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''The West Block'' is a
Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
news and political affairs television series that debuted on November 6, 2011 on the
Global Television Network The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after C ...
."CTV’s Question Period to face competition"
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'', September 9, 2011. The name of the program is taken from the West Block of
Parliament Hill Parliament Hill (french: Colline du Parlement, colloquially known as The Hill, is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its Gothic revival suite of buildings, and their archit ...
. The series follows a Sunday morning talk show format. The series was hosted by Tom Clark from 2011 until his retirement from journalism in 2016, and then by
Vassy Kapelos Vassiliki Kapelos (; born May 6, 1981) is a Canadian political journalist, currently serving as the chief political correspondent for CTV News. She formerly was the host of ''Power & Politics'' on CBC News Network from 2018 to 2022. She formerly ...
in 2017 and 2018 until she left the network to become host of
CBC News Network CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. As Canada's first all-news channel, it is th ...
's ''
Power & Politics ''Power & Politics'' is a Canadian television news program focused on national politics, which airs live daily on CBC News Network from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Time weekdays and as a syndicated podcast. The program normally originates from the ...
''. On June 25, 2018 Mercedes Stephenson, previously the host of '' Power Play'' on CTV News Channel, was named Global's Ottawa bureau chief and host of ''The West Block''."Mercedes Stephenson joins Global News as Ottawa bureau chief, host of ‘The West Block’"
Global News Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Canadian Global Television Network. The network is owned by Corus Entertainment, which oversees all of the network's national news programming as well as local news on its 21 owned-an ...
, June 25, 2018. '' Global Sunday'', a previous Sunday public affairs show from Global, aired from 2001 to 2005.


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