Shawn Apel
As CBC Radio's Civic Affairs reporter in Montreal, Shawn covers local issues and municipal politics.

Susan Bell
Susan Bell has 13 years experience as a journalist. She began her career covering the Oka crisis at The Montreal Gazette in 1990. She has covered countless elections, provincial, federal and territorial during that time. She has been with CBC Radio for six years working as a reporter, host and writer.

Dave Bronstetter
Dave has been hosting Daybreak since March of 1996, but has been a CBC Montreal mainstay for more than 20 years. He started his broadcast career doing sports on the afternoon show in 1978. He was the anchor of Newswatch on CBC television in Montreal and has hosted all three CBC Montreal daily shows: Radio Noon, Home Run and now Daybreak.

Sara Germanotta
Sara Germanotta has been working as a researcher and reporter for CBC Radio for almost two years.

Katherine Gombay
Katherine Gombay was quoted recently saying "One of the real joys of working at the CBC is that we can actively encourage and support the talented, creative people within our community" and her work reflects that passion. Katherine has been involved in radio for a long time and she's been crazy about art even longer, a voice Montrealer's have long associated with the city.

David Gutnick
David Gutnick has been working with CBC Radio as a writer-broadcaster since the mid-1980's. One of David's passions is finding alternative ways of telling stories on the radio.

Christopher Hall
Christopher Hall works as a freelance radio and T.V. person, a stand-up comic and classical musician.

Jeanette Kelly
Jeanette Kelly covers the latest arts news, indepth stories, profiles, and upcoming events in Montreal. She can be heard on Fridays at 7:40 a.m. on the CBC Radio 88.5 FM program Daybreak during her Backstage column. She also does the Arts Report on Homerun every afternoon at 5:20 p.m.

Anne Lagacé Dowson
HomeRun's host is Anne Lagacé Dowson. Anne has an MA in Canadian Studies from Carleton University and is bilingual and bicultural, as you may have gleaned from her double-barrelled name. She has hosted national radio programs, was a news and arts reporter, studio director, and national and local producer with CBC Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal.

Julie Lapalme
Julie Lapalme is the web developer for Montreal Matters. The site she designed for Montreal Matters 2002 won a RTNDA (Radio-Television News Directors Association) award for Best Website. Before joining the CBC team, she was the web mistress at Studio XX, a women's new media art centre in Montreal. Julie has taught in various artist-run centres and continues her art practice as an independant new media producer.

Eric Litwack
Eric Litwack has taught at Queen's University at Kingston and the International Study Centre (U.K.) and acted as Senior Consultant to the British Department for International Development (DFID) and the British Government Ukraine Legislative Drafting Project (London and Kiev). He also held the role of Conference Organiser and Translator for the Second World Congress on Violence and Human Coexistence 1991-1992.

Shari Okeke has been with the CBC for five years. She started at Newsworld in Toronto as a producer for CBC Morning and Politics. She has been the Montreal Canada Now business reporter for the past two years. Shari has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Loreen Pindera
Loreen Pindera has been covering news and current affairs for CBC Radio since 1984. Loreen is a 1981 graduate of Communication Studies at Concordia University and she completed her Bachelor of Journalism at Carleton University in 1984. She began her career in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
She covered politics, aboriginal justice and social issues in her home province of Manitoba before moving back to Montreal. She began work in Quebec the month that Robert Bourassa launched his 1989 re-election bid, and she has covered every federal and provincial election campaign in Quebec since then.
Loreen's coverage of the 1990 Oka crisis for CBC Radio led to the publication of her book, with the Globe and Mail's Geoffrey York, entitled People of the Pines.

Shelley Pomerance
Shelley Pomerance ishost of All in a Weekend. Her interests lie in culture, cuisine and just about everything in between. She likes to travel the province, from the Eastern Townships to the Laurentians, the Lower St. Lawrence to the Gaspé and the Magdalen Islands. She has covered the arts for local, regional, and national programs on the CBC and was the host of CBC's Arttalks in Quebec for many years.

