Heather Hiscox is a Canadian news anchor who is the former host of CBC Morning Live with Heather Hiscox from 6 to 10 a.m. during weekdays on CBC News Network. She has also hosted CBC's former flagship morning television program CBC News: Morning which became part of CBC News Now when the network re-branded itself in 2009.
In June 2025, Hiscox announced that she will retire from the CBC in the fall, following a special edition of Morning Live in November on the occasion of her 20th anniversary hosting the show.Connie Thiessen, "CBC Morning Live host Heather Hiscox announces retirement". Broadcast Dialogue, June 4, 2025.
Biography Hiscox was born in Owen Sound, Ontario and grew up in a medical family. She graduated in 1986 from the University of Toronto, with a B.A. in French language and literature and from the University of Western Ontario in 1987 with a master's degree in journalism. She has previously worked for CFPL-TV, CBC Montreal, the Global Television Network, ASN and CHCH in Hamilton, Ontario, before returning to the CBC at the network level. She also co-hosted a morning show on 1290 CJBK in London, Ontario, with Steve Garrison from 1990 to 1991. From 1988 to 1989, she did a variety of radio shifts at London's Rock FM96 CFPL-FM including afternoon drive and evenings. She began her broadcasting career in her hometown of Owen Sound at radio station CFOS/CFPS. In 1997, she appeared on the CIQC AM 600 Montreal program Travel World as part of a feature headlined as "The Hidden Holiday Hide-away Haunts of Heather Hiscox".
Hiscox won the Miss Teen Canada pageant in 1981 when she was 16 years old. She is married to a heart surgeon, Martin Goldbach.
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External links CBC News Morning: Heather Hiscox, profile CBC News Now with Heather Hiscox, her titular program
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