Cynthia Mulligan

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Cynthia Mulligan (born 22 November 1973) [1] is a Canadian television presenter on CITY-TV's CityNews. [2]

She was born on 22 November 1973, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Mulligan studied English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. [2] She started at Citytv in the CityPulse library. Before moving over to CityNews, she was a news writer for Breakfast Television . Mulligan has also been an ENG cameraperson and a videographer. [2] She added the duties of anchoring CP24 in January 1998 until 2008 when CTVglobemedia acquired the channel.[ citation needed ]

As of 2025 Mulligan works as a reporter on CityNews at Five and CityNews at Six (weekdays) focusing on politics. [3] She had been an education specialist/reporter in the 2008-2010 period. [2] Her work was nominated for a Gemini Award for best local reporting. [4] She won two Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards: for her coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, and in 2017 for her series on Transgender Surgery in Bangkok. [3] She also won The Edward R Murrow award for her 2010-2011 series "Kicking Cancer", a first-person account of what it is like to suddenly be diagnosed with cancer and the lengthy emotional process of treatment. [3]

Mulligan has two daughters. [1] In April 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. [5] She announced the diagnosis publicly in May 2010, and later reported on and blogged about her experiences of treatment. [5] [6] In 2018, she made an impact statement in court against ex-boyfriend Mike Bullard after he pleaded guilty to making harassing phone calls. [7]

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. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cynthia Mulligan, Front Seat to the World". Beaches Life Magazine. No. June/July 2011. Toronto. Archived from the original on 23 November 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "CityNews - Toronto's News - Personalities". CityNews . Toronto: Citytv. Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 "About Cynthia Mullingan". CityNews. Toronto: Citytv. Archived from the original on 29 August 2025. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "CityNews Gets 3 Gemini Nominations". CityNews. Toronto: Citytv. 31 August 2010. Archived from the original on 24 December 2010.
  5. 1 2 Tobin, Anne-Marie (8 June 2010). "Battling cancer in the public eye: reporter, actor tell their stories". Toronto Star. The Canadian Press. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012.
  6. ↑ "Statistics confirm cancer is now the leading cause of death for Canadians -". 680News. 19 May 2010. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  7. ↑ Syed, Fatima (8 June 2018). "Mike Bullard pleads guilty to harassing phone calls to ex-girlfriend". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  8. ↑ LeBlanc, Erin (29 June 2021). "CityNews' Cynthia Mulligan reveals her renewed battle with breast cancer". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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