Joan Fraser

Joan Fraser (born October 12, 1944) is a Canadian Senator and former journalist.

Fraser joined the Montreal Gazette in 1965 after graduating from McGill University. After two years as a cub reporter she joined the Financial Times of Canada where she worked for eleven years and served as news editor, editorial page editor and Montreal bureau chief. She returned to The Gazette in 1978 becoming its editor-in-chief in 1993. In 1996 she left that post and from 1997 to 1998 she was director-general of the Centre for Research and Information on Canada.

In 1998, Fraser was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. She sits as a Liberal.