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Lise Bissonnette Interview

The former editor of Le Devoir is this year's winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. For eight years, she was the Editor-in-Chief of Le Devoir, the only newspaper in Canada that openly supported Quebec sovereignty during the 1995 Referendum.

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