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Valerie Pringle
Journalist and Broadcaster

Valerie graduated from Radio and TelevisionArts at Ryerson in 1974.

She hosted daily news and current affairs programs on CFRB Radio then on CBC-TV's MIDDAY and finally CTV's Canada AM from 1980 to 2001.

Since becoming a freelance broadcaster she has produced and/or hosted many series and documentaries including Valerie Pringle Has Left the Building, The Canadian Antiques Roadshow, Test of Faith, Rude: Where are your Manners?, After the Fall and Kilimanjaro: The Meaning of the Mountain for Discovery Channel,CTV, CBC and Vision TV.

She has been nominated for 7 Gemini Awards.

Valerie is very involved in a number of not for profit organizations. She is Chair of the Board of the Trans Canada Trail, a member of the Foundation Boards for The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Women's College Hospital and the Board ofthe Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation and the Ryerson Alumni Association. She is also the spokesperson for the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research.

Valerie was selected as one of the Fifty Famous Faces of Fifty Years of Television by the Banff Television Foundation and is an inaugural winner of Ryersons Alumni Award of Distinction.
She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2006.

Valerie is married and has 3 children and 2 dogs.