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Janice Tait

Janice Tait

Janice Tait has had a long and varied career as a teacher, policy analyst and psychotherapist. A private intellectual and writer throughout her life, Janice Tait has published policy work in Canadian Policy Options, Canadian Woman Studies Journal and the Canadian Law Review.

In recent years she has written articles for Maclean’s magazine and Facts and Arguments in The Globe and Mail. Janice Tait has developed two programs for CBC Outfront, including one on learning to age gracefully from her 100 year old aunt which aired in 2003.

For 20 years Janice Tait was in the Canadian diplomatic service as the wife of Richard Tait a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of External Affairs. In this capacity she lived in Greece, Switzerland, Vietnam and the United Kingdom, as well as Canada, raising three daughters and gaining an insider’s view of diplomatic life, Canadian foreign policy and world affairs.

After studies in Geneva and obtaining a teaching certificate in Canada, Janice Tait became a teacher in the 1960s, and taught English at a community college in Ottawa and to students in Saigon. Six years of teaching was followed by work as a policy analyst with the Department of the Environment and Transport Canada. In 1991, she received a Master’s of Education in Applied Psychology and became a practising psychotherapist.

Janice Tait lives in Toronto.