[1] In his teens and early 20s, he hosted It's Up To You, a community channel program on Maclean-Hunter Cable Television about music.
He returned to Ottawa in 1987 as the bureau's news editor, then was recruited in 1989 to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a host on CBC Newsworld at its launch.
He returned to CP in 1991 as the Ottawa bureau chief and continued as a weekly CBC Newsworld host, holding both roles until 1995.
In 2023 he became its Executive Editor, then left the company briefly in late 2023 before returning as Glacier Media's columnist in March 2024.
[7] On election night following his defeat, LaPointe thought he might put politics "in the rearview mirror.
LaPointe has been an adjunct professor and executive-in-residence at the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism since 2004.