A Montreal native, Tasha is a graduate of Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (1988) and the law faculty of McGill University (1993). Tasha practiced litigation in Montreal before working as the legislative assistant to the Attorney General of Ontario.
In 1998 she began working in television, producing a political current affairs program with CBC Newsworld and then host-producing three programs with the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), for which she won the Justicia Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2003. She has since worked for the National Post, iPolitics,ca, CTV, Radio Canada and Global Television and in 2016 was recognized by the WXN Network as one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
In 2004 Tasha joined the Canadian Taxpayers Federation as their Ontario Director, and in 2005 co-authored Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, with journalist Adam Daifallah. Tasha then served as Vice-President of the Montreal Economic Institute, and later Director for Quebec of the Fraser Institute, while also lecturing on conservative politics at McGill University. In recognition of her influence on economic affairs, Tasha was awarded the 2012 Economic Education Prize from the Institut Economique de Montreal.
Tasha Kheiriddin now lives in Toronto where she is a principal with the strategic communications firm Navigator and the national political columnist for Postmedia. Her most recent book, The Right Path: How Conservatives can Unite, Inspire and Take Canada Forward was published in 2022. She also writes regularly on her Substack, In My Opinion
Course taught 2019/20:
Complexity Seminar: Partisan Politics and the Policy Process
Degrees:
LLB, McGill University
BCL, McGill University
DEC, Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (Social Sciences)
