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Natasha Fatah is a Canadian journalist, based in Toronto, Ontario.

She is currently a producer at CBC Radio One's national current affairs radio show As It Happens,^[1] Toronto beat reporter for their Ontario regional weekend morning show Fresh Air, and author of the column "Minority Report" in cbc.ca's Viewpoint section.

Fatah was born in Karachi, Pakistan and spent most of her childhood in Saudi Arabia between Riyadh and Jeddah; she has also lived in Amsterdam, Montreal and Mexico City. Fatah earned a degree in political science at the University of Toronto,^[1] and then earned another degree in journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.^[1]

Before her assignments in Toronto, she was a television and radio reporter for CBC Windsor,^[1] filing for CBE radio and CBET-TV. In 1996, she was host of News from the Muslim World on Vision TV.

From 1999 to 2000, Fatah was co-chair of the Ontario New Democratic Youth.^[2] In the wake of the 1999 Ontario provincial election, Fatah called for Howard Hampton to resign his leadership of the Ontario New Democratic Party.^[3] Hampton did not do so.

Her father is Tarek Fatah.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} CBC.ca, "Analysis & Viewpoint: Natasha Fatah- Minority Report," URL accessed 24 February 2007.
2. ^ "Power struggle brewing in Ontario NDP: Some members critical of Hargrove, others unhappy with Hampton," Standard, St. Catharines, Ontario: September 27, 1999, pg. A.7.
3. ^ Mark Stevenson, "Ontario NDP says Buzz can stay," Calgary Herald, September 26, 1999, pg. A.5.

External links

• Minority Report column and biography (cbc.ca)
• Fresh Air (CBC Radio One Toronto)