Cynthia Mulligan (born in

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) is a Canadian television presenter on CITY-TV's City''News''. Mulligan studied English at

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. She started at Citytv in the City''Pulse'' library. Before moving over to ''CityNews'', she was a news writer for ''

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''. Mulligan has also been an ENG cameraperson and a videographer. She added the duties of anchoring CP24 in January 1998 until 2008 when

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acquired the channel. Mulligan currently works as a reporter on City''News'''' at Five'' and City''News at Six'' (weekdays) focusing on politics. She used to be an education specialist/reporter in the 2008-2010 period. Her work has been nominated for a

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for best local reporting. She has won two

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(RTDNA) awards: her first was for her coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris; her second was in 2017 for her series on Transgender Surgery in Bangkok. She also won The Edward R Murrow award for her 2010-2011 series "Kicking Cancer" which dealt with her battle with breast cancer. Mulligan has two daughters. In April 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She announced the diagnosis publicly in May 2010, and has since reported on and blogged about her experiences of treatment. In 2018, she made an impact statement in court against ex-boyfriend Mike Bullard after he pled guilty to making harassing phone calls. On 29 June 2021, Mulligan took to Twitter to announce that her cancer had returned. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer around Christmas, 2020.

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