Caroline Van Vlaardingen

Caroline is a familiar face to generations of Montrealers. 

Almost immediately after receiving her BA, Caroline began working as a broadcast journalist - starting out as a researcher on the most popular English language station CFCF-TV (now CTV Montreal) and its flagship newscast Pulse News.

She now anchors full-time but has covered thousands of stories in the community and won numerous awards for her work. Some of the major stories she's reported on include the Oka Crisis, the Polytechnique murders, 9/11, and the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States of America. 

Her work as host of "On-Line Montreal," a one-hour live talk-show - allowed her to cover the 1995 referendum on Quebec sovereignty and interview everyone from the late ABC anchor Peter Jennings to Canada’s first female astronaut, Roberta Bondar, and Robert Shapiro, the lawyer who successfully defended OJ Simpson. She has also hosted many live broadcasts and events and lent her support to numerous causes and events in the community. 

Caroline has also taught journalism at Concordia. She’s enjoyed being in the classroom training the next generation of journalists and then working side by side with some of her former students including CTV anchor Maya Johnson and NBC’s foreign correspondent Daniele Hamamdjian. 

In 2016 Caroline was the recipient of the Benoit Pelland Distinguished Service Award at Concordia University, for her on-going work and commitment to her alma mater. She has volunteered on Concordia boards, the Alumni Association and Women Who Lead. Concordia will always be her home university.