Wendy Mesley has retired from the CBC after 38 years. Mesley fronted many programs during her career, including Marketplace and as a backup anchor of The National.
Last year, she became embroiled in a controversy surrounding her use of the N-word on two separate occasions during editorial meetings in 2019 and again in 2020 while preparing for a segment of her program “The Weekly” that focused on anti-racism.
The allegations sparked an internal investigation that led CBC News to take disciplinary action against her.
Mesley later tweeted that she used the word “not as a slur,” but as a reference to what another journalist, who they were considering booking as a panelist on the show, had been called.
