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Lisa LaFlamme

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Lisa LaFlamme, OC , OOnt , journalist, broadcaster (born 1964 in Kitchener, ON). Lisa LaFlamme is known for her long and distinguished career as a high-profile television journalist. She was the first woman to host CTV National News , a role she held — as chief news anchor and senior editor — for over a decade. She was named Best National News Anchor at the Canadian Screen Awards five times. Her abrupt termination from CTV, announced in August 2022, was met with broad public outrage. She has been appointed to the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario .

Early Life and Education

Lisa LaFlamme grew up in Kitchener , Ontario , the third of four daughters born to David and Kathleen LaFlamme. David was a Franco-Ontarian from Kitchener who worked as a building contractor; Kathleen was a British immigrant . After graduating from St. Mary’s High School, Lisa worked as an au pair in France for two years, where she perfected her French . She then returned to Canada and enrolled in university .

LaFlamme graduated from the University of Ottawa with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Communications in 1988. She then took a job as a summer “fill-in” in the joint newsroom of Kitchener’s CKCO-TV, CKKW-AM and CFCA-FM. She handled a wide variety of newsroom tasks, including writing the television newscasts and preparing and anchoring radio newscasts.

Early Career

LaFlamme’s career began in earnest after impressing CKCO’s news director with her work ethic; she was offered a position as a regular part-time reporter on television and radio. She was promoted to a full-time position in the news department in 1991. In 1994, she became a co-host of CKCO’s evening and nightly newscasts.

Career Highlights

In 1997, LaFlamme sent audition tapes of her work to CTV , which was launching a new 24-hour specialty news channel, CTV Newsnet. She was hired after a lengthy process involving many candidates. LaFlamme quickly made a name for herself and became CTV Newsnet’s primary anchor in 1998. Two years later, she was promoted to become CTV’s parliamentary reporter. She was promoted again the following year to become co-anchor of the network’s flagship morning show, Canada AM . Within two years, she was named national affairs correspondent for CTV’s prime-time news program, CTV National News . During this time, she travelled extensively to cover major world events, including the death of Pope John Paul II, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.

In 2011, LaFlamme replaced long-time CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson as full-time anchor at CTV News. LaFlamme then became chief anchor and senior editor of the CTV National News . During her tenure in this role, LaFlamme continued reporting from abroad and covering major news events, including the aftermath of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, the death of Fidel Castro in 2016 and the centennial of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 2017. She also covered the papal conclave that led to the election of Pope Francis, Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and the papal visit to Canada in 2022. LaFlamme also provided extensive coverage of Canada’s involvement in the War in Afghanistan and of numerous federal elections.

Did you know? Lloyd Robertson enthusiastically supported having a woman, and LaFlamme specifically, as his successor. When she was announced as his replacement, he said, “Guys like me have sat in the chair for too long,” and “There aren’t enough words to express how much I admire her.”

Termination and Controversy

On 15 August 2022, LaFlamme announced on social media that she had been let go from her position at CTV . She described feeling “blindsided” by the move. At the time of her dismissal, the CTV National News had been the top-ranked national news broadcast in Canada for many years. She was told it was a “business decision” by the network’s parent company, Bell Media.

Immediate public outrage at the decision followed. Many observers noted that other long-serving anchors of major network newscasts, such as Lloyd Robertson (who retired at age 77) and Peter Mansbridge (who retired at 69), had left on their own terms with great fanfare. LaFlamme, 58 at the time, was told not to speak of her dismissal for nearly two months.

According to reports, LaFlamme may have been let go to cut costs amid the network’s shift to digital content. Subsequent reporting said that Michael Melling, vice-president of news at Bell Media, had clashed with LaFlamme as she disagreed with some of his directives. There were also suggestions that ageism and sexism were behind the move. Most notably, the Globe and Mail revealed that Melling had previously questioned LaFlamme’s decision to let her hair “go grey” during the COVID-19 pandemic . In response, Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. issued a statement that Michael Melling had gone on leave and that “Lisa’s age, gender or grey hair” did not factor into the decision to end her contract.

In addition to the furor within Canada — which included a full-page advertisement placed in the Globe and Mail by a group of prominent Canadians protesting LaFlamme’s dismissal – her departure, and the alleged circumstances behind it, also received international coverage in many major media outlets, including CNN and the Guardian .

Career After CTV

Roughly a month after she announced her dismissal from CTV, LaFlamme was hired to cover the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as a special correspondent for CityNews (which is owned by Bell’s rival, Rogers Communications ). “It is truly an honour to be able to reflect on the legacy of this remarkable woman who I’ve admired my entire life,” LaFlamme said at the time.

Volunteer Work

Lisa LaFlamme has supported numerous charitable organizations throughout her career. In 2013, she travelled with Journalists for Human Rights to help mentor and train journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo. LaFlamme is an ambassador for PLAN International, which works to combat child poverty around the globe. She has also volunteered with Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. It seeks to improve the quality of life for Afghani women and their families, chiefly through education.

