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(Source: Radio-Canada) The journalist Michel Vastel died of cancer at the age of 68 years, leaving in mourning his wife and three children.

The journalist Michel Vastel died of cancer Thursday at the age of 68. He leaves in mourning his wife and three children.

Vastel, as it is called, has occupied virtually all journalistic forums Quebec.

The French arrived in Montreal in 1970, was first journalist to Devoir, then to La Presse, the Sun and the law. He also collaborated in the Journal de Montreal, The News magazine, where he also had a blog, and CKAC Radio-Canada.

Michel Vastel was born May 20, 1940, in Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles, in Normandy. His studies were interrupted by compulsory military service because he had to participate in the war of Algeria.

He made his journalistic debut in North Eclair, Tourcoing, the section of faits divers. It is through the exchange Franco-Quebec in 1969, it is first come to Montreal. He retains its French nationality, but settled permanently in Quebec in 1970, the same year that the crisis of October. He worked for almost three years the Ministry of Transport Quebec.

Then he entered the newspaper Les Affaires, and then be hired at Devoir in 1976, while Claude Ryan directs the newspaper of the rue Saint-Sacrement.

He became parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa for Le Devoir until 1989, and then change newspaper to become parliamentary correspondent for La Presse, then director of the Ottawa office for Le Soleil of Quebec City, Ottawa Le Droit, and Le Quotidien de Chicoutimi. He is also collaborating regular magazine L'Actualité since 1977. He will be in Ottawa for 17 years before settling in Montreal in 1995.

Assigned to the Montreal office of the newspaper Le Soleil, he continues his column on politics in the country, paying particular attention to current political provincial capitals of English Canada. In addition to his journalistic activities, he is also author. He publishes Le Neveu in 1987, a book about the Mafia, then Trudeau Quebecer, Bourassa, Lucien Bouchard: pending thereafter, and Landry, the great Landry disturbing.

In 2005, he made a foray into the arts, publishing history Nathalie Simard, a victim of sexual abuse during his young career.

Until the end, will Vastel remained journalist, but above all a great columnist and provocateur. "The role of a columnist is to make people react, to express opinions, trigger reactions," he told the newspaper Edition.

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