A year following the departure of Pascale Nadeau, the Weekend newscast has a new official news anchor and it is the journalist Claudine Bourbonnais who has won this position which she has held for months on an interim basis.
Mme Bourbonnais, who began her radio career in Edmonton in 1990, has been with RDI since 1995 and has been at the helm of the Weekend midday newscast from 2005 to 2021.
Pascale Nadeau was the anchor of the Weekend newscast for 12 years and she did television for 38 years. She retired last year following being suspended without pay in February following a complaint from an employee who criticized her for comments she allegedly made the previous year.
Ms. Nadeau did not return to the helm of the newscast following her suspension and the public broadcaster announced her retirement at the end of last summer.
In a letter shared on August 18 in The sunPascale Nadeau, who is the daughter of the late journalist Pierre Nadeau, did not hide her bitterness.
“With this investigation, Radio-Canada attacked my integrity. By sanctioning me in this way, on the basis of an anonymous denunciation made in the name of a third party and on the basis of an investigation which did not reach any frank conclusion, she trampled on her own principles of ethics and journalistic rigor that she continues to proudly brandish as a standard,” wrote Ms. Nadeau in her letter.
“All I asked for to come back to work was a simple apology and the removal of this stain from my file. Nothing more. But Radio-Canada does not apologize. I am a woman of principle, proud and honest. We attacked that and at the same time, we smeared my name, which I proudly wear, and that of my parents, who contributed, among other things, to giving Radio-Canada its letters of nobility, “said she concluded in her letter.
This case is still in arbitration.
