Michel Venne is a Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 journalist, author and intellectual. He is a columnist for the Montreal

Montreal

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 newspaper Le Devoir

Le Devoir

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. He is founder and director of the Institut du Nouveau Monde. Venne is a vocal advocate of Quebec independence

Quebec sovereignty movement

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  and of progressive

Progressivism

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, social democratic

Social democracy

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 politics.

Venne studied communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal

Université du Québec à Montréal

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 (UQÀM) and political science at Université Laval

Université Laval

Laval University is the oldest centre of education in Canada and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French...

, in Quebec City

Quebec City

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. At Le Devoir, he has been parliamentary correspondent at the National Assembly of Quebec

National Assembly of Quebec

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, editor, and news director. He is editor of L'annuaire du Québec, an exhaustive annual publication on Quebec affairs, sold in bookstores.

Author

• Vie privée et démocratie à l'ère de l'informatique (1994)
• Ces fascinantes inforoutes (1995)
• Les Porteurs de liberté (2001)
• Souverainistes, que faire? (2002)

Director

• Penser la nation québécoise (2000)
• La Révolution génétique (2001)
• Santé : Une thérapie de choc (2001)
• Justice, prospérité et démocratie. L'avenir du modèle québécois (2003)

External links

• Article archive (1996 to 2004) at Vigile.net