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Jonathan Pedneault
Jonathan Pedneault (born 1990) is a Canadian politician, activist, and journalist who served as the co-leader of the Green Party of Canada in 2025, alongside Elizabeth May. He had previously served as the party's deputy leader from 2022 to 2024. He is the first Québécois to serve as leader of the Greens.
Pedneault was born an only child of a single mother in Greenfield Park, on the south shore of Montreal.
When he was 15, Pedneault co-founded Soprégé, or Société de Prévention du Génocide, a student organization dedicated to raising awareness about the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the crisis in Darfur. In 2006, Pedneault submitted the draft of a bill on the Canadian Responsibility for the Prevention of Genocide to his local MP, Caroline St-Hilaire.
That year, Pedneault received a national scholarship from the Millennium Scholarship Program and was named Personnalité de la Semaine by Québec newspaper La Presse and Radio-Canada. Following his graduation from Jacques-Rousseau high school in Longueuil, Pedneault enrolled as a political science student at the University of Ottawa, beginning his undergraduate classes in the fall of 2007.
In 2008, shortly before his 18th birthday, Pedneault travelled to Chad and crossed into Sudan’s Darfur with rebels from the Justice and Equality movement to report on the humanitarian crisis and co-produce a CBC/Radio-Canada documentary.
Between 2010 and 2012, Pedneault codirected The New Great Game, a 52-minute documentary produced for CBC/Radio-Canada, Al-Jazeera and Arte about the multipolarization of the Middle East's maritime spaces. Pedneault directed filming and reporting in the region, securing access to both Somali pirates in Galmudug’s town of Hobyo and to NATO anti-piracy naval forces patrolling the Indian Ocean.
Pedneault was attacked by a large mob when deployed to cover the 2011 Egyptian Revolution for L’Actualité. Injured on the head as he tried to help American journalist Greg Palkot, he was hospitalized and later detained by the Egyptian military alongside Fox News journalists. In an interview with GQ, Palkot said: “[A] Canadian guy—he's a young guy, a 20-year-old journalist, actually—had made it to that APC okay, and he actually had gotten on top of it. And he saw me, my face full of blood, my body full of blood, getting pummeled, and he tried to pull me up over the side of the APC. And for his help he got rifle-butted off of the thing and had to find his way to safety, and luckily he did.”
Pedneault returned to the region later that year to cover the western and eastern fronts of the Libyan civil war. He travelled with James Foley and John Lee Anderson to Tripoli a few days after rebel forces took the capital from Muammar Gaddafi. Foley and Pedneault shared a hotel room in Tripoli with Matthew Van Dyke and a fourth journalist, sharing rides and reporting together as rebels continued to fight pockets of Gaddafi sympathizers in the city.
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Jonathan Pedneault
Jonathan Pedneault (born 1990) is a Canadian politician, activist, and journalist who served as the co-leader of the Green Party of Canada in 2025, alongside Elizabeth May. He had previously served as the party's deputy leader from 2022 to 2024. He is the first Québécois to serve as leader of the Greens.
Pedneault was born an only child of a single mother in Greenfield Park, on the south shore of Montreal.
When he was 15, Pedneault co-founded Soprégé, or Société de Prévention du Génocide, a student organization dedicated to raising awareness about the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the crisis in Darfur. In 2006, Pedneault submitted the draft of a bill on the Canadian Responsibility for the Prevention of Genocide to his local MP, Caroline St-Hilaire.
That year, Pedneault received a national scholarship from the Millennium Scholarship Program and was named Personnalité de la Semaine by Québec newspaper La Presse and Radio-Canada. Following his graduation from Jacques-Rousseau high school in Longueuil, Pedneault enrolled as a political science student at the University of Ottawa, beginning his undergraduate classes in the fall of 2007.
In 2008, shortly before his 18th birthday, Pedneault travelled to Chad and crossed into Sudan’s Darfur with rebels from the Justice and Equality movement to report on the humanitarian crisis and co-produce a CBC/Radio-Canada documentary.
Between 2010 and 2012, Pedneault codirected The New Great Game, a 52-minute documentary produced for CBC/Radio-Canada, Al-Jazeera and Arte about the multipolarization of the Middle East's maritime spaces. Pedneault directed filming and reporting in the region, securing access to both Somali pirates in Galmudug’s town of Hobyo and to NATO anti-piracy naval forces patrolling the Indian Ocean.
Pedneault was attacked by a large mob when deployed to cover the 2011 Egyptian Revolution for L’Actualité. Injured on the head as he tried to help American journalist Greg Palkot, he was hospitalized and later detained by the Egyptian military alongside Fox News journalists. In an interview with GQ, Palkot said: “[A] Canadian guy—he's a young guy, a 20-year-old journalist, actually—had made it to that APC okay, and he actually had gotten on top of it. And he saw me, my face full of blood, my body full of blood, getting pummeled, and he tried to pull me up over the side of the APC. And for his help he got rifle-butted off of the thing and had to find his way to safety, and luckily he did.”
Pedneault returned to the region later that year to cover the western and eastern fronts of the Libyan civil war. He travelled with James Foley and John Lee Anderson to Tripoli a few days after rebel forces took the capital from Muammar Gaddafi. Foley and Pedneault shared a hotel room in Tripoli with Matthew Van Dyke and a fourth journalist, sharing rides and reporting together as rebels continued to fight pockets of Gaddafi sympathizers in the city.
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