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Ariel Flint

Ariel Flint

ARIEL FLINT is senior political correspondent for the BCN and host of Show Trial, where pols, hacks and corporate welfare bums are put on the hot seat by an unforgiving “Judge” Flint. As Ariel likes to remind her guests, “The door to Show Trial is locked ... from the outside”, and she prides herself on making sure they find that out for themselves — the hard way.

Ariel first achieved notoriety for her political activism in 1971 as a stunning Miss Mount Pearl. When her victory in the Miss Newfoundland contest was announced, she shocked the packed audience at the Arts and Culture Centre by burning her bathing suit, shaving her head, and getting half way through a rejection speech that is still considered one of the classic statements of Newfoundland feminism.

Further adventures in feminist activism earned her expulsion from the University of Toronto (she was later awarded her degree cum laude, along with a formal apology). A five year stint as Associate Editor at Harper’s was followed by a year of graduate studies at the Columbia Journalism School, prior to her return to take up the BCN’s top news and current affairs post in 1984.

Ariel was elected to the Board of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in 1996, and was awarded a Southam Fellowship in 1997.

Ariel is also a High-Impact Aerobics instructor, and is the only Canadian to hold an Ilsa-dan in the gruelling discipline.