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Featured articles by Joe Lofaro
- Quebec has issued $45M in fines during the pandemic, but only a fraction of them have been paid
- Quebec’s advice on booster shots ‘doesn't make a whole lot of sense,’ public health experts say
- Pornhub owner settles lawsuit with 50 women, including four Canadians
- 'You baboon, learn to speak French': Quebec woman wins human rights complaint after neighbour’s harassment
- Woman says McGill didn’t fire coach after reporting misogynistic tweets, alleged sexual abuse
- 'Really disgusting': Jets fan says he was punched, robbed of his jersey in Montreal
- Montreal luxury home of PornHub owner destroyed in suspected arson
Articles by Joe Lofaro
- Former STM chairperson Philippe Schnobb to lead probe into Montreal Pride parade cancellation
- Quebec reports 56 fewer COVID-19 hospitalizations, 18 new deaths
- Perimeter lifted, but operation continues after Montreal East shooting
- U.S. teen leaves hospital 3 months after drive-by shooting in Laval, Que.
- Laval police arrest alleged gang member following May 9 drive-by shooting
- Religious minorities feel less safe, welcome in Quebec since Bill 21 was adopted: survey
- Montreal police looking for missing woman
- Body of man found in Montreal recycling bin identified
- Montreal mayor requests independent investigation into cancellation of Pride parade
- Police open homicide investigation after man's body found in Montreal recycling bin
- As families mourn, questions about why Montreal killing spree suspect was released from psychiatric facility
- Feds give nearly $42 million in funding to prevent Quebec gun violence
- Gunman in Montreal-area killing spree was released from institution despite 'significant risk'
- Man gunned down on Laval boulevard, police say
- Journalist Martine Biron joins list of media figures running in Quebec election
- Father of Quebec boxer David Lemieux among victims in fatal Montreal shootings
- B'nai Brith funding lawsuit against McGill University over 'anti-Israel referendums'
- Tornado warning lifted for Lachute-Saint-Jerome
- Quebec COVID-19 hospitalizations remain mostly stable as province records 13 new deaths
- 'Black and driving a luxury vehicle': Quebec man wins racial profiling case against Repentigny police
Joe Lofaro
ContactJoe Lofaro is a digital reporter at CTV Montreal.
Born and raised in Ottawa, he got his start in journalism in the nation’s capital at the Metro Ottawa newspaper. There, he covered some of the biggest stories of his career, including the Parliament Hill shootings and an expose on the Ottawa Police Service’s tendency to dismiss sexual assault complaints as unfounded. The small but mighty paper also sent him across the globe in 2013 to South Korea where he had the honour to interview veterans of the Korean War who were visiting the country to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice.
He then followed in his dad’s footsteps and was hired as a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen in 2016, where he worked primarily in the paper’s courts bureau. He reported extensively at the time on the Supreme Court of Canada’s Jordan decision and its effects on cases of murder and child abuse, and published an exposé on allegations of historical sexual assault involving a local priest.
In 2017, he joined CBC Ottawa as a digital reporter where he also got to broaden his skills into radio and report the news on Ottawa’s airwaves.
He switched careers one year later to work as a digital content writer in the Senate of Canada’s communications directorate — a job that allowed him to document the work of senators on a fact-finding mission throughout northern Canada and learn about life in the Arctic.
He moved to Montreal in March 2021 to join the CTV newsroom.