Awards and Honours

Lisa LaFlamme has been recognized as a trailblazer for women in Canadian journalism . In 2014, Maclean’s named her one of the 50 most important people in Canada. She has received several honorary degrees, including from her alma mater, the University of Ottawa . The university also granted her the Meritas-Tabaret Award for Alumni Achievement and the Distinguished Canadian Award. She has also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Wilfrid Laurier University . In 2018, she delivered the convocation speech at the University of Windsor and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

LaFlamme won the Canadian Screen Award for Best National News Anchor five times (2014, 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2022). She also won the Bert Canning Award for Best Newscast, issued by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, five years in a row (2012–16).

In 2016, LaFlamme was appointed to the Order of Ontario , both for her contributions as a journalist and for her advocacy and charity work. LaFlamme was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019, for her contributions to journalism and her commitment to human rights .

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After Going Gray, a News Anchor Found Herself the Focus of the Story

Lisa LaFlamme was dismissed after a decades-long TV career, not long after she stopped dyeing her hair, setting off debates across Canada about sexism, ageism and going gray.

By Norimitsu Onishi

TORONTO — Lisa LaFlamme had barely settled in at the back of the cafe when two women approached her in quick succession. You’re so beautiful, said the first, while the other slipped Ms. LaFlamme a note on yellow-lined paper.

“Thank you for being ‘you,’” read the message written in neat cursive by “an admirer.”

The fleeting interactions, which took place during a recent interview in Toronto with Ms. LaFlamme, 58, were laden with the unspoken. Perhaps little else needed to be said among three similarly aged women meeting by chance in Toronto, half a year after Ms. LaFlamme was ousted as one of the nation’s top news anchors amid charges of ageism and sexism.

“People are so amazingly kind,” said Ms. LaFlamme, her eyes welling up. “The support has been mind-blowing. It’s really been a shock to me.”

A household name in Canada for decades, Ms. LaFlamme was unceremoniously dismissed last summer by CTV, the country’s largest private television network, after what her employer described as a “business decision” to take the program “ in a different direction .” Though her national newscast at CTV had been one of the most watched and she had won a national award for best news anchor just months earlier, Ms. LaFlamme was left to sign off without a proper farewell.

Instead, in a poorly lit, two-minute, makeshift video uploaded on her Twitter account, she said, “At 58, I still thought I’d have a lot more time to tell more of the stories that impact our daily lives.”

Her departure set off multifaceted debates across Canada, especially after The Globe and Mail newspaper reported it may have been linked to Ms. LaFlamme’s hair — which she had chosen to let go gray during the pandemic when hair salons and other businesses shut down. The network’s owner, Bell Media, which denied that “ age, gender and gray hair ” had been factors, named a 39-year-old male correspondent, Omar Sachedina, as her successor.

“It was a complete surprise when they decided to terminate her contract early because there was no obvious evidence that CTV was in particular decline or was actually doing poorly,” said Christopher Waddell , a professor emeritus of journalism at Carleton University and a former news producer at CBC, the public broadcaster. He added that Ms. LaFlamme’s 11-year tenure as anchor of “CTV National News,” the broadcaster’s flagship newscast, had been considered a ratings success, especially compared with its main rival at CBC.

CTV’s owner did not return several emails and calls requesting comment for this article. Ms. LaFlamme declined to give details about her dismissal, citing a mutual separation agreement.

In the immediate wake of the controversy over her ouster, Mirko Bibic, the chief executive of Bell Canada, issued a statement that said, in part, “the narrative has been that Lisa’s age, gender or grey hair played into the decision. I am satisfied that this is not the case.”

During a nearly two-hour interview, Ms. LaFlamme spoke about emerging from half a year of silence, displaying a journalist’s understanding and resignation that her departure would overshadow, for the time being, a long career highlighted by reporting in New York a day after the Sept. 11 attacks and many trips to Afghanistan and Iraq.

“The most comments I ever received were not for months in Baghdad or Afghanistan, or any story, but when I let my hair grow gray — bar none,” Ms. LaFlamme said. “And I will say this, 98 percent positive, except a couple of men and a woman — it’s funny that I can actually remember that — but they were summarily destroyed on social media because women do support women.”

Ms. LaFlamme said she has yet to map out her professional life for the years ahead. But her calendar is filling up with longstanding commitments to help other women, including a public talk for Dress for Success , a private organization providing free professional clothing to women. Ms. LaFlamme was also planning a weekslong trip to Tunisia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to make short documentaries on African women journalists for Journalists for Human Rights , a Toronto-based organization.

She shares a home in Toronto with her husband, Michael Cooke, a former editor in chief of The Toronto Star, but regularly visits her hometown, Kitchener, Ontario, a small city 60 miles southwest of Toronto, where her mother and sisters still live.

Growing up there, she attended an all-girls Roman Catholic school and used to go home for lunch, with her three sisters and parents, “news junkies” both.

