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On February 8, Arianna Huffington joined Graham Moysey, Brad Cressman and Dana Toering in Montreal for the launch of Le Huffington Post Québec - the second Canadian edition- and second foreign language edition of the Huffington Post. Starting at 6am, Arianna had a whirlwind (and very long!) day of media interviews- 21 to be exact- including La Presse, Infopresse, Chatelaine Magazine, popular Montreal radio station CJAD and Radio-Canada's TV show 24 heures en 60 minutes with Anne-Marie Dussault, to name a few!

In the midst of the media tour, Arianna addressed a 500-person luncheon on behalf of the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations giving a speech on "How social media are transforming the world." A crowd pleaser to say the least: Arianna captured the audience with her humour, infallible insight to Québec's culture and identity, and sophisticated expression of the Huffington Post model.

When the business was done, the team celebrated the wildly successful launch with a cocktail party. Introduced by Le HuffPost Québec managing editor Patrick White, Arianna toasted clients including launch partner Bell and its media agency, Media Experts, and the AOL Canada and Le HuffPost Québec team including bloggers!

Bonjour! As we celebrate the one-year anniversary of our acquisition of The Huffington Post, we are excited to continue our global expansion with the roll out of Le Huffington Post Quebec. Following the successful launch of Huffington Post Canada in May, the new site will be run by a strong locally-based editorial team with deep personal and professional roots in the province. Led by the site's managing editor, Patrick White, this French-language edition will encompass all things Québec and its staff will include Jean-Philippe Cipriani, as news editor and Tamy-Emma Pepin, as managing blog editor. Bloggers who will be contributing to the site include: Michel Martelly, Yves-François Blanchet, Michel Kelly Gagnon, Julius Grey, Anne Marie Withenshaw, and more. This is also the first time we'll have two HuffPost editions in the same country!

Find out more about the site from Arianna Huffington's blog post, and make sure you check out our other global sites, France's Le Huffington Post and The Huffington Post UK.

We'll soon celebrate the one year anniversary of our acquisition of The Huffington Post and we couldn't be prouder. Since the deal closed in March 2011, we have launched forty-four new verticals, attracted 20,000 bloggers and surpassed 130 million comments, exceeding our growth expectations, while connecting millions of users to content covering all aspects of their lives. We've increased our hyper local reach with eight local city editions and expanded internationally in key markets with the launches of HuffPost UK, HuffPost Canada, and Le Huffington Post in France. Launches in Italy and Spain are already planned for later this year enabling us to continue to cover the latest news and events with a global perspective.

Our long list of luminary bloggers provide opinions on a wide-range of topics making news today and include politicians, celebrities, academics and policy experts. Among them are Nora Ephron, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Bill Maher, Robert Redford, Alec Baldwin, Deepak Chopra, Scarlett Johansson, Al Gore, Elton John, Cindy McCain, Rita Wilson, Bill Gates, and Charlie Rose.

From politics and parenting to science and style, conversations start at The Huffington Post, and you can expect only bigger and better things in 2012. Read more about the accomplishments achieved in the last year in Arianna Huffington's blog post.

Cheers!

At the DLD conference in Munich last week, Arianna Huffington was honored with the presentation of the Aenna Burda Award, which recognizes visionary female entrepreneurs.

Accepting the 2012 Aenna Burda award @DLDConference from Maria Furtwangler- Burda. The statue is a bust of Athena! twitter.com/ariannahuff/st...

- Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) January 24, 2012

In a statement on Tuesday, the conference organizers said that the Aenne Burda Award "honors women for their entrepreneurial and creative achievements within the digital industry." Burda founded Hubert Burda Media, one of the world's largest fashion publishing houses, in post-war Germany.

To learn more about the award, view previous winners, and see more pictures from the DLD conference, read the full post on HuffPost Media.

Today, the Huffington Post Media Group marks the launch of Le Huffington Post, a collaboration that aims to combine the best parts of the Huffington Post platform (news, blogging, community and social engagement) with the unique French personality, perspective and culture that only our partners Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Éditions Indépendantes can bring.

Our launch day posts include a wide array of thoughts and perspective including those of University of Paris professor Guy Carcassonne, fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro, war reporter Anne Nivat, member of Parliament Julien Dray, member of European Parliament and former minister of justice Rachida Dati, historian Benjamin Stora, blogger Catherine Cerisey, comedian Nicolas Bedos, and journalist and sociologist Guillaume Erner.

Le Huffington Post will be lead by of Paul Ackermann, the editor-in-chief in charge of daily operations, who joined Huffington Post from Le Figaro.

For more about the launch, read Arianna Huffington's post in English or French, and be sure to follow the latest headlines from Le Huffington Post on Twitter at @LeHuffPost (in French, of course).

Le Huffington Post (@lehuffpost) launches aol.it/yx2Kxk

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) January 23, 2012