Edith Cody-Rice

Edith H. Cody-Rice is a Senior Legal Counsel for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where she specializes in media law, privacy and freedom of information legislation. From 2000 to 2005 she was Privacy Officer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and has given frequent lectures on the application of privacy legislation in Canada. She also lectures on Legal Aspects of Broadcasting as well as on employment assistance programs, one of which she helped to originate and implement at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She also implemented a records management program at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She has frequently appeared before Canadian Parliamentary committees concerning legislation touching the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Personal life

Cody-Rice holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, an M.A. in English literature from the University of Waterloo, a BSc Nursing degree from the University of Toronto and a Diplôme de la civilisation française from the Sorbonne, University of Paris, France.

She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, the FETCO Chief Privacy Officers Group and is a member of the executive of the Ontario Bar Association Privacy Section. Cody-Rice is a past National Chair of the Writers’ Trust of Canada, founder of the annual fundraising dinner for the Writers’ Trust in Ottawa “Politics and the Pen”, a director of the Writers Foundation of Canada, a charter director of Ottawa International Writers’ Festival, and a fundraiser for the Ottawa Public Library. She is married to prominent Canadian journalist Val Sears.