television in 1989 as a public affairs reporter for Enjeux.^[3] He then joined the newsroom in Montreal, where he covered, among other things, the municipal world. He was a parliamentary correspondent in Quebec City from 1997, then in Ottawa from 2000. He was the bureau chief for Parliament Hill in Canada between 2005 and 2008. He co-authored with Michel Cormier, War Rooms, a documentary on the behind-the-scenes work of the strategic decision-making centers of the Liberal Party and the Parti Québécois.

He survived a Taliban attack on August 22, 2007 while he was with the Canadian Armed Forces as a correspondent for Radio-Canada.^[4] Two Canadian soldiers were killed in the attack.^[5]

Since the end of summer 2008, he has hosted Le Téléjournal Grand Montréal 6 p.m [fr], the local television news programme on Télévision de Radio-Canada in the Greater Montreal region [fr].

Roy was in Paris on November 13, 2015 and hosted a special program devoted to the attacks from the French capital, for a two-hour special program on ICI RDI.

Furthermore, he currently presents two hours of news on public service channels: En Direct avec Patrice Roy on ICI RDI at 5p.m. Eastern Time, since 2014, and still the Le Téléjournal Grand Montréal 6 p.m [fr] on Ici Radio-Canada Télé.

On April 16, 2025, Patrice Roy moderated the French language leaders debate for the 2025 Canadian federal election.^[6]