Officer of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2006-04-06
Invested on: 2007-02-09
Michele Landsberg is a leading Canadian journalist and writer who has, for the past four decades, been an influential social reformer. She brings a feminist perspective to her writings, rallying her many readers to action. As a columnist with The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star and later, as editor of Chatelaine, she has steadily gained national prominence. Her writings have brought clarity to complex issues and awakened the social consciousness of Canadians as she exposed the human side of the many struggles for justice that she has embraced over the years.