WATCH LIVE
Joanna Lavoie

Articles for Joanna Lavoie

Joanna Lavoie

CP24 Web Content Writer

Toronto

Joanna Lavoie joined CP24.com as a digital journalist in May 2022, covering breaking news and social justice issues in Toronto and the GTHA.

A long-time Toronto journalist, Lavoie has covered some of city’s biggest news stories. She has also extensively written about the the GTA's drug poisoning and affordable housing/homelessness crises, and its many other inequities. Several of her pieces have been picked up nationally and internationally.

Before coming to CP24, Lavoie worked for Torstar Corp. reporting for Metroland Media’s Toronto communities division. Her work also appeared in the Toronto Star.

A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism with a specialization in broadcasting.

Lavoie also speaks regularly about her work and industry with students, groups, and other media outlets.

A married mother of two young daughters, she is a passionate Latin dancer and acroyogi, and a devoted bonne vivante.

Lavoie speaks English and French.



WEATHER

MOR
22°C
AFT
29°C
EVE
24°C
NIGHT
17°C
MOR
22°C
AFT
29°C

WEATHER WARNING IN EFFECT

No watches or warnings in effect.


Must Read

  • Chief experience officer for Sensei Labs Tara Vanderloo poses in this undated handout photo. When employees working for Tara Vanderloo, the chief experience officer at Toronto enterprise software company Sensei Labs, are mulling leaving her enterprise software company, she wants to be one of the first people they tell -- and to hear their unvarnished reasons why. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Sensei Labs

    Canadian companies adopt 'stay interviews' as workers rethink careers, needs

  • Ninety-six year old Rejeanne Fairhead, left, shown in this handout image, says until two years ago the most athletic things she had ever done involved bowling and horse shoes. Now she is a world-record holding racer. Fairhead completed the 5K race at the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend Saturday in just over 51 minutes.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend **MANDATORY CREDIT **

    The fastest 96-year-old woman in the world: Ottawa woman breaks 5K race record

  • An Asiana Airlines plane is parked as one of the plane's doors suddenly opened at Daegu International Airport in Daegu, South Korea, Friday, May 26, 2023. A passenger opened a door on an Asiana Airlines flight that later landed safely at a South Korean airport Friday, airline and government officials said. (Yun Kwan-shick/Yonhap via AP)

    Man who opened emergency door on South Korea flight told police he felt suffocated

  • Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser speaks during a news conference in Vancouver on May 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

    New system will bring families of immigrants to Canada faster: Fraser

CP24 App


Latest CP24 Tweets



CP24 Toronto's Breaking News


Homicide and Crime Tracker

Homicides map

Traffic Fatalities

Traffic fatalities
CTV.ca CTV Two CTVNews CTV News Channel BNN Bloomberg CP24

Use of this Website assumes acceptance of Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy

© 2023 Bell Media All rights reserved.