Sheldon Turcott (1936 – February 18, 2000) was a Canadian television journalist and news anchor, best known as a reporter and host on

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for four decades. He was a frequent contributor to '' The National'', working at times as a newsreader, foreign correspondent, and executive producer of the program. From 1985 until his retirement in 1995 he was the regular newsreader on CBC's ''

Midday Noon (or midday) is 12 o'clock in the daytime. It is written as 12 noon, 12:00 m. (for meridiem, literally 12:00 noon), 12 p.m. (for post meridiem, literally "after noon"), 12 pm, or 12:00 (using a 24-hour clock) or 1200 (military time). Solar ...

'' program.

Greg Quill Gregory Raymond Quill (18 April 19475 May 2013) was an Australian-born musician, singer-songwriter and journalist. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and was an entertainment columnist at the ''Toronto Star'' newspaper from the mid-1980s unt ...

, "Midday news show CBC's tool to grab noontime viewers". ''

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'', January 6, 1985. For a brief period prior to that, Turcott commuted to Regina each week to anchor CBKT's 6pm newscast, an effort to boost the station's nearly non-existent ratings. He was also host of the quiz series '' TimeChase'', and appeared in the feature film ''

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''.

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* 1936 births 2000 deaths Canadian television news anchors 20th-century Canadian journalists {{canada-journalist-stub