Patrice Roy


Patrice Roy is a Canadian news presenter. Since 2008, he has hosted on Télévision de Radio-Canada.

Biography

Early life

Patrice Roy, son of journalist, 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, he was a researcher for the production company on the international news program Table Rase, broadcast on Radio-Québec.
He first appeared on Radio-Canada Television in 1989 as a public affairs reporter for Enjeux. 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. Two Canadian soldiers were killed in the attack.
Since the end of summer 2008, he has hosted, the local television news programme on Télévision de Radio-Canada in the.
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 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé.
On April 16, 2025, Patrice Roy moderated the French language leaders debate for the 2025 Canadian federal election.

Personal life

He is the father of videographer Émile Roy, born in 1999.

Distinctions

  • 1992 -, Les enfants de la rue
  • Mireille-Lanctôt Prize, documentary on religion in the USSR
  • 2004 - Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf Young Talent Award