Ellin Bessner

Ellin Bessner is a journalist, author and speaker. She is the host of the flagship news podcast of The Canadian Jewish News, "North Star". Ellin worked at CBC News as a radio and television reporter, and a foreign correspondent. She covered three civil wars in Africa, reported from Rome, Italy for six years covering the Vatican, and worked at CTV in Toronto from 1997- 2005 where she helped launch CTV's all news channel. She also taught journalism for over two decades at Centennial College, and before that at Seneca College and Toronto Metropolitan University. 
Ellin is the author of "Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military and World War ll."  (Published by the University of Toronto Press April 2018) and a contributing author to "Northern Lights: A Canadian Jewish History" (Published by the Lola Stein Institute, 2020.)
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