Carol Off

Carol Off

Carol Off is a Canadian television and radio journalist, associated with CBC Television and CBC Radio. Best known as a documentary reporter for "The National", Off also hosted the political debate series "counterSpin" on CBC Newsworld. She presently co-hosts CBC Radio's "As It Happens" with Barbara Budd.She is the vice-president of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.

Off has also written several books on the Canadian military, including "The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle" (2000) and "The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: the Story of Canada's Secret War" (2005, ISBN 0-679-31294-3).

In 2006, she released a book, "Bitter Chocolate", about the corruption and human rights abuses associated with the cocoa industry. She claimed that French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer, who was kidnapped in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, had been murdered for exposing Ivorian government corruption in connection with cocoa. [cite web
url=http://www.su.ualberta.ca/mainpage_content/news/20061106_CarolOff
date=2006-11-11
accessdate=2007-08-25
title=Chocolate a product of child slavery, says CBC broadcaster
publisher=Revolutionary Speaker Series, University of Alberta Student's Union
]

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* [http://www.tla1.com/Talent/Carol_Off/CAROL_OFF.htm Profile on Off]


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