{"id":9814,"date":"2026-05-14T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:12:00","slug":"beloved-tv-star-dies-of-cancer-aged-just-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/?p=9814","title":{"rendered":"Beloved TV star dies of cancer aged just 61"},"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>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. Read more below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-392.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-392.png 526w, https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-392-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-392-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9816,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}