“My father was a contractor and would come home every day at lunch, and I’m in grade school, and the conversation was about the morning talk shows and the topic of discussions,” Ms. LaFlamme said. “And, of course, the last 15 minutes of lunch was Fred Flintstone.”

Hungry to discover the world outside Kitchener, she jumped at an offer through her school to work as a nanny for two years in France. Unable to make any French friends at the time, she said the experience helps her understand the alienation felt by some immigrants to Canada — “not to get to meet someone in the country you’re living in.”

After college in Ottawa, Ms. LaFlamme earned a part-time job at the CTV affiliate in her hometown after waiting six hours — without an appointment — outside the news director’s office.

She keeps “vivid memories of not being taken seriously” as a female reporter — walking past an office inside which three senior managers were “watching and laughing at one of her stories.” Or the time a male colleague commented about a navy blue dress she had picked out carefully during a trip to Paris: “How is anybody going to take you seriously in that?” she remembered him telling her.

“Just a classic navy blue suit, the skirt went below the knee, nothing, nothing, nothing sexy whatsoever,” Ms. LaFlamme said. “I’d wanted a navy blue suit because I thought it equaled professionalism.”

In the newsroom in the 1990s, she recalled, pictures of scantily clad women ripped from the local tabloid paper were put up on the walls of the edit suite.

Over the years, she received letters from two male colleagues apologizing for the way they had treated her, she said.

“I don’t know if they were going through the 12-step program or what,” she said.

Her career took off rapidly after she joined the CTV network in 1997 and was soon on a shortlist of potential successors to Lloyd Robertson, CTV’s top anchor for 35 years until his retirement in 2011 at age 77, when Ms. LaFlamme replaced him.

The National Post, a national daily, had handicapped Ms. LaFlamme’s chances back in 2001 by commenting she was “known for looking better in person than on TV.” A veteran television news executive recalled in an article in The Toronto Star that he had once tried to hire Ms. LaFlamme, but was overruled by his boss who “ didn’t like her hair .”

A decade into her successful tenure as CTV’s top anchor, Ms. LaFlamme faced a predicament in the first wave of the pandemic in 2020 when hair salons closed. She had been dyeing her prematurely graying hair since her 20s. She took Nice ‘n Easy over-the-counter dye with her on reporting trips — coloring her hair in the women’s toilets at Kandahar Airfield and in a Baghdad bunker where brown water came out of a spigot jutting out of a wall.

At the start of the pandemic, Ms. LaFlamme hid the gray with spray dye.

“There was hair dye on my pillowcases — and I also had menopause and had night sweats — and the pillowcases were disgusting,” Ms. LaFlamme said.

She said she started letting her hair go gray during the pandemic’s second wave, inspired by an older sister who had done the same and a female boss who endorsed the decision.

The reaction, she said, was overwhelmingly positive. In a year-end roundup program , she joked, “Honestly, if I had known that the lockdown could be so liberating on that front I would have done it a lot sooner.”

But the decision was criticized by the head of CTV News at the time, who, according to The Globe and Mail , asked in a meeting who had approved the decision to “let Lisa’s hair go gray.” Ms. LaFlamme also disagreed sharply with her boss over news coverage and resources, according to The Globe.

As the interview wound down, Ms. LaFlamme, checking her phone, frowned at the havoc her new chocolate Lab puppy had wreaked in her living room — a chewed up jute rug. She needed to take care of the dog and to prepare for her talk for Dress for Success in two days.

“It’s an organization that really helps women get back into the work force, and for years I donated suits to the organization,” she said. “Isn’t that funny?”

Norimitsu Onishi is a foreign correspondent on the International desk, covering Canada from Montreal. He previously served as a correspondent in the Paris bureau, and as bureau chief for The Times in Johannesburg, Jakarta, Tokyo and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. More about Norimitsu Onishi

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Lisa LaFlamme OC OOnt (born July 25, 1964) is a Canadian television journalist, and formerly the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National News . She replaced Lloyd Robertson in this role on September 5, 2011. [1] LaFlamme previously served as the news international affairs correspondent and substitute host for CTV National News . In August 2022, CTV announced it was ending her contract, due to a "business decision" to take the programme in a "different direction", ultimately replacing her with Omar Sachedina . [2] LaFlamme spoke out publicly regarding her dismissal, and went viral on social media when she claimed she was "blindsided" by the decision. [3]

Following her departure from CTV, Rogers Media announced on September 9, 2022 that it had hired LaFlamme as a special correspondent to cover the death and funeral of Elizabeth II for CityNews . [4] She also covered the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla for CityNews in May 2023. [5]

Lisa LaFlamme (1964-)

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Born on July 25th 1964 in Kitchener Ontario, Lisa La Flamme gained her early education at St. Mary’s high school in that city. After completing high school, she spent eighteen months in France, before enrolling at The University of Ottawa.

