![Bernard St-Laurent](http://blog.fagstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/berniestlaurent-600x400.jpg)
Bernard St-Laurent
CBC doesn’t usually send press releases about the retirement of its journalists. But Bernard St-Laurent isn’t a simple journalist. The senior political analyst announced today he’s finally hanging up the microphone after 40 years in the business. His last day is June 26.
St-Laurent has a long career as a broadcaster, not only hosting local radio shows like Radio Noon and Homerun and the national program C’est la vie, but guest hosting on just about every national radio show and contributing in various ways to CBC.
Though in his later years his standing as a broadcaster seemed to wane a bit, and he always sounded on air as if he was out of breath, his colleagues are remembering him today as a mentor, a friend, and a wealth of institutional knowledge about Quebec.
![Bernard St-Laurent in a class photo at the press gallery in Quebec City](http://blog.fagstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bernie-cjad-314x450.jpg)
Bernard St-Laurent in a 1978 class photo at the parliamentary press gallery in Quebec City.
Enjoy your retirement, Bernie.
UPDATE: Montreal Gazette story on St-Laurent’s retirement. It notes that C’est la vie, the CBC radio show about francophone Quebec culture, will continue with a new host.
St-Laurent was also on CBC News, doing his job talking about provincial by-elections and then commiserated briefly about missing his colleagues and listeners.