Althia Raj

Althia Raj is a Canadian political journalist and a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. She is a regular columnist with the Toronto Star.

Career She was formerly the Ottawa Bureau Chief for HuffPost Canada, where she managed the Quebec City bureau and hosted and produced the politics podcast Follow-Up Finance minister Bill Morneau and Heritage minister Mélanie Joly. She went to school at McGill University, and is a francophone.

Prior to joining HuffPost in August 2011, Raj worked as a national political reporter for Postmedia News and has also reported from Parliament Hill for Sun Media and has been a producer for CTV and for CBC Radio's weekly national political magazine, The House.

In 2016, Raj was in conflict with Senator Leo Housakos when she named him as the source of a leak regarding the Senate's spending audit the previous year. Housakos replied by accusing Raj of conducting a smear campaign against him and demanded an apology when she accused him of lying.

Before becoming a journalist, Raj worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. She later worked as an intern at the Canadian Mission to the United Nations in New York City. She has written an e-book called Contender: The Justin Trudeau Story. Raj joined the Toronto Star in September 2021.