Margaret Evans is a Canadian journalist, currently working as a foreign correspondent for the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...

(CBC). The daughter of Art Evans, a journalist, and Una MacLean Evans, an

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city councillor, she was born in Edmonton and grew up there. She received a BA from the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

and a MA from City University London. During the 1990s, she worked as a freelance journalist based in Brussels covering the development of the European Union and the

Yugoslav Wars The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related#Naimark, Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and Insurgency, insurgencies that took place in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia from ...

. Based in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

from 2004, she was CBC's Middle East Bureau Chief from 2009 to 2011. She is now based in CBC's European Bureau in London and has reported from Iraq, Ukraine, South Africa and the Mediterranean. Evans received an Amnesty International Canada Media Award in 2007. With Derek Stoffel, she received a gold medal in 2013 at the New York Festivals Television and Film Awards and a

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Ron Laidlaw Award. She is a finalist for a 2015 Canadian Association of Journalists award.

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