Nancy Wood is a Canadian journalist with the

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(CBC), where she hosts

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's nightly newscast CBC Montreal News at 11. She is a 1985 graduate of

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. She began her career in 1985 as a staff reporter with the ''

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'' and went on to the ''

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'' and then to the Ottawa bureau of

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magazine, before moving to Montreal in 1994 to work for the CBC. In 1994, she joined CBC Radio, hosting

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's local programs '' Radio Noon'', Quebec's sole, English-language, province-wide radio talk show, in 1995. She became host of the CBC early morning show ''Daybreak'' in 2009. Later she worked on Radio-Canada's

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, where she investigated

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safety, the

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, and the

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. In 2006

journalist Mike Boone reported that Wood had turned down a journalism job in Toronto to remain in Montreal as the CBC National's Quebec reporter because she felt that remaining in one place was a more stable way to bring up her school-age children. Wood was hired as host of the popular

early morning Montreal program ''

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'' in 2009. Her dismissal in 2010 was the subject of some controversy in Montreal. In 2012 she became a news anchor on

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References

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