Cormier, Michel

Michel Cormier is the Executive Director of News and Current Affairs at Radio-Canada. He was the CBC and Radio-Canada correspondent in Moscow and Paris and, from 2006 to 2010, in Beijing, where he covered events such as the Sichuan earthquake and the 2008 Olympics and followed China's meteoric rise to economic superpower. Cormier has also reported on major events in Europe, the war in Afghanistan and the deaths of Yasser Arafat and Pope John Paul II. His coverage of the toppling of Eduard Schevardnadze in Georgia resulted in a Gemini-award nomination. Cormier is the author of four books, inclu...