Kate Wheeler is a Canadian broadcast journalist and former Network Managing Editor at

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Career

Wheeler began her on-air news career in 1987 at

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as a

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, where she would become an anchor the following year and the weekend news anchor in 1990. The next year she was promoted to co-anchor of CFTO's ''News at 6'' with Tom Gibney. Wheeler sat in for both Lloyd Robertson and Sandie Rinaldo on ''

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'' and also handled long term fill in duties for news and hosting on ''

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''. She served as senior reporter and daytime

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for CTV News Channel from February 2001 to November 2008 before moving to

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to launch the CBC affiliate in Durham. In 1985, she was featured in a five-part

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news serial ''The Kate Wheeler Story: Diary of a Victim'' which detailed her previous experience as the victim of a random

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attack. Until September 2013 Wheeler was the news director and anchor for ''Studio 12 News'' on CHEX Durham, which launched in September 2010. From February 2014 to June 2016 Wheeler co-hosted the show ''What She Said'' on

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channel, with

Christine Bentley Christine Bentley is Canadian journalist and former news anchor on Toronto, Ontario, Canada television station CTV Toronto. She was an employee of the CTV News since 1977. Career Christine Bentley began her career at CKVR-TV in Barrie. She then mo ...

and Sharon Caddy."SiriusXM Canada launches Canadian talk series What She Said". '' The Globe and Mail'', May 28, 2014. What She Said! with Kate Wheeler and Christine Bentley moved to the Jewel Radio Network (Evanov Radio Group) starting July 9, 2016 and in December, 2017 were brought on board @1059TheRegion. Wheeler is a part-time lecturer at

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. In January 2019 Wheeler became a Network Managing Editor at

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