Tasha Kheiriddin

Tasha Kheiriddin is columnist and member of the editorial board of the National Post. A Montreal native, Tasha is a graduate of Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (1988) and the law faculty of McGill (1993). After graduation, Tasha practiced litigation in Montreal and then worked as the legislative assistant to the attorney general of Ontario. In 1998, she began working in television, producing a political current affairs program with CBC Newsworld, and then host-producing three programs with the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC), for which she was awarded the Justicia Award for Excellence in Journalism by the Canadian Bar Association. In 2004, Tasha entered the world of public policy and advocacy, joining the Canadian Taxpayers Federation as their Ontario director, and in 2005 she co-authored the bestseller, Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, with former National Post editorial board member Adam Daifallah. Tasha then moved back to Montreal, where she served as vice-president of the Montreal Economic Institute and later director for Quebec of the Fraser Institute, while also lecturing on conservative politics at McGill University. She currently resides in Whitby, Ontario, with her daughter Zara, born in 2009.