Heather Hiscox (born 18 November 1965) is a

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who hosts '' CBC News Now'' from 6 to 10 a.m. on weekdays on CBC News Network. She was also the host of the CBC's former flagship morning television program '' CBC News: Morning'' which became part of ''CBC News Now'' when the network re-branded itself in 2009.

Biography

Hiscox was born in

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and grew up in a medical family. She graduated in 1986 from the

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, with a B.A. in French language and

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and from the

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in 1987 with a master's degree in journalism. She has previously worked for

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, CBC Montreal, the Global Television Network, ASN and CHCH in

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, before returning to the CBC at the network level. She also co-hosted a morning show on 1290 CJBK in

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with Steve Garrison from 1990–1991. In 1988–89 she did a variety of radio shifts at London's Rock FM96 CFPL-FM including afternoon drive and evenings. She began her broadcasting career in her hometown of Owen Sound at radio station

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/ CFPS. In 1997, she appeared on the CIQC AM 600 Montreal program ''Travel World'' as part of a feature headlined as "The Hidden Holiday Hide-away Haunts of Heather Hiscox". Hiscox won the Miss Teen Canada pageant in 1981 when she was 16 years old. She is married to a heart surgeon, Martin Goldbach.

References

External links

CBC News Morning: Heather Hiscox
profile
CBC News Now with Heather Hiscox
her titular program *
digitaljournal.com

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