Joel Ruimy provides TSA with exceptional writing and editing services developed as one of Canada’s top bilingual journalists over 30 years with national newspapers and television.
Joel began his career in 1973 as rewrite man in the Montreal bureau of The Canadian Press while still in university. In the decade that followed, Joel worked at the Quebec City bureau of the Montreal newspaper The Gazette as a Staff Legislature Correspondent, covering the ground-breaking PQ Government and the ensuing political upheaval, the federal elections of 1979 and 1980, and the Quebec independence referendum of 1980.
In 1983 Joel joined the Parliamentary Bureau of Canada’s largest daily, The Toronto Star. Over the next five years he covered the departure of Pierre Trudeau, the race to succeed him, the brief tenure of his replacement, John Turner, and the victory of Brian Mulroney.
Joel broadened his media experience by joining CBC Television in Ottawa, spending the next six years applying a print journalist's background to television news. In 1994, he moved to Windsor, Ontario, as Executive Producer of the newly created supper-hour CBC-TV news program in that city. He led a team that took the Windsor program from scratch to Number 1 in the local ratings – in less than six months.
After nine years of news management, Joel rejoined The Toronto Star as Legislature Bureau Chief at Queen’s Park. In 1999, he returned to CBC-TV as Executive News Producer in Toronto.
In 2001 Joel became Executive Director of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), an advocacy group working to preserve and promote press freedom and free expression in Canada and internationally.