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Joyce Napier

CTV National News Ottawa Bureau Chief

Ottawa

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June 2023: Joyce Napier is no longer with the company

Joyce Napier is the Ottawa Bureau Chief for CTV NATIONAL NEWS, a role she assumed in March 2016.

In this capacity, she has covered major political stories including NDP and Conservative leadership races, the Conservative and Liberal party conventions, the legalization of cannabis and assisted dying, the trade negotiations with the U.S. for a new NAFTA, the SNC Lavalin affair, and the 2019 federal election campaign.

She began her career as a print journalist, working as a Montr茅al correspondent for The Canadian Press and regularly contributing to The Globe and Mail before becoming a reporter for La Presse.

She joined CBC as a television reporter in Montr茅al in 1989 when she reported on the massacre at l鈥櫭塩ole Polytechnique in Montr茅al, beginning her near 30-year career in broadcast journalism.

Napier first joined Radio-Canada in 1992, reporting on the 1995 Qu茅bec referendum before being named Radio-Canada鈥檚 Middle East Correspondent in 1998. While in the Middle East, Napier covered the second Intifada, the Israeli pullout from south Lebanon, and the death of Syrian President Hafez Al Assad.

In 2003, Napier moved to the U.S. and was subsequently named Washington Bureau Chief for Radio-Canada, a position she held until 2014. During that time, Napier covered the U.S. Military base in Guantanamo Bay, the consequences of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and the Newtown massacre. In 2008, Napier stood across from the stage in Chicago鈥檚 Grant Park, reporting live as Barack Obama accepted the presidency of the U.S., a highlight during her post.

In what was to be her most memorable career moment, Napier reported from Rome on the death of Pope Jean-Paul II in 2005. Also that year, she landed the only media interview of Karla Homolka, who had just been released from prison.

In August 2015, Napier returned to Canada after 17 years abroad, becoming Radio-Canada鈥檚 Senior Political Correspondent for the network鈥檚 parliamentary bureau.

Born in Montr茅al and fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Italian, Napier spent her childhood in Rome before returning to Qu茅bec to study journalism at Concordia University.