From a media release:

Welcome to YOUR MORNING: CTV’s New Morning Show to Premiere this Summer

• Trusted news veteran Anne-Marie Mediwake (CBC TORONTO NEWS) and ETALK anchor Ben Mulroney announced as Hosts, along with Co-Anchors Melissa Grelo (THE SOCIAL), Lindsey Deluce (CP24 BREAKFAST), and Kelsey McEwen (CTV MORNING LIVE) –

CTV reaffirmed its commitment to original daytime television with the announcement today of a new, daily, morning program. From Bell Media In-House Productions, the live, three-hour program YOUR MORNING will premiere at the end of the summer. The network also confirmed that trusted news veteran Anne-Marie Mediwake (CBC TORONTO NEWS) and entertainment journalist Ben Mulroney (ETALK) will host the series.

YOUR MORNING is a new approach to morning television. The series will deliver an original perspective and unique insight into the stories of the day, while showcasing lifestyle topics of interests to Canadians from coast-to-coast-to-coast. News on the program will be delivered by CTV News, Canada’s most-watched news organization.

YOUR MORNING will air weekday mornings on CTV (Ontario, Québec, and Eastern Canada) and nationally on CTV News Channel from 6-9 a.m., kicking off CTV’s leading original daytime lineup.

To be broadcast from Bell Media’s downtown broadcast centre at 299 Queen St. West in Toronto, the series comes from the same production team as the top two Canadian daytime series, THE MARILYN DENIS SHOW and THE SOCIAL, and will be helmed by the same executive producer, Michelle Crespi. With