On graduation, in the summer of 1988 she began what was to be a high-profile career in broadcasting when she was hired into the Kitchener CKCO-TV CKKW-AM & CFCA-FM newsroom as a summer ‘fill-in’, helping with script preparation for TV newscasts and preparing and announcing radio newscasts to cover off vacationing staff.

As the summer ended, News Director Ron Johnstone had been so impressed with Lis’s work that he offered her a regular part-time job as a reporter for both the TV and radio stations. This led to a full-time appointment to the News department in 1991, and then in October 1994 she was appointed as Monday-Friday news co-anchor for CKCO-TV’s 6 pm and 11:30 pm newscasts.

Lisa’s on-air work came to the attention of the Network, and in 1997 she was invited to join CTV, where she first worked as a reporter and anchor for the CTV Newsnet Channel. She also did consumer reports for CTV News, before becoming the prime news anchor for CTV Newsnet in 1998.   She occupied this role for two years, and then in 2000  became Parliamentary correspondent for CTV News.

In 2001 Lisa took on another important role, this time as co-anchor of CTV’s Canada AM  daily morning show.  Then, after two years of early rising, in 2003 Lisa became National Affairs Correspondent for CTV National News, and over the next seven years she was most of the time on the road travelling to some of the world’s most dangerous locations to cover everything from wars to elections to natural disasters. She was in Rome to report on the death of Pope John Paul II;  reported from Sri Lanka on the devastation from the Tsunami that hit South Asia; was in New Orleans to cover the impact Hurricane Katrina had on New Orleans; and journeyed to Haiti several times to cover the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake and political turmoil gripping the country.

Such was the strength of her performance and on-air presence in this role that it was no surprise when in 2010 she was appointed as the successor to Lloyd Robertson as full-time anchor of CTV National News, and then in 2011 as Chief Anchor and Senior Editor for CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme.

Not one to stay stuck behind a desk, in her new role Lisa continued to bring Canadians an up-close look at the biggest stories unfolding across Canada and around the world. In May 2018, LaFlamme travelled to Windsor to lead CTV News’ live special of the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. In 2017, she reported from the devastated flood regions of Texas and Florida, and travelled to northern France to lead CTV News’ special coverage of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Led by LaFlamme, CTV News delivered live coverage of the inauguration of Donald Trump from Washington D.C. in January 2017; reported on the death of Fidel Castro from Havana in November 2016; and broadcast live from Paris in November 2015 in the aftermath of the coordinated terrorist attacks across the city.

In addition to multiple awards for broadcasting and journalism over her career, Lisa LaFlamme has received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater University of Ottawa, and honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont. and from the University of Windsor. She is the recipient of the Order of Ontario and was awarded the Distinguished Canadian Award from the University of Ottawa. On June 27, 2019, LaFlamme was named an Officer of the Order of Canada (O.C.), one of Canada’s highest honours.

A passionate advocate of democracy in journalism, LaFlamme volunteers for Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and has traveled with the organization to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013 to mentor and train young journalists in Goma, in the heart of the conflict zone. LaFlamme also championed a program with CTV News to identify eligible and deserving staff journalists to participate in JHR missions around the world, and serves as honorary co-chair of the annual JHR Night for Rights event. 

LaFlamme is also an ambassador of PLAN International, traveling to remote areas to promote child rights and to end poverty around the world, and volunteers with Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, which works to advance education and educational opportunities for Afghan women and their families.

LaFlamme, Lisa

As Chief Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV NEWS WITH LISA LAFLAMME since 2011, Lisa LaFlamme leads the country’s number one newscast. An accomplished journalist, LaFlamme quickly cemented her role as the face of news in Canada, winning highest honours at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards, with recognition for both Best National News Anchor and Best National Newscast. In addition, since becoming an anchor, LaFlamme has won the prestigious Radio-Television News Directors Association Bert Cannings Award for Best Newscast for two consecutive years.

LaFlamme has led Canadians through some of the world’s biggest news stories in recent history, delivering the newscast from Sochi leading up to the 2014 Winter Games, delivering live coverage from Johannesburg for Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in December 2013, and broadcasting live from Vatican City during the historic Papal Conclave and election of Pope Francis in March 2013. She has covered every angle of the aftermath of 9/11- from New York to Afghanistan, Iraq to Guantanamo Bay. Over the years, LaFlamme has reported extensively on the Canadian mission in Afghanistan as well as the humanitarian crisis facing the Afghan people. LaFlamme is a trailblazer for women in Canadian news broadcasting, covering some of the biggest stories of the times.

A graduate of the University of Ottawa, LaFlamme began her broadcasting career in 1989 in her hometown of Kitchener-Waterloo at CTV Kitchener. She has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and has won the Meritas-Tabaret Award for Alumni Achievement from the University of Ottawa.

A passionate advocate of democracy in journalism, in 2013 LaFlamme traveled to the Congo with Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) to mentor and train young journalists. She is also an ambassador for PLAN International, traveling to remote areas to highlight child poverty around the world.

