Kirk LaPointe

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Kirk LaPointe (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian journalist and former Vancouver politician. He grew up in Toronto with a single mother and studied journalism at Ryerson. As a teen he hosted It's Up To You on Maclean-Hunter Cable TV and helped run campus media at Ryerson.

LaPointe started at The Canadian Press in 1980 and worked in Toronto and Ottawa in various reporting and editor roles. He joined CBC at its Newsworld launch in 1989 and later held senior editorial posts at CP, Southam News, and the Hamilton Spectator, helping launch the National Post as its founding editor. He served again at the Spectator until 1999, and in 2010 became CBC’s ombudsman.

He later moved into publishing in Vancouver, becoming Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Self-Counsel Press in 2013, hosting on Roundhouse Radio in 2015, and then joining Glacier Media, where he rose to Editor-in-Chief, then Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, and now serves as a Glacier Media columnist and The Hub’s BC correspondent. He teaches ethics and leadership at the University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism since 2004.

LaPointe ran for Mayor of Vancouver in 2014 as the NPA candidate and finished second. He briefly considered another run in 2017 but did not pursue it. As of 2025, a Mainstreet Research poll suggested he could lead the 2026 Vancouver municipal election with the Conservative Electors Association.