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Paula Todd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paula Todd (born 1959) is a Canadian journalist, lawyer and author,
and is currently the host of "The Verdict with Paula Todd", the
nightly, live, prime-time legal and justice affairs program on CTV
Newsnet. Prior to joining CTV News in 2007, Todd was the host and co-
producer of TV Ontario's interview program Person 2 Person with Paula
Todd. She previously co-hosted the nightly, Gemini-award-winning
newsmagazine Studio 2 with Steve Paikin for 10 years before that
show's cancellation in June 2006. Todd has written extensively for
such publications as The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Elm Street
Magazine, Canadian Living, and The Law Times.
Todd entered public broadcasting after more than a dozen years at
Canada's largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, where she worked as a
reporter, feature writer and Queen's Park political correspondent.
Throughout her last four years at the Toronto Star, she served as an
editorial writer and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
Todd served as a judge for the National Newspaper Awards, the
Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Awards and was nominated for
a 'National Magazine Award' in 2003. She is the 2004 recipient of the
Paramedic Association's Media Award for public education, and serves
on the Board of Directors of Integra, an organization that assists
children and teens with learning disabilities.
She is the author of the best-selling book A Quiet Courage: Inspiring
Stories from All of Us.
A frequent contributor to radio and television before joining TVO,
Paula was a regular host on CBC Newsworld's 'Face Off', appeared as a
frequent Global TV and CBC panelist, and also as a political analyst
for CBC Radio in Toronto and Ottawa. Paula earned her B.A. in English
literature from York University (where she served as co-editor of the
University's student newspaper Excalibur), her LL.B. from York
University's Osgoode Hall Law School.
She is married to Doug Grant, the Director of Current Affairs and
Weekly Programming for CBC TV and Newsworl