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CTV News' Chief Anchor Lisa LaFlamme named to the Order of Canada

CTV News’ Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme has been named Officer of the Order of Canada for her contributions to journalism and support of human rights.

The appointment, announced Thursday, is one of Canada’s highest honours.

“Lisa is a trailblazer for women in Canadian news broadcasting, and has continually demonstrated excellence in her work while tirelessly advocating for democracy in journalism and human rights in Canada and abroad,” CTV News President Wendy Freeman said. “We are thrilled to see Lisa recognized for her outstanding achievements and contributions to journalism.”

Bell Media President Randy Lennox also congratulated LaFlamme “on this tremendous honour.”

“Lisa is a true leader within our news division and the company as a whole, serving Canadians with professionalism and integrity while passionately working to help change lives through international humanitarian organizations,” he said. 

LaFlamme has been covering major news stories from across Canada and around the world for more than 30 years with CTV. In 2011, she was named the Chief Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News.

When she’s not in the anchor chair, LaFlamme volunteers with Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and has travelled with the organization to the Democratic Republic of Congo to mentor and train young journalists. She has championed a program that allows eligible CTV News staff journalists to participate in JHR missions around the world.

LaFlamme is also an ambassador of PLAN International, travelling to remote areas to promote child rights, and she volunteers with Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, which works to advance education and educational opportunities for Afghan women and their families.

LaFlamme is among 83 Canadians who were named to the Order of Canada Thursday by Gov.-Gen. Julie Payette.

The list includes former National Hockey League player Reggie Leach, one-time Montreal Expo Claude Raymond, former commissioner of Nunavut Edna Elias and chef Michael Smith.

CTV News Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme

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CityNews hires Lisa LaFlamme as special correspondent

Recently ousted ctv chief anchor will be in london covering queen elizabeth's death and legacy.

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CityNews has hired veteran news anchor Lisa LaFlamme as a special correspondent to lead its coverage of the death and legacy of Queen Elizabeth.

LaFlamme herself made headlines across the country last month when she was fired as chief news anchor for  CTV National News . The move prompted widespread speculation about whether she had been fired for political reasons or had been a victim of ageism in the workplace.

CTV said the decision to end LaFlamme's contract was due to "changing viewer habits." Bell Media, which owns CTV, later said it regretted how LaFlamme's departure was handled, and that it would initiate a third-party independent workplace review of its newsroom.

LaFlamme's new employer, CityNews, said she will travel to London to provide daily television and radio reporting on the legacy of Queen Elizabeth and the transition to the reign of King Charles, and will lead live coverage of the Queen's funeral.

"The Queen is the only monarch most of us have ever known. We grew up with Her Majesty and mourn the passing of this remarkable and inspiring woman," said LaFlamme in a statement released by CityNews.

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"As this second Elizabethan era comes to an end, I can only say how truly honoured I am to help tell the story of her life and the legacy she leaves."

Rogers Sports and Media, the parent company of CityNews, said LaFlamme's reporting will be made available on all of its platforms.

"News coverage of such a pivotal moment in history is integral to achieving our mission of keeping Canadians connected and informed, and Lisa LaFlamme's incredible talent and wealth of experience are befitting of an event of this magnitude," said Rogers president Colette Watson.

Could be 'really great' for CityNews 

Initial reaction to LaFlamme's arrival has been positive among those in and outside of Rogers, says Connie Thiessen, the editor of  Broadcast Dialogue , an industry trade publication focused on Canadian broadcast media.

"This could be a really great thing for the network," she said, but added this is a one-time special correspondence event. 

"As far as what the relationship with LaFlamme is going to look like in the future, that's to be determined."   

A Rogers spokesperson confirmed to CBC News that, for now, this is a one-time, temporary assignment for LaFlamme.

"The focus right now is on our commemorative coverage plans and Lisa will lead that coverage for CityNews as a special correspondent just until after the funeral," they said in a statement. 

Thiessen says public interest in LaFlamme's departure from CTV News has been huge. 

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"We've had almost a full four weeks of headlines generated from that incident," she said. "I can't remember the last time that a story surrounding traditional television made headlines for that length of time."

"The whole handling of this from a public relations perspective is a cautionary tale from all of the other networks in how they handle the very challenging transition from a traditional television focused audience to a digital and on demand product."

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A popular, award-winning TV news anchor is fired. Was it the hair?

For years, until her unceremonious firing this week, Lisa LaFlamme was a fixture in living rooms across Canada.

The abrupt dismissal of one of the country’s most prominent television journalists — she has led Canada’s most watched nightly newscast since 2011, and this year won the Canadian Screen Award for best national news anchor— has drawn both a backlash and a national conversation about sexism and age discrimination in the media.

LaFlamme, who covered the biggest stories of her time, including elections, wars and natural disasters, posted a video to Twitter Monday announcing that she had been informed in late June that her career with CTV News was over after parent company Bell Media decided to end her contract. She had worked for the network for 35 years and had just under two years left on her contract, according to the Globe and Mail.

