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Anita Bathe
Canadian television journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anita Bathe is a Canadian television journalist, best known as an anchor of CBC News Vancouver at Six on CBUT-DT in Vancouver, British Columbia from 2018 to 2024.[1]
A native of Abbotsford, British Columbia, she is a graduate of MEI and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.[1] She began her career as a community channel reporter for Shaw TV in the Vancouver area, later working for various commercial radio stations in the Vancouver and Victoria markets before joining the CBC as a reporter in 2016.[1] She became coanchor with Mike Killeen of the 6 p.m. news in 2018,[2] and continued as sole anchor of the program after Killeen retired in 2021.[3]
In 2022, she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Local News Anchor at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards.[4]
In March 2025, after being away from the anchor desk on maternity leave, she announced her retirement from the CBC to take another job outside of journalism.[5]
She is of South Asian background.[6]
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Awards
2022 - Canadian Screen Awards - Best local news anchor[7]
References
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