Michel Vastel was a Québécois

Quebec

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 journalist

Journalist

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 and columnist

Columnist

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 for Le Journal de Montréal

Le Journal de Montréal

Le Journal de Montréal is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is the largest-circulation French-language newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by the Sun Media division of Quebecor Media. It is also Canada's largest tabloid...

and other medias. He was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles

Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles

Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.-Population:-References:*...

, Eure

Eure

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, France

France

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 and immigrated to Canada in 1970.

Vastel began his career in the Nord-Pas de Calais

Nord-Pas de Calais

Nord-Pas de Calais , Nord for short, is one of the 27 regions of France. It consists of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, in the north and has a border with Belgium. Most of the region was once part of the Southern Netherlands, within the Low Countries, and gradually became part of France...

 region. He subsequently moved to Montreal

Montreal

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. He first worked at the Government of Quebec

Government of Quebec

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 and the Quebec Employers Council, then began to write for Le Devoir

Le Devoir

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, La Presse, Quebec City

Quebec City

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's Le Soleil

Le Soleil

Le Soleil is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec. It was founded on December 28, 1896 and is published in compact format since April 2006...

and Ottawa-Gatineau's Le Droit

Le Droit

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.

He was also contributor for L'actualité

L'actualité

L'actualité is a Canadian French-language news and general interest magazine published in Montreal by Les Éditions Rogers, which is owned by Rogers Communications. The magazine has over a million readers, according to Canada's Print Measurement Bureau, from its circulation which is mainly...

, CKAC and the Société Radio-Canada. He died in Bedford, Quebec

Bedford, Quebec

Bedford is a town located in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 2,612. This small community is just a half hour's drive from larger cities such as Burlington and Montreal, and is the home to southern Quebec's largest boy scout troop.-...

 on August 28, 2008 from throat cancer

Head and neck cancer

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External links

• Article archive (1996 to 2004) at Vigile.net
• Blog of Michel Vastel at the L'actualité
  L'actualité
  L'actualité is a Canadian French-language news and general interest magazine published in Montreal by Les Éditions Rogers, which is owned by Rogers Communications. The magazine has over a million readers, according to Canada's Print Measurement Bureau, from its circulation which is mainly...
  
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