Jacquie Perrin (born c. 1949) is a
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
. She was host of the
CBC's ''
Saturday Report ''Saturday Report'' (officially titled ''CBC News: Saturday Report'' from 2001 to 2009) was the primary Saturday newscast aired on CBC Television and CBC Newsworld from 1982 to 2009. Jacquie Perrin was the program's most recent regular anchor, alth ...
'' and is current host of the Sunday 5:00 p.m. edition of
CBC News: Today on
CBC Newsworld
CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. As Canada's first all-news channel, it is th ...
. Her broadcast career began at
CKWS radio in
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal). The city is midway between Toro ...
where she hosted a daily TV
talk show
A talk show (or chat show in British English) is a television programming or radio programming genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show ...
. She also put her
geography
Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...
degree
Degree may refer to:
As a unit of measurement
* Degree (angle), a unit of angle measurement
** Degree of geographical latitude
** Degree of geographical longitude
* Degree symbol (°), a notation used in science, engineering, and mathematics
...
from
York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...
to good use as the local
weather reporter. Jacquie was selected
Miss Dominion of Canada
Miss Dominion of Canada was a beauty pageant held in Niagara Falls, Ontario for many years, primarily at the Sheraton Brock Hotel, on July 1, Canada's Dominion Day (now known as " Canada Day"), beginning in 1959. The winner of this pageant repr ...
in 1969 and represented Canada at the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and
Queen of the Pacific
''Queen of the Pacific'' is a name or nickname of ships and places associated with the Pacific Ocean, the largest of Earth's oceans.
Ships
* In 1852, at the height of the age of the fast clipper sailing ships, the clipper ''Queen of the Pacif ...
pageants. She is also an accomplished pilot.
External links
Jacquie Perrin profile at CBC.caarchived from the original on November 9, 2012
1940s births
Canadian aviators
Canadian beauty pageant winners
Canadian women aviators
Canadian radio personalities
Canadian television meteorologists
Canadian television news anchors
Canadian women television journalists
CBC Television people
Journalists from Toronto
Living people
Miss International 1970 delegates
Miss Universe 1969 contestants
Miss World 1969 delegates
York University alumni
20th-century Canadian journalists
21st-century Canadian journalists
20th-century Canadian women
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