Vik Adhopia is a senior health reporter who reports from

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for

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. He attended

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. After graduating from the

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with an Honours

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and from

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with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in journalism, Adhopia joined the CBC in 1995 where he reported from

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. In 1997, he moved on to

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while continuing to work for the CBC. He worked as a reporter in Vancouver and, in 2006, Adhopia began working in St. John's as a CBC National Reporter. A report from

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about the

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won him a Jack Webster Award in 2001. In addition, he was awarded Radio and Television News Directors Association Awards in 2004 for his reports on flooding in British Columbia and in 2008 for his coverage of the Newfoundland Breast Cancer Scandal. In 2009, Adhopia was presented the

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award for faith and spirituality along with fellow CBC journalists including

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and Frank Koller for their work on CBC Radio'
Where is God Today?
Adhopia has filled in for the CBC bureau in

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and covered the

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in 2010. In 2015, Adhopia joined the Health Unit at CBC News in

where he reports on health-related news stories. In 2018, he was part of a months-long CBC News investigative series on the medical implant industry which found that devices pulled from the market internationally due to safety concerns continued to be implanted in Canadians, sometimes with unwanted consequences. The series, The Implant Files, produced in partnership with

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and the

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, under the auspices of the

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, earned a

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nomination in 2019.

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