René Homier-Roy

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René Homier-Roy (5 April 1940 – 14 September 2025) was a Canadian journalist and TV presenter from Montreal. His parents were Émilien Roy and Rolande Homier. He studied architecture at McGill University and political science at the University of Ottawa and the Université de Montréal. He worked for La Presse from 1969 to 1973, then founded the magazine Nous in 1973. He later wrote as a freelancer for Châtelaine, TV Hebdo, and L’actualité. From 1989 to 1993, he hosted La Bande des six with a team that included Marie-France Bazzo and Dany Laferrière. In 1995, he became a film critic for TQS. In July 2012, he publicly came out as gay after his partner Pierre Morin died. In April 2013, he announced that he would retire from television at the end of the season of Radio-Canada’s C’est bien meilleur le matin. He died on 14 September 2025 at the age of 85.