Antonia Zerbisias is a Canadian journalist associated with the Toronto Star from 1989 until she took early retirement from the paper on 31 October 2014.
14 Facts About Antonia Zerbisias
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Antonia Zerbisias has been a reporter and TV host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as the Montreal correspondent for the trade paper, Variety.
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Antonia Zerbisias was nominated for ACTRA awards for her documentary writing in 1980 and 1981, and won the 1996 National Newspaper Award for critical writing for her columns about magazines.
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Petros Zerbisias immigrated from Greece to Canada arriving in Halifax in 1928.
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Antonia Zerbisias settled in Montreal where he met his wife, Loula, where they owned and operated the Deli-Q restaurant.
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Antonia Zerbisias attended Wagar High School in the suburb of Cote-St-Luc.
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Antonia Zerbisias was married to the late Mark Blandford, a prominent Quebec television producer, director and screenwriter.
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Antonia Zerbisias has a BA in applied social sciences from Concordia University.
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Antonia Zerbisias moved to Toronto and worked as a researcher on the Larry Solway Show for a year before returning to Montreal in 1975.
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Antonia Zerbisias joined the Toronto Star as a TV columnist in 1989.
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Antonia Zerbisias was assigned to the Montreal bureau in 1991.
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Antonia Zerbisias continued as media critic until June 2007, when she became the social issues and cultural affairs columnist at the Toronto Star.
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Antonia Zerbisias took early retirement from the Star on 31 October 2014.
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That's context I sure wish I had known" and conceded that Antonia Zerbisias' comment "was intended as sarcastic irony, stock in trade for this columnist and blogger.