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You'd never believe it when you hear her warm, cheerful voice very early in the morning, but it takes four - count 'em, four! - alarm clocks to get night owl Jill Dempsey up and rolling in time for her job as newsreader on Metro Morning.
Even so, she's worked on the show - with a few breaks - since 1991.
Jill got her start at Toronto's City-TV, working behind the scenes as a writer and producer. She came to CBC in June 1989, anchoring Calgary's late night news. After two months she was tapped as a backup host for Newsworld, a relationship she maintained for six years after she returned to Toronto. More...
Robert Fisher is a nationally recognized, award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 30 years of experience in public and private radio.
Robert was a Senior News Anchor and Political Affairs Specialist for the Global Television Network. Prior to that, he worked for 10 years with CBC Television, reporting on national, political and municipal politics.
In addition to his current roles as daytime news reader and news reader on CBC Radio One's Here & Now (Toronto), he is a regular contributor to TVO's weekly political program, Fourth Reading and a political analyst for CBC Radio programs in Windsor, Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
Connie Sinclair is the news anchor on CBC Radio One 99.1 FM on Saturday and Sunday mornings. She started with CBC National radio news in March 2007 and joined CBC Toronto radio news in September 2009.
She has worked as a newscaster for Fresh Air, hosted World Report, World This Hour, World at Six, World This Weekend and As It Happens. She has also contributed to national radio news as the hourly afternoon newsreader and has filled in on all the major news shows since March 2007.
Connie is the granddaughter of Gordon Sinclair, who was a panelist of CBC Television's Front Page Challenge for many years.
Kimberly Gale is the news anchor on CBC Radio One 99.1 FM on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. She has been reporting and anchoring for CBC Toronto since 2009. She's lived and worked on two other continents - teaching English in Fukushima, Japan and reporting and anchoring for radio in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Kimberly got her start in journalism in private radio in Toronto at Newstalk 1010. She's also worked as a writer with Global News Toronto and as a media training aid with the Canadian Armed Forces. Kimberly graduated from Ryerson University's broadcast journalism program. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Toronto, where she conducted a year-long independent study on punk rock culture.
Jean Carter is the Senior Assignment Producer for CBC Toronto. Her areas of interest involve bringing to air the voices of the real individuals and communities who are affected by policies of all levels of government.
Jean covers a wide variety of issues ranging from housing to immigration to urban poverty.
She has reported from Ottawa, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nunavut.
Jean has won several awards and she is listed in Who's Who in Black Canada.
Mike Crawley is the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News tv and radio, based at Queen's Park. He can be reached via Twitter: @CBCQueensPark.
Mike's been a journalist since 1991. He worked for newspapers, TV and a wire service before joining CBC Radio. He spent six years covering Africa. He was a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor newspaper and the German News Agency dpa, and reported from 17 countries stretching from Senegal to Somalia.
Mike has lived in five Canadian provinces and also lived in Kenya, Ghana, France and the UK. He has a science degree from McGill University and a journalism degree from the University of Western Ontario.
Philip Lee-Shanok is an award-winning journalist who has worked in newsrooms in Toronto and Edmonton as a both a print and on-air television reporter.
He joined CBC Radio in 2004 and covers a wide range of stories from crime and justice to technology and the environment.
He has done extensive coverage of aboriginal issues including the standoffs at Caledonia and near Deseronto, Ontario. He graduated from Trinity College, University of Toronto and has a post-graduate degree from Ryerson University's School of Journalism.
Lorenda Reddekopp loves meeting people, hearing their stories and then being able to tell them on radio and tv.
Lorenda has worked for the CBC in cities across the country - Saskatoon, Whitehorse, Regina and Toronto.
She also worked as a freelance journalist in Guatemala for three years. Lorenda filed news stories and radio documentaries to various public broadcasters around the world, including the CBC. There, she toughened up for any conditions she might experience as a reporter in Canada's largest city. On her way to one story, for example, she trudged through mud for more than an hour. That was to cover the aftermath of a hurricane in Guatemala. Her experience in Central America also made her more creative, as she sought out quiet places to voice her radio stories in a country where walls are thin and the street dogs never stop barking.
Lorenda speaks Spanish. She has an Arts degree with a major in English from the University of Saskatchewan and a journalism degree from the University of Regina.
Priya Sankaran is a news reporter based in Toronto. Since 2003 Priya has worked in newsrooms in Windsor and Ottawa. But truth be told, she's proud to call herself a Torontonian today. Her journey to the city tells the story of so many residents of the GTA.
Priya was born in Hamburg, Germany to Indian parents. She grew up in Ottawa where she got her first taste of reporting, filing a segment to CBC Television's Streetcents about a potato powering a digital clock. Priya came to call Toronto home after attending Ryerson University's Radio and Television arts program. She's taken a keen interest in telling the stories of the GTA's diverse communities.
Priya broke the story of Doda, an opiate drug truck drivers in the GTA's Indo-Canadian community were struggling to quit. In 2009 she told the stories of the region's Tamil community protesting against the civil war in Sri Lanka. Priya speaks English, French, Tamil.
Jasmin Seputis grew up in Toronto, the child of immigrants from Lithuania and Austria. But she began her career working for the CBC in Newfoundland and Labrador. Jasmin has been reporting in Toronto since 1999.
She often reports on legal stories and social issues for CBC Toronto. The stories she's covered include the G20 protests and their aftermath.
Jasmin was recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists for her investigative report into what happened outside a downtown hospital when security guards allegedly beat an Aboriginal couple.
Jamie Strashin is reporter with CBC Radio in Toronto. He's been a journalist for nearly ten years and, as a lifelong resident of the city, is happy to be home.
Jamie has been in the Toronto newsroom for five years and before that spent time in Brandon, Winnipeg and Calgary. During that time he has extensively covered virtually all of the city's big crime stories including the Jane Creba murder trials. He has also had a chance to cover some interesting sporting events like the Brier and Grey Cup. He current assignment has him at Toronto City Hall.
He graduated from the University of Western Ontario and has a Masters degree from Northwestern in Chicago.