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Former journalist Joyce Napier named sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s ambassador to the Vatican

OTTAWA — Longtime Ottawa journalist Joyce Napier is headed to the Vatican as sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s new ambassador.
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Ottawa Bureau Chief for CTV National News Joyce Napier speaks during a panel discussion titled ‘Journalists and online hate: What to do when the battlefield is everywhere’ in Ottawa, on Thursday, Dec., 1, 2022. Longtime Ottawa journalist Napier is headed to the Vatican as sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s new ambassador.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

OTTAWA — Longtime Ottawa journalist Joyce Napier is headed to the Vatican as sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s new ambassador. 

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced Napier's appointment and says she will work to advance reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in the new role.

Napier's 40-year career as a journalist included time at The Canadian Press, CBC, The Globe and Mail, La Presse, Radio-sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ and CTV. 

She is the only person to have been a parliamentary bureau chief for both an English and a French network.

Napier's biography says she was born in Montreal and raised in Rome before moving back to sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ as a young woman. 

She speaks French, English and Italian along with some Spanish and Arabic. 

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 8, 2024.

The Canadian Press