Joel Johannesen is a politically conservative political analyst, writer and editor, focusing on U.S. and Canadian politics and culture, the media, and political tactics.
His ventures into politics began innocently enough in high school, when he became very active in the so-called “back room” of politics. He worked on many political election campaigns on the federal and provincial level, serving for a short time as a junior executive for one federal party’s constituency association, but mostly doing more mundane campaign work, learning the ropes, studying tactics, and networking.
Joel Johannesen with Pierre Trudeau, circa 1978. Yes, once a Liberal!
Today Johannesen operates a company which creates and manages several web site properties, mostly involved with politics.
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In around the year 2000, Johannesen founded a website which eventually became the once popular site ProudToBeCanadian.ca, which he also edited. ProudToBeCanadian, or “PTBC” as it was also known, was a politically conservative advocacy Web site, featuring several conservative or conservative-tolerant columnists, and a blog written by Johannesen himself. While Canadian-based and so named, it focused on both American and 
Canadian politics and culture.
PTBC was set aside pending a new direction when it he decided to concentrate more on an America-centric political endeavor. BoldColors.net became the new focus.
Both Bold Colors and the ProudToBeCanadian web sites’ columnist “teams”, members of which have all agreed to includes their name and writing at the sites, include several well-known political authors, media pundits, and columnists. One such example is the multiple
New York Times best-selling author Ann Coulter, whom Johannesen secured as a columnist in 2003, making PTBC the only Canadian journal hosting Coulter’s sometimes “controversial” syndicated column. Other columnists include or have included David Warren, Salim Mansur, Mike Adams, Doug Giles, Barbara Kay, John Stossel, Dennis Prager, Theo Caldwell, Michael Coren, Steven Milloy, and several other conservative-minded columnists over the years.
Johannesen is the founder and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of JoelTRON Corporation, a privately-owned Internet services company which owns and operates several Internet properties and Web sites.
A former stock broker and executive in the financial services industry, Johannesen studied at the University of Victoria. He lives in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with his wife Jo-Anne, a labor-relations executive representing employers.