Marie-Claude Lavallée, journalist, speaker and host, is well known to the general public. For 30 years, she has been featured on Radio-Canada and RDI in a wide variety of programs.
On television, she presented the 6 p.m. newscasts CE SOIR and MONTRÉAL CE SOIR from 1984 to 1992, SRC BONJOUR from 1992 to 1994, À TOUT PRIX in 1994-1995 and the weekend TÉLÉJOURNAL MIDI from 1998 to 2006.
From 1995 to 2009, she offered memorable intimate interviews with the most prominent personalities in the arts and other fields on RDI and Radio-Canada as part of ENTRÉE DES ARTISTES and then RENDEZ-VOUS DE MARIE-CLAUDE.
From 2009 to 2012, she hosted the daily RDI SANTÉ, covering all aspects of current affairs in this vast field with a remarkable team of professionals.
During her last year at the SRC, Marie-Claude presented the news on RDI on weekends.
She chose to leave the Crown Corporation on 25 May 2014, feeling challenged and even shocked by the latest cuts and their devastating effect on the young journalists at the company.
Marie Claude Lavallée studied piano and oboe at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec before pursuing her studies in journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto. She began her career in the Queen City in both English and French, co-hosting a youth news magazine on CBC. (What’s New)
In addition to her on-screen work, Marie-Claude Lavallée, speaker, helped train young journalists and news anchors in all of Radio-Canada’s French-language stations from 2006 to 2009.
Today, as a freelancer, she devotes her energies to radio hosting (COGÉCO, 98.5), to thehosting of conferences and award ceremonies, and to training (writing and public speaking – on air presence).