{"id":87841,"date":"2026-02-17T01:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=87841"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:15:50","slug":"beloved-tv-star-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=87841","title":{"rendered":"Beloved TV star dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thomson, best known for her high-profile interviews with politicians and celebrities, died on Sunday morning surrounded by her family after a long battle with cancer, CTV News reported. She was 61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomson joined CTV News Toronto as a reporter, where she most recently worked as a CTV News Channel anchor after working on-air for the network\u2019s morning show Canada AM. She also worked as a news anchor for Global News from 1997 to 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last October, Thomson was awarded the lifetime achievement award by the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada.<br>When presented the award, then-RTDNA Canada president Lis Travers called Thomson \u201cone of Canada\u2019s most respected news personalities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her career spanned over 30 years and included coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and featured interviews with Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Donald Trump and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.<br>Richard Gray, vice-president of news at Bell Media, said Thomson was a \u201ctrusted voice and a valued teammate to all of us at CTV News\u201d in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=87830\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomson, best known for her high-profile interviews with politicians and celebrities, died on Sunday morning surrounded by her family after a long battle with cancer, CTV News&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87842,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87841\/revisions\/87842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}