Wei Chen is a

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and radio

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. Born in Taiwan, she started her career with stations in London and

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. She has worked for the

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before moving to ''

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'', the morning show at the

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. She was also an anchor on CTV News Channel and a correspondent for the network's newsmagazine series '' W5'', receiving

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nominations in 2000 and 2002 for her work with ''W5''. In 2003, Chen left CTV to work for independent station

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as anchor of its daytime news program ''Toronto Today''. The program was cancelled after only eight months on the air, and Chen was reassigned as a reporter for the primetime magazine program ''Toronto Tonight'' until that program was also cancelled in 2005. She then joined

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and worked at TV stations in

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and

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until January 2007, when she became the new host of

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's ''

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'', the network's local morning show for non-metropolitan markets in

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, until 2022. She lives in Toronto with her husband Michael Pollard and daughter (Jensen), who she adopted in 2003.

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