[2] After graduating from high school in 1991, Batra joined the Primary Reserves of the Canadian Armed Forces where she obtained the officer rank of Lieutenant.
After obtaining university degrees in political science and public administration she joined the Regina office of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation as a researcher,[1] eventually becoming its Manitoba director.
[4] She subsequently joined the mayor's office, serving as Ford's press secretary for a year until she resigned in December 2011 to become the Toronto Sun's Comment Editor.
[3] In November 2013, she joined the Sun News Network as host of Straight Talk, an afternoon news and comment program, and took a leave of absence from her position as a Sun comment editor, though continuing as a columnist, in order to work for the network full-time until the channel went off the air in February 2015.
[10] In response, the Toronto Sun issued an apology on behalf of Adrienne Batra, acknowledging that the cartoon did not meet their editorial standards.