Dennis Trudeau is a Montreal broadcaster. From 1987 to 2005 he was the anchor of the supper hour local news show on CBMT in Montreal.
Trudeau worked with the CBC from 1979. For eight years he hosted the local show Daybreak on CBM before becoming a national radio host fronting As It Happens and Cross-Country Checkup during the 1980s. His journalism career dates back to the 1970s as a print reporter covering Quebec politics for the Montreal Gazette and the defunct Montreal Star.
During Trudeau's career at the CBC, he covered such stories as the funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau (no relation), the 1995 Quebec referendum, and the 1989 École Polytechnique Massacre.
Trudeau defended À la hauteur de Grand Central Station, je me suis assise et j'ai pleuré by Elizabeth Smart, the French version of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, in the French version of Canada Reads (Le combat des livres), broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2005.
He left the CBC in 2005 and in September 2007 became co-host of the morning drive news-talk team on Montreal radio station CINW AM 940.