Jennifer Burke, née Lo, also known as Jennifer Mather is a Gemini-award-winning

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television journalist, previously a national news anchor for CTV News Channel in Toronto. For years Burke was a reporter and anchor for television stations in

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,"Jennifer's home-and-away series"
canada.com, January 14, 2007. including weekend news anchor on

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, coanchor on

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and host of

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's '' Living Vancouver''. She also hosted ''The Jennifer Mather Show'' on

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, an afternoon radio call-in talk show focusing on news and politics. Her early radio career included the role of morning news anchor on ''The Bob Saye and Stirling Faux Show'' on

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. In April 2013, Burke moderated the leaders' debate in the 2013 provincial election in

. In April 2017, Burke once again moderated the leaders' debate in BC. She was married to

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executive Brian Burke and the couple have two daughters. She also served as one of the fill-in anchors for CTV Canada AM. On 15 August 2022, Burke refused to read a statement about the firing of fellow CTV anchor Lisa LaFlamme.

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