Patrick Barnard
Producer Patrick Barnard is a teacher and journalist who came to Montreal
from New York in 1967. At the present time, he teaches English Literature
at Dawson College.
He has spent more than half of his professional life as a radio journalist for CBC, Radio Netherlands, and WBAI in New York. His commentaries on global politics -- "The International Press Review" --ran for six years on CBC Radio's local Montreal morning show.
In the print media, he has published free-lance articles for a number of journals including The Nation, Commonweal, New York Newsday, and The Gazette in Montreal.
In 1980 Patrick published a translation of the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, The Language of Silent Things.
He has appeared in Manufacturing Consent, a film that showcases how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine.
Contact: p b a r n a r d @ v i d e o t r o n . c a(remove spaces)
Patrick Barnard is a founding member of Save The Park! Sauvons le parc! - a group dedicated to protecting historic Westmount Park, and especially its beautiful, open, multi-purpose fields.
Patrick says: "No to synturf! No to fences!"
Learn more about Save the Park by clicking on the this U-Tube Video