Her TV debut was in 1988 and in the summer of 1990 she provided coverage of the Oka crisis. Later on, she became a journalist for the morning show Salut, Bonjour!. She also collaborated on the Le Match de la vie involving colleague Claude Charron.
In 2002, following the departure of Simon Durivage, she became the anchor of Le TVA 22 heures, where she maintained an average audience of about 650,000 viewers. Sophie Thibault was the subject of a master's thesis by a former rad-can journalist in the United States: La Perspective féminine dans les téléjournaux.[1]
In 2022 she moved to the network's early-evening TVA Nouvelles 17h, and was succeeded as anchor of the prime-time edition by Pierre-Olivier Zappa.[2] In 2023 she took some time off the program to undergo treatment for skin cancer, returning to 17h in January 2024.[3]
She has remained close to her mother, who suffered from chronic multiple sclerosis. Her father, former news director of Radio-Canada Marc Thibault, died in 2006.
Personal honors
2003: Woman of honor at the "Evening of the rare pearls" of the Montreal metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
2003: Prix MetroStar, Best reporter for a news bulletin.
2004: Prix MetroStar, Best reporter for a news bulletin, and also a trophy for best public personality.
2005:Gala YMCA, Woman of the year award in communications.
2005: Prix MetroStar, Best reporter for a news bulletin.
