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Victor Malarek

Victor Malarek has been a journalist for three decades. Currently, he is Co-Host of CTV’s current affairs show W-FIVE. From 2000 to June 2003, he was the investigations editor for The Globe and Mail and from 1990 to 2000, Malarek was a host of the CBC’s award winning, investigative documentary current affairs show, "the fifth estate".

Born in Lachine, Quebec in 1948, Victor has often been described as a crusading reporter. He began his career in journalism as a copy boy at Weekend Magazine in Montreal in 1968. Two years later, Malarek joined The Montreal Star as a police reporter and was one of the first journalists to report on the 1970 FLQ-October Crisis.

A year later, he broke a front-page story that would set the stage for his move into the world of investigative journalism. The story involved three teenage boys who hanged themselves with skate laces in a sorely mismanaged Montreal juvenile detention centre over the Christmas holidays.

In 1976, Victor joined The Globe and Mail where he garnered three prestigious Governor General Awards for “meritorious public service journalism.”. In 1997, Victor won a Gemini Award as Canada’s Top Broadcast Journalist and in 2001, his hard-hitting "the fifth estate" investigation into the Toronto Police Union led to a fourth Michener Award.