CBC's Heather Hiscox to sign off after 20 years hosting national morning news

Heather Hiscox volition accidental bully greeting to loyal CBC News viewers for the past clip this fall, arsenic she steps distant from the anchor table aft 20 years arsenic big of CBC Morning Live connected CBC News Network. 

The seasoned broadcaster, who announced her status connected Wednesday morning at CBC's 2025-26 play preview, says revealing her determination to determination connected comes with a "torrent of emotion" but besides "deep, abiding gratitude" for having a level to person a speech with Canadians each morning. 

"I'm precise arrogant of what we person created arsenic a greeting team. Above all, I'm everlastingly indebted to Canadians, my faithful viewers. Their enactment has sustained me. Earning and keeping their spot has been my astir rewarding achievement," she said. 

Hiscox's last broadcast volition beryllium Nov. 6, precisely 20 years since her archetypal greeting broadcast connected what was past known arsenic CBC Newsworld.

It volition beryllium a unrecorded assemblage lawsuit astatine the CBC Broadcasting Centre successful downtown Toronto. 

But earlier that, Canadians volition person the accidental to link with Hiscox successful idiosyncratic arsenic she takes CBC Morning Live connected the roadworthy this autumn to stock their stories from crossed the country. 

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"What a acquisition it volition beryllium capable to accidental goodbye and convey you successful person, in fall," she said. 

CBC enforcement vice-president Barb Williams says she "can't deliberation of a amended mode to honour her legacy" than to person Hiscox "bring CBC's nationalist lens to section communities." 

Set 'incredible standard'

Coming retired connected to the signifier astatine the preview event, Williams shared a hug with Hiscox and praised her arsenic "one of a kind."

"Heather, we person been truthful fortunate to person you up aboriginal each greeting with us, making definite we got our time going. We beryllium connected you," she said. "You truly are present for Canada." 

Hiscox volition beryllium missed "immensely," said Andree Lau, the elder manager of integer publishing and streaming astatine CBC News. 

But she said she's some "happy and sad" astir Hiscox's big news.

"Happy for Heather and her idiosyncratic determination aft truthful galore years of waking up successful the wee hours," Lau said successful an email. "And, of course, bittersweet to nary longer person her endowment and expertise astatine CBC News."

"She brings an unthinkable standard, enactment ethic and knowing of however the scope of quality engages with our audience, that lifts each those astir her and has made each of america astatine CBC News better," Lau said.

The close clip to determination on

Hiscox says she feels that she's leaving connected apical with what she and the CBC Morning Live squad person achieved.  

"It's amended to permission the enactment 10 minutes excessively early, than 1 infinitesimal excessively late," she told CBC News, borrowing a punctuation from her person and TVO writer Steve Paikin. 

Hiscox says she has been contemplating her 43-year career successful media, and what lies up for her, for immoderate time.

"I turned 60 successful November, and that has a mode of sharpening the focus," she told CBC newsman Makda Ghebreslassie. 

"You look to the aboriginal and you think: who bash you want to walk clip with, what bash you privation to walk clip doing, what caller and breathtaking mightiness yet beryllium retired there." 

But she says the item reel of her vocation is excessively agelong to azygous retired immoderate idiosyncratic standout moments.

"I'm precise arrogant of the regular victories, the daily small victories due to the fact that we commencement acheronian and early, arsenic we ever say, and we make from these gathering blocks a newscast that is arsenic adjacent to fantabulous arsenic we tin marque it each azygous day," Hiscox said. 

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Hiscox says she "has religion that determination volition beryllium a caller adventure" aft she retires, but she doesn't person a acceptable program for what comes next. 

She is, however, looking guardant to much slumber aft 20 years of waking up astatine 2:30 a.m. 

Sharing successful the stories she tells Canadians

Aside from helping Canadians commencement their mornings, delivering them unrecorded and breaking quality for the archetypal 4 hours of each time from Monday to Friday, Hiscox has brought Canadians stories that touched their hearts and guided them done moments of turmoil. 

She shared successful the nationalist heartbreak and mourning for the victims of the 2018 Humboldt Broncos autobus clang and helped radical marque consciousness of tragic events similar the Quebec City mosque attack. 

She joined successful the excitement of the 2024 full star eclipse, the pomp and ceremonial of the royal weddings of Prince William and Prince Harry and the ceremonial for Queen Elizabeth. 

And she has been a fixture successful CBC's Olympic Games coverage, bringing the assemblage on to a full of 10 Summer and Winter Games — from Turin successful 2006 to Paris successful 2024 — telling stories that spell beyond the podium. 

But the Hiscox you spot connected your surface is what you get disconnected camera, says Lau. 

"Compassionate, generous, comic and astute arsenic hell," she said. "Any clip I get the privilege to ticker Heather from the power country is simply a favourite infinitesimal for me, due to the fact that that's erstwhile you get a close-up of a existent maestro astatine work."

Received coronation medal past month

Hiscox got her commencement successful broadcasting successful 1982, astatine her hometown vigor presumption successful Owen Sound, Ont. 

She made the leap to tv successful 1991, moving successful southwestern Ontario, Toronto, Halifax and Montreal earlier becoming a analogous for CBC's The National and moving successful overseas bureaus successful Washington, D.C,. and London. 

She won the champion nationalist quality anchor grant astatine the Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) successful 2018 and CBC Morning Live claimed the CSA for champion greeting amusement successful 2023.

Hiscox received the King Charles III Coronation Medal past period for her contributions to Canada, a designation she said made her "thrilled beyond words to receive."