Judith Ritter
Judith Ritter a 'Homerun' regular, has, via the series 'How Things Work', introduced CBC audiences to Montreal's bomb squad, rat patrol, road workers, big rig drivers, demolition experts and more. When not on 'hardhat' assignment, Ritter takes listeners to visit Montreal's most unusual people such as sword swallowers, arm wrestlers and whistling champions. With Judith Ritter, 'Homerun' listeners have hit entertainment spots generally off the CBC radar screen such as monster truck shows, tattoo conventions, and WWF challenges. She has a serious side too and brought CBC a reports on labour abuses in China, Canadian cops teaching in community policing in the developing world, and airline security. Ritter is also a regular contributor to PRI (Public Radio International) in the states, and other US travel programs. She also teaches communications at McGill University.

Stuart Robertson
Stuart Robertson has been a writer and broadcaster on Radio Noon for several years. He can be heard doing the regional press review every day at 12:45 on Radio Noon.

Bernard St-Laurent
Bernard St-Laurent is the host and co-creator of C'EST LA VIE, heard Fridays. A weekly program about life in French speaking Canada, C'est La Vie is in its seventh season on CBC Radio One.

For more than 25 years he has covered all the major political events in Quebec from the election of the Parti Quebecois in 1976 to the 1995 referendum and the reelection of the PQ government in 1998. He has also been assignment editor and senior political editor for CBC television in Quebec from 1991-1994.

St-Laurent started with CBC in 1981, opening CBC Radio's bureau in the Eastern Townships and working as a CBC Radio National Assembly Reporter. He left the CBC in 1987, but returned once again in 1991 as Assignment Editor for CBC Newswatch. He has been National Reporter National Radio News since 1994. St-Laurent has sat in as host of Cross Country Checkup, and local Montreal programs Radio Noon, Home Run and All in a Weekend.

Before joining CBC, St-Laurent was a political columnist for the Montreal Gazette and executive producer for Météomedia /the Weather Network in 1989-90, and from 1988-1990 he was city editor and columnist at Montreal Daily News.

Dennis Trudeau
Since joining the CBC in 1979, Dennis Trudeau has hosted a number of radio and television programs. He joined the CBMT news team in 1987, and has anchored the news through the Oka crisis, the Meech Lake talks, and the Quebec election and 1995 referendum. Dennis has anchored Montreal 's portion of Canada Now for the past two years.

René Vezina
René Vezina was born in Québec City, and has been a journalist for 25 years. He worked for 10 years at Radio-Canada, before moving to the private sector. He has covered economic stories for five years, but before that, worked in scientific journalism, writing two books about the environment. Whether it be science, the environment or the economy, René Vezina's passion is to make diverse subjects accessible to a general public.

Je suis né à Québec, je suis journaliste depuis 25 ans, j’ai passé 10 ans à Radio-Canada avant de me tourner vers la production privée et, depuis 5 ans, vers la couverture de l’économie. On m’a longtemps associé au journalisme scientifique, et j’ai même écrit deux livres sur l’environnement ! Mais qu’il s’agisse de sciences, d’environnement ou d’économie, c’est toujours la même passion qui m’anime : vulgariser les connaissances les plus diverses pour les rendre accessibles au plus grand nombre.

Jonah Wexler
Jonah Wexler, 19, is a Montreal Native. He is currently in his second year at McGill University, where he majors in military history and minors in Islamic studies. He is a professional actor, having recently appeared in Production La Fete's 'Undying Love' at the Montreal World Film Festival. This is his second project with CBC. He was recently aired on CBC 'Daybreak' and 'Out Front'. He is delighted to be working again at CBC.

Nancy Wood
Most Radio One listeners know Nancy Wood as the host of Radio Noon. But that's not all she does. Nancy also shares her analysis of the day's editorials and columns for Daybreak (at 7:50am).

Nancy spent nine years in print journalism, as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette and Toronto Star, and as a senior writer with Maclean's Magazine. She was born in Montreal and raised in Mont St. Hilaire on the South Shore.