“I was blindsided and am still shocked and saddened by Bell Media’s decision,” LaFlamme said, adding that she had been asked to keep her firing confidential for weeks.

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“At 58, I still thought I’d have a lot more time to tell more of the stories that impact our daily lives,” she told followers. “While it is crushing to be leaving CTV National News in a manner that is not my choice, please know reporting to you has truly been the greatest honor of my life and I thank you for always being there.”

In a statement Monday, CTV said it had made a “business decision” to pursue a “different direction” for the chief news anchor role, citing “changing viewer habits.” The network announced the same day that national affairs correspondent Omar Sachedina, 39, would step into the role.

LaFlamme’s firing drew condemnation from viewers, colleagues in the media industry and prominent figures in Canada, including retired Grammy-winning singer Anne Murray .

The Canadian media have continuing to cover the fallout, with reports suggested various factors behind LaFlamme’s firing, including clashes between the anchor and CTV News head Michael Melling over resources for coverage of the war in Ukraine, among other issues.

But one avenue of speculation has touched a nerve among Canadian women left wondering: Was it the hair?

LaFlamme made headlines when she stopped dyeing her hair in 2020. During a special year-in-review broadcast, she told viewers that the pandemic had prevented her from visiting her hairstylist, and she was tired of spraying her roots each day before going on air, according to the Globe and Mail. “I finally said, ‘Why bother? I’m going gray,’ she said. “Honestly, if I had known the lockdown could be so liberating on that front I would have done it a lot sooner.”

The move resonated with Canadian women who have faced societal pressure to dye their hair. But it apparently ruffled the feathers of top CTV News executive Michael Melling, the Globe and Mail reported .

A senior CTV official told the newspaper that Melling had asked who had approved the decision to “let Lisa’s hair go gray” and later commented on the purple hue of LaFlamme’s locks under studio lighting.

Shortly after Michael Melling became head of CTV News, he raised questions about host Lisa LaFlamme’s hair. According to a senior CTV official who was present at the meeting, Mr. Melling asked who had approved the decision to “let Lisa’s hair go grey.” https://t.co/XQb9zb9N65 — Robyn Doolittle (@robyndoolittle) August 18, 2022

Canadian women took to Twitter this week to celebrate the former anchor for embracing her gray hair and owning her age.

“Lisa LaFlamme allowed herself to age on camera and in doing so gave me the confidence to shine in my natural beauty as I age,” one Twitter user, Sarah M, wrote on Monday, calling CTV News’ decision “a massive mistake.”

Others worried that LaFlamme’s firing would send a message to middle-aged women that they could face professional consequences if they opted for a more natural look.

Hey @CTVNews at the beginning of the pandemic I gave up being a bottled blonde and embraced the grey. I took inspiration from women like Lisa LaFlamme who we watched every day. We grew gray together. Women across Canada will remember the message you sent to us with her firing. pic.twitter.com/s6NQUAfvIB — Christine Cooper 💪🙋‍♀️🦹‍♀️ (@coopSpeak) August 18, 2022

Many suggested sexism and ageism had played a role in LaFlamme’s dismissal. Some media experts pointed out that her predecessor, Lloyd Robertson, retired from the chief anchor role at 77 and was given an on-air send off.

Bell Media did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

LaFlamme “has made an important contribution to Canadian television news over the past 35 years,” read a statement Bell Media posted to Twitter Monday, signed by company president Wade Oosterman and senior vice president Karine Moses. The company would initiate an independent, third-party “internal workplace review of our newsroom,” the statement continued.

LaFlamme’s dismissal led some to call for Melling’s ouster , and Canadian media reported that CTV News has been forced to do damage control with its own employees.

Moses said in an email to staff that LaFlamme was given the opportunity to say goodbye to viewers before she left the anchor’s chair, but that she had “opted not to say goodbye to the public,” Canadian broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported . The anchor shake-up was part of a shift toward digital content creation at the news outlet, Moses wrote.

The backlash to LaFlamme’s firing has sparked its own backlash. In right-wing circles, figures such as Maxime Bernier, head of the far-right People’s Party of Canada, seizing the moment to divert attention to the firing by Canadian companies of thousands of workers who declined coronavirus vaccines.

Some prominent media figures, meanwhile, lamented that the controversy around LaFlamme’s ouster obscured the significance of her replacement’s hiring. Sachedina, an award-winning reporter who has worked at CTV News since 2009, was born in Canada to parents of Indian descent from Uganda — an underrepresented background in Canadian media.

“A Muslim man helming the biggest National news program — history,” Global News journalist Ahmar Khan t weeted . “But, diversity doesn’t cover the gaps of mistreatment.”

Sammy Westfall and Amanda Coletta contributed to this report.

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Lisa Laflamme is a successful anchor. She has done great work during her career. She has interviewed massively popular people like Boris Johnson who is the mayor of London, Conrad Black, and Sarah who is the Duchess of York. She has won five nominations for Gemini Award for best anchor category. And in 1999, she managed to bag Galaxi Award from the Canadian Cable Television Association.

