Tasha Kheiriddin

Tasha Kheiriddin (born June 25, 1970) is a conservative Canadian media personality, public policy analyst and commentator.

Early life and education

Kheiriddin was born and raised in Montreal and earned a law degree from McGill University.

Career

After practising law in Montreal, she moved to Toronto, where she served as legislative assistant to the Attorney General of Ontario. Kheiriddin was president of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation of Canada from 1995 to 1998. She subsequently worked as a television producer at CBC Newsworld and a host and producer on the Cable Public Affairs Channel.

Kheiriddin was the Ontario director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for several years before returning to Quebec to join the Montreal Economic Institute, a free-market think tank. She then worked as the director for Quebec in the Montreal office of the Fraser Institute.

From 2011-12, she hosted a Sunday afternoon talk show on Newstalk 1010 and then a business and politics television program, National Affairs, airing weekdays on CTV News Channel. She wrote for the National Post from 2010–16, and served on its editorial board from 2010-11.

She hosted The Tasha Kheiriddin Show on CFMJ in Toronto for three years until March 1, 2019 and has been a commentator on CBC News and RDI and Global Television. She also writes for iPolitics magazine.

Works

In November 2005 she co-wrote Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, with journalist Adam Daifallah.

Recognition

The Canadian Bar Association recognized her in 2003 with the Justicia Award for Excellence in Journalism for her television program, Legal Talk.

In 2012 she was recognized by the Montreal Economic Institute for her contribution to economic education in the media.

She was named one of Canada's "Top 100 Most Powerful Women" by the WXN Network (Women's Executive Network) in 2016.