Micheline Charest (16 March 1953 – 14 April 2004) was a British-born Canadian television producer and founder and former co-chairman of CINAR (later Cookie Jar Entertainment).
As a production company, CINAR was also involved in the work of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Madeline, Wimzie's House,The Adventures of Paddington Bear, Space Cases, Zoboomafoo, Caillou, and Arthur.
The company had become known for quality, non-violent children's programs broadcast in more than 150 countries and was one of the founding partners in the Canadian television channel Teletoon.
The success of Charest, Weinberg, and CINAR ended in March 2000, when an internal audit revealed that about $122 million (US) was invested into Bahamian bank accounts without the boardmembers' approval.
Jacques Ramsay, the coroner, criticized delays and imprecision in the medical notes and said, "In my opinion, the alarm on the oxygen saturometer was not on.
"[7] A few months later, following an investigation by the syndic of the Collège des médecins du Québec, the anesthesiologist, Maurice Trahan, resigned.