Joyce Napier

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Joyce Napier (born June 15, 1958) is a Canadian diplomat and former television journalist, currently serving as Canada's ambassador to the Holy See. Formerly a correspondent for the news division of Société Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she became, in March 2016, the parliamentary bureau chief for CTV News. Born in Montreal, Quebec to Egyptian immigrants, she spent her childhood in Europe where her father worked for the Encyclopædia Britannica. She returned to Montreal to study journalism. She began her career as a print journalist, working as a Montreal correspondent for The Globe and Mail and Canadian Press before joining the Montreal newspaper La Presse as a reporter. She began working for CBMT as a television reporter in 1989. Around the same time, she married Neil Macdonald, a reporter with the English division of CBC News. She first joined the CBC's French service in 1992 as part of a project within the CBC, in which she and Radio...

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