Mary Lou Finlay
Biography:
MARY LOU FINLAY is a Canadian radio and television journalist with 35 years experience in her field. She is best known for hosting programs on CTV, CBC Radio and CBC Television.
These roles include: co-hosting CBC Television's Take 30 (1975); hosting her own program, Finlay and Company (1976 and 1977); co-hosting and producing CTV's award-winning Live It Up! (1978 to 1981); co-hosting (and later becoming a documentary reporter for) CBC Television's nightly current affairs program, The Journal (1981 to 1988); hosting CBC Radio's current affairs program, Sunday Morning (1988 to 1994); hosting CBC Radio's weekly media watchdog program, Now The Details (1994 to 1997); and, finally, co-hosting CBC's interviews program, As It Happens (1997 to 2005).
In 2008, she released The As It Happens Files: Radio That May Contain Nuts (Knopf Canada), a book of reminiscences of her time on the show.
She was a pilot, and flew small planes, as she revealed in an on-air interview with test pilot Chuck Yeager on As It Happens.
Finlay graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1967 with a BA in English and French literature. For three years she did writing and researching for the Canadian War Museum before her leap to journalism.
Activities:
- 2020-01-10 – Pierre Trudeau Centennial — Liberal Internationalism, Then and Now: The Foreign Policy of Pierre Trudeau
- 2022-11-22 – Responsible Economics: Are Canadian Fiscal and Monetary Policies Appropriately Aligned?