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Diane Francis is a Canadian journalist, author, and the editor-at-large for the National Post newspaper. Her columns are syndicated across Canada's largest newspaper chain in major cities. She also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.

Francis is also a broadcaster and a best-selling author of nine books on a variety of socio-economic subjects for Canadians. Her book titled Fighting for Canada was published in the French language as Maîtres Chanteurs Chez Nous!. In it, she alleged subversive tactics and violation of human rights by certain members of the Quebec sovereignty movement during the 1995 Quebec referendum.

Francis has been the recipient of a number of awards for her work in journalism from various organizations, publications, and universities throughout Canada. She is Distinguished Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada's largest business school. She has been a fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center and a media fellow at the World Economic Forum. She has served on the advisory board of the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research and a member of the board of directors for CARE Canada, and as the volunteer chair for the fund-raising campaign for Ryerson University's community health center.

In September 2007, Diane Francis became a Director of Aurizon Mines Ltd., listed on the Toronto and American Stock Exchanges. In November 2009, she became a trust for the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, a world leader in oceanography research. Her 9th book, Who Owns Canada Now? was published in March 2008 by Harper Collins and profiles Canada's 75 billionaires, 36 of whom have never been interviewed before.

In December 2009, Francis called for a global imposition of China's one-child policy.

Francis is married and has two children .

National Review, The American Spectator , and Newsbusters have accused Francis of hypocrisy for favoring a global one child policy while she herself has two children.

prisonplanet.com cited Francis' wikipedia biography's citation that she had two children as evidence of her hypocrisy.

Bibliography

• Who Owns Canada Now (2008)
• Immigration: The Economic Case (2002)
• Underground Nation (2002)
• BRE-X: The Inside Story (1998)
• Fighting for Canada (1996)
• A Matter of Survival (1993)
• The Diane Francis Inside Guide to Canada's 50 Best Stocks (1990)
• Contrepreneurs (1988)
• Controlling Interest - Who Owns Canada (1986)

References

1. ^ "Official biography". Retrieved 2007-03-31.
2. ^ ""Fighting for Canada"". official website. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
3. The real inconvenient truth
4. Prominent Canadian Journalist Calls for Imposed Planetary One-Child Policy
5. Diane Francis' Life
6. What I Meant Was You People Should Only Have One Child, National Review, December 11, 2009
7. Diane Francis is Killing the Planet, American Spectator, December 11, 2009
8. The Canadian Financial Post: ‘The Whole World Needs to Adopt China’s One-Child Policy’, Newsbusters, December 11, 2009
9. Furious Reaction To Sick Editorial Calling For Global One Child Dictatorship, prisonplanet.com, December 11, 2009

• 1946 births
• Living people
• Canadian columnists
• Canadian political writers
• American expatriate writers in Canada