Wendy Mesley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Wendy Mesley

Canadian television journalist

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1957

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Wendy Mesley

  • Wendy Mesley (born 1957) is a Canadian television journalist, reporter, and host of The Weekly with Wendy Mesley, a Sunday morning talkshow about media, politics, and technology which airs Sundays on CBC Television and CBC News Network. Wendy Mesley hosted CBC Television's consumer investigation series Marketplace, and is also a frequent back-up anchor for CBC's flagship evening news program The National.
  • She co-hosts Test the Nation with Brent Bambury.
  • In 2001 and 2002 she co-hosted the investigative newsmagazine CBC News: Disclosure with Diana Swain, and previously hosted the media and technology series Undercurrents from 1995 until 2001.Mesley was born in Montreal, Quebec.
  • On January 6, 1989, Mesley married CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge, but the marriage ended in 1992.
  • She remarried on April 17, 1998 to marketing executive Liam McQuade and has one daughter with him, Kate Rae McQuade.In January 2005, Mesley announced that she had found a lump in her left breast and had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
  • After undergoing treatment, including two lumpectomies, chemotherapy and radiation, Mesley returned to the CBC full-time in March 2006, but was under the care of an oncologist and had been taking the intravenous, anti-cancer drug Herceptin.
  • That same month her documentary "Chasing the Cancer Answer" was aired, and generally well received. Since October 26, 2009, Mesley has had a greater presence on CBC's nightly newscast The National, and in 2010 she became the program's regular Sunday anchor.On January 14, 2018 Mesley started hosting a new Sunday morning talk show on politics and media: The Weekly with Wendy Mesley.

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