She is five feet and four inches tall. She oozes charm. She’s got the personality of an anchor. She does her job all the justice. Her anchoring skills and her talent of binding viewers to Television screen has earned her many appreciators. She is a Television personality and thus it becomes essential to look good on screen. Thus, she makes every effort to remain in shape. She works out and eats healthy. She’s conscious about her food intakes. Over the years, she’s maintained her bodily shape and her work outs have resulted in toned figure and legs. She has the great sense of style. She always keeps herself groomed. She wears clothes that are age appropriate and bring out the best in her. She looks great in formals. She knows the exact way to flaunt her best assets. Her hair and makeup are also neatly done. She is aware of the cameras around her and their power to magnify any flaw. Thus, Lisa always tries to look her best. 

She is doing great in her career life. She is a professional and she is here to stay. She is already the age of forty nine and still going strong. She is the leading example of working independent and successful woman. Her salary is estimated to be somewhere around $300,000 to $350,000. She is all happy with her earnings. She has made a huge amount of wealth over the years. She earned it all by herself and she deserves all of it. However, her net worth is not revealed by any source in the internet websites.

She has achieved great heights in her career life. She is already in her late forties and leading a single life. But she does not look bothered about that fact. She has not married anyone and thus does not bear any husband. It’s obvious that she has never been through divorce either. She is the classic example of today’s working and independent woman. No wonder, many people look up to her. She’s an inspiration to the new generation. She has break the myth that woman can’t make it to the top alone. She loves her work and that’s what she intends to do further. She is happily single. She does not need a man to complete her life for now. Lisa does not have any children in her life.

She has a twitter account. She is found regularly updating her tweets. Her fans can follow her there and remain up close with her. Her biography is traced in details in Wikipedia. 

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Lisa Laflamme is a popular writer and television correspondent based in Canada. She currently serves as the lead anchor and chief supervisor for CTV National News. The splendid host previously served as an international affairs columnist and fill-in anchor for CTV.

Top news has looked at every government policy decision in Canada starting in 1997 and the 2006 Olympics. The host also covered Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. After Robertson’s September 2011 breakout, he was elevated to sole presenter.

The exquisite lead anchor has garnered five Gemini Award selections for Best Newscaster, six respects from RTDNA, and a Galaxi Award from the Canadian Cable Television Association in 1999.

She was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for “Best National Newscast” and “Best News Anchor” by CTV National News in March 2014. The correspondent was selected for the Order of Ontario in 2016 and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.

Does Lisa Laflamme have an illness? Medical Problems and Illnesses Lisa Laflamme is in good health and works for CTV National News. There are stories that Lisa has experienced COVID.

Actually, she is not experiencing COCID. She recently recovered her stomach from a medical operation and experienced some negative effects. Therefore, she was on leave for quite some time due to her medical problem.

Be that as it may, the expert columnist is back at work. A couple of days earlier, she was with leader builder and journalist Rosa Hwang in Markakis, Alberta.

She was live on CTV, where Pope Francis met survivors of a private school on the site of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School. We can see author Rosa Hwang’s authoritative tweet on July 25, 2022. The 58-year-old writer enlisted at CTV National News as an unknown journalist and backup anchor for Lloyd Robertson in 2013.

She has been praised for covering difficult topics and occasions, such as the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the Arab Spring in Cairo, Hurricane Katrina, and more. Lisa Laflamme Husband Lisa Laflamme is currently unmarried and has no connections. The splendid columnist is gradually single.

Tonight @CTVNationalNews will be LIVE from Maskwacis, Alberta, where Pope Francis will meet with residential school survivors tomorrow at the site of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School. Here it is @LisaLaFlammeCTV Y @JillMacyshonCTV Getting ready for tonight’s news. pic.twitter.com/iqAwx2iyEE — Rose Hwang | 황지연 (@journorosa) July 25, 2022

The 58-year-old reporter is an example of a working and free avant-garde woman. No wonder she has a huge number of fans. She is a motivation for the group of people who are to come.

She has debunked the possibility that ladies cannot prevail alone. She reveres her work and plans to continue making it a reality. For now, she doesn’t need to bother with a person to end her reality.

Lisa LaFlamme Family Biography Lisa LaFlamme was born on July 25, 1964, in Kitchener, Canada, to her parents, Kathleen and David LaFlamme. She also has three familiar sisters that she hangs out with.

The senior proofreader studied at St. Mary’s High School for her optional training. After leaving high school, Laflamme enrolled in the University of Ottawa’s graduate program. She has been in the news coverage since her life when she was young.

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Lisa Laflamme Wiki, Bio, Age, Height, Instagram, Salary, Husband, Net Worth, Family 

Lisa Laflamme is a well-known Canadian television Journalist and News anchor. Lisa is a famous personality and everyone wants to know more about her. There are many people who are searching for Lisa Laflamme on the internet for her personal information. 

In this article, we have written everything about Lisa Laflamme’s personal information such as Biography, Age, Height, Nationality, Instagram, Family, Net worth, Salary, husband, and so on. 

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Lisa Laflamme Biography 

Lisa Laflamme was born in 1964, 25th of July on Saturday. She was born in a place called Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Lisa was born and raised there quite well with her family. 

Lisa Laflamme is a very kind person who helps those people who are in need of her help. She has done volunteer work for social causes. She has raised her voice for Human Rights. 

Lisa Laflamme has volunteered with Canadian Women for Afghanistan women for their work opportunities and advanced education for Afghan women and their families. 

Lisa is a well-respected figure and she is admired by many people. She has achieved many big achievements in her life. She received many awards for her work. 

Laflamme is a well-educated and talented person. She completed her studies in her own hometown. Lisa did her schooling in a Local Private School for her Basic education in her own hometown. 

Lisa Laflamme completed her high school studies at St. Mary’s High School. After that, she enrolled at the college University of Ottawa. She completed her graduation with great results as she was an outstanding student. 

She got her Honorary degree from the University of Windsor in 2018, the University of Ottawa in 2014, and Wilfrid Laurier University in 2006. There is very little information about her on the internet. 

Lisa Laflamme is a very private person who doesn’t like to share her personal life with anyone or on the internet. Keep reading with us to know more about Lisa Laflamme’s personal information. 

Lisa Laflamme Profile 

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Lisa Laflamme Nationality, Religion, Zodiac Sign, and Ethnicity 

Lisa LaFlamme belongs to Canadian Nationality. She belongs to the Roman Catholic family she believes in and follows the Catholic religion. 

Lisa’s zodiac sign element is Fire which is Leo. Her ethnicity is white. Keep reading with us to know more about Lisa LaFlamme’s personal information. 

Lisa Laflamme Age, Height, Weight, Body Measurement, and Appearance 

Lisa Laflamme Age is 58 years old. She has maintained herself quite well for her age, she has a fit and healthy Body. 

Her Height is around 5 feet 5 inches or 165 cm tall approx. She weighs around 62 kg approx. She has brown hair. 

She has a beautiful pair of dark Brown eyes colors. Unfortunately, there is no information about Lisa Laflamme’s Body Measurements and shoe size but we will update you as soon as we get the information. 

Lisa Laflamme Family and Siblings 

Lisa Laflamme was born into a very loving, caring, and supportive family. Lisa has a very supportive father who supported her throughout her adulthood. She was motivated by her father to fulfill her dreams. Her father’s name is David Laflamme. 

Lisa LaFlamme has a mother who has been very loving and caring Since her childhood. She has a very close bond with her mother. Her Mother’s name is Kathleen 

LaFlamme. Lisa Laflamme grew up alongside her siblings. 

Lisa is a very private person. She doesn’t like to share her personal life with anyone else or on Social Media. There is very little information about Lisa Laflamme on the internet. We don’t have much information about the Lisa Laflamme family. 

Lisa LaFlamme Relationship and Kids 

Lisa LaFlamme’s marriage status is not clear if she is married or single. Lisa does have many guy friends but none of them have been addressed as a husband. 

Lisa Laflamme is a private person and She hasn’t given any statement about her relationship with anyone. She has never been seen going out with anyone. 

We will update you if there is any information on Lisa LaFlamme’s relationship status. Unfortunately, we don’t have the information about Lisa LaFlamme’s past relationships but we will update you if we get the information. 

Lisa Laflamme Career 

Lisa Laflamme is a very hard-working television Journalist. She used to be the chief anchor and Senior editor of CTV National News. In 2022, Lisa was selected as a special correspondent to cover the death and funeral of Elizabeth ll for CityNews. 

Lisa started her career in 1989 as a copywriter and script assistant at CTVs Kitchener affiliate CKCO. In 1997 she started her career as an anchor.

Lisa Laflamme’s Net Worth 

Lisa Laflamme is a Canadian television Journalist who earns a Lot. Lisa Lives a humble lifestyle and doesn’t like to show off her luxury. She has earned quite a lot also from her Television Appearances. Lisa owns her personal residence and luxury cars and branded phones. 

After the Calculation, Lisa LaFlamme Net worth is estimated to be around 3 million dollars approx. 

Lisa Laflamme’s Social Media Presence 

Lisa Laflamme is quite active on her social media account. Lisa keeps her social media account updated and shares her personal moments with her followers and fans and also interacts with them. Lisa has a huge fan following on her social media account. 

Lisa Laflamme’s Instagram account is not active on her Instagram account. Lisa’s Instagram account does not have a blue tick Mark on it. She has 0 posts, 7,972 followers, and 11 followings. Her Instagram account is @lisalaflammectv . 

Lisa Laflamme is quite active on her Twitter account. Lisa’s Twitter account has a blue tick Mark on it. She joined Twitter in May 2009. She has 559 following and 153.8k followers. Her Twitter account is @LisaLaFlamme.

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