Jacqueline Milczarek was a

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for CTV News Channel broadcasting on weekend afternoons. She started working for

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in 2007. Before she joined CTV News, Milczarek was a reporter and

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anchor to

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's First National with

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. She has earned two

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Awards for coverage of Pope John Paul's visit to Canada during the

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in 2002 as well as for a story about a man who recovered from a coma. Milczarek graduated from

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. Milczarek created some controversy for her comments during a debate about " ethical oil" and using the Athabasca oil sands over

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's oil. When discussing CTV's refusing to air an ad by Ethical Oil Institute (an oil sands advocacy group) describing

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; Milczarek asked "Are we really more ethical than the Saudis?" Milczarek later

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she was referring to Canada supporting the

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, although it was questioned if she was forced to make these comments based on CTV's parent company, Bell Canada, large volume of work building the Saudi's telephone infrastructure. CTV and Bell laid her off in 2014. She no longer works at CTV News but as a reporter and host of CPAC- than cable political Canadian news network

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