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Carol Off
With extensive experience in both Canadian
and international current affairs, Carol Off
has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Haiti,
the Balkans and the sub-continent, as well as
events in the former Soviet Union, Europe, Asia,
the United States and Canada. She reported the
fallout from the 9/11 disasters with news features
and documentaries from New York, Washington,
London, Cairo and Afghanistan. She has covered
Canadian military missions around the world
including its latest combat operation in Kandahar.
Her award-winning documentaries include: “Fatwas
and Beauty Queens”, the story of a young
Nigerian woman journalist who fled into exile
when her article on a Miss World Pageant was
deemed blasphemous; “Of Crimes and Courage”,
the story of a child who survived the massacre
of her family in Kosovo and then went on to
personally hunt down the killers; “In
the Company of War Lords”, the story of
Washington’s complicity with Afghanistan’s
most murderous criminals; "Playing with
Fire," about the anti-Indian movement in
North America; "Children of Chernobyl”,
the story of Cuba's medical therapy program
for child victims of the Chernobyl disaster;
“Flight from Bosnia”, an investigation
into war criminals who found safe haven in Canada’s
refugee system; and "Thou Shalt Not Kill”,
a profile of religious extremists who kill abortion
doctors.
Carol Off's coverage of the post-war reconstruction
of the Balkans and the war crimes trial for
Yugoslavia led her to write the best-selling
book, The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle: A Story
of Generals and Justice in Yugoslavia and Rwanda,
and another national best-seller on the war
in Croatia, The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The
Story of Canada’s Secret War, which won
the prestigious Dafoe Foundation Award in 2005.
Her most recent book, Bitter Chocolate: Investigating
the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive
Sweet, chronicles the international cocoa industry
and the machinations behind Big Chocolate.
Carol Off was an arts reporter for CBC Stereo
in the early 1980s, when she also wrote for
several periodicals. She was the CBC Ottawa
correspondent for Sunday Morning in the late
1980s covering the Canada/USA Free Trade Agreement,
the Meech Lake Accord, the founding of the Reform
Party and the re-election of Brian Mulroney’s
Progressive Conservatives. She then became CBC
Radio’s National Reporter for the Province
of Quebec where she covered among other stories
the Bloc Quebecois, the Montreal massacre, the
Oka crisis and several election campaigns.
Carol Off has won numerous awards for television
and radio work, among them: a Gemini; two gold
medals from the New York Festival of Television;
a selected screening at the Monte Carlo Television
Festival; several awards and citations from
the Columbia Television awards; a Gabriel award;
a B’nai Brith Award and number of awards
and citation from the National Radio and Television
Association.
She is a graduate of the University of Western
Ontario. She lives and works in Toronto.
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