Michel Venne

Michel Venne (born 1960) is a Canadian journalist, author and intellectual. He is a columnist for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. He is founder and director of the Institut du Nouveau Monde. Venne is a vocal advocate of Quebec independence and of progressive, social democratic politics.

Michel Venne in 2012

Venne studied communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and political science at Université Laval, in Quebec City. At Le Devoir, he has been parliamentary correspondent at the National Assembly of Quebec, editor, and news director. He is editor of L'annuaire du Québec, an exhaustive annual publication on Quebec affairs, sold in bookstores.

on June 23, 2021, Venne was found guilty of sexual assault against Quebec media personality Léa Clermont-Dion when she was a minor.[1][2][3] This verdict was appealed.[4]

Bibliography

Author
  • Vie privée et démocratie à l'ère de l'informatique (1994)
  • Ces fascinantes inforoutes (1995)
  • Les Porteurs de liberté (2001)
  • Souverainistes, que faire? (2002)

Director
  • Penser la nation québécoise (2000)
  • La Révolution génétique (2001)
  • Santé : Une thérapie de choc (2001)
  • Justice, prospérité et démocratie. L'avenir du modèle québécois (2003)

Awards
  • Judith-Jasmin Award (1993)
  • Michener Grant (1997)

See also

References
  1. Gagné, Louis (2021-06-23). "Michel Venne reconnu coupable d'agression sexuelle". ici.Radio-Canada.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  2. "La déclaration de culpabilité de Michel Venne". La Presse+ (in French). 2021-06-26. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  3. "Léa Clermont-Dion accuse Michel Venne de l'avoir agressée". Le Soleil (in French). 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  4. "Former journalist Michel Venne sentenced to six months in prison for sexual assault". 9 November 2021.

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