Headlines
Spend a day with National Affairs Correspondent, Lisa LaFlamme
as she anchors CTV News!
Join CTV National Affairs Correspondent Lisa LaFlamme and spend a day behind the scenes with Canada’s #1 broadcast news team CTV News. Throughout this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the winner will take a tour of CTV’s National News Headquarters, also home to TSN and Discovery Channel Canada and will shadow LaFlamme as she prepares to anchor the CTV National News. The winner will attend editorial meetings with senior staff to learn how the newscast is shaped and will get the opportunity to sit at the anchor desk and tape an introduction to the National News as a special take-away.
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Be an intern for a day at Canada’s National Newsmagazine.
Join Maclean’s Senior Associate Publisher, Julie Osborne, and spend a day immersed in the operations of Canada's largest and most imortant current affairs magazine.
You will start the day with a short introduction to the magazine business, followed by a meeting with the Maclean's marketing team.
Then you will join a group of Maclean's editors and writers to participate in an ideas meeting for a special student-focused feature - -and have your chance to write a piece for attribution.
Your name will even be included on the masthead of this special issue!
About Lisa LaFlamme
Lisa LaFlamme is the National Affairs Correspondent for CTV NATIONAL NEWS. Regarded as one of Canada’s top journalists, she is also a regular fill-in anchor for Canada’s #1 national newscast and will be an integral part of the CTV national broadcast team as daytime host of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.
LaFlamme’s career started as a radio news reporter for CFCA-AM 109 in Waterloo from 1989 to 1991. She moved into television as a reporter and anchor for CKCO Kitchener from 1991-97 before taking the national stage as weekend reporter and anchor for CTV NEWS CHANNEL , while also the Consumer Reporter for CTV NEWS. In 1998 she moved to prime time as anchor for CTV NEWS CHANNEL while beginning as substitute anchor on CTV NATIONAL NEWS. Getting a taste of news from our nation’s capital, LaFlamme served as parliamentary correspondent from 2000-01 and then assumed co-hosting duties of CANADA AM from 2001-03. She became National Affairs Correspondent for CTV NATIONAL NEWS in 2003.
LaFlamme regularly unravels complicated political events and national issues for viewers. She was on hand in January 2009 to cover the inauguration of President Barack Obama and reported from China for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. In 2007 LaFlamme examined two of the biggest legal cases in North America: the murder trial of Robert Pickton and the fraud trial of Conrad Black. True to her hard news journalism roots, she has made multiple trips to Iraq and Afghanistan to cover ongoing military activity and even spent 12 days embedded with Canadian forces in 2006 as they tracked the Taliban.
Outside of broadcasting, LaFlamme avidly supports Plan International, formerly known as Foster Parents Plan. Traveling to remote areas for the last several years, she highlights the greatest instances of child poverty throughout the world.
LaFlamme has received five Gemini nominations in the Best News Anchor category and a Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) award for Best Live Coverage. She is an honourary Doctor of Laws from Wilfrid Laurier University. LaFlamme hails from Kitchener, Ont.
About Maclean’s
Maclean's is Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Maclean's enlightens, engages and entertains 2.4 million readers with strong investigative reporting and exclusive stories from leading journalists in the fields of international affairs, social issues, national politics, business and culture.
Arrangements for these experiences will be made directly between the bidder and the mentorship provider.
Mentorship Experiences
Catwalk
Exclusive LG Fashion Week beauty by L’Oréal Paris
(You must be at least 19 to participate in this experience)
SYTYCDC
Two once-in-a-lifetime interactive opportunities
to visit Canada’s top-rated show
So You Think You Can Dance Canada™!
(Experiences to be bid upon separately)
Pink Tartan
A week-long internship with top Canadian label
Pink Tartan during Toronto’s LG Fashion Week!
(You must be at least 16 to participate in this experience.
Minors cannot attend the after-party)
Headlines
Spend a day with CTV News National Affairs
Correspondent, Lisa LaFlamme!
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Be an intern for a day at Maclean’s
See & Be Seen
An afternoon of lunch, shopping and a segment
taping with etalk’s Lainey Lui (LaineyGossip)!
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A one-week job-shadow at HELLO! Canada!
(Date of Lainey portion TBD)
Style by Design
A fabulous hands-on week interning at
House & Home Magazine
(You must be at least 16 to participate in this experience)
Lights! Camera! Action!
Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Experience at the
Toronto International Film Festival!
(This experience has date restrictions)
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2 full days as Deepa Mehta’s assistant
while she directs her next movie!
(Date and location of Deepa portion TBD)
In the Know
Spend a day with the editorial
staff at Toronto Life!
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Enjoy a set visit and show taping at
Entertainment Tonight Canada!
(Time restrictions on the ET Canada portion)
Fashionista
Spend a day interning at FashionTelevision!
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Experience an unforgettable week at Holt Renfrew!
MTV
Spend a day at MTV with Jessi Cruickshank!
(This experience has age and time restrictions)