Wei Chen is a

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and radio

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. Born in Taiwan, she started her career with stations in London and Hamilton. She has worked for the

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before moving to ''

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'', the morning show at the CTV Television Network. She was also an anchor on CTV News Channel and a correspondent for the network's newsmagazine series '' W5'', receiving Gemini Award nominations in 2000 and 2002 for her work with ''W5''. In 2003, Chen left CTV to work for independent station

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as anchor of its daytime news program ''Toronto Today''. The program was cancelled after only eight months on the air, and Chen was reassigned as a reporter for the primetime magazine program ''Toronto Tonight'' until that program was also cancelled in 2005. She then joined CBC Television and worked at TV stations in Calgary, Ottawa and

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until January 2007, when she became the new host of

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's ''

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'', the network's local morning show for non-metropolitan markets in

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, until 2022. She lives in Toronto with her husband Michael Pollard and daughter (Jensen), who she adopted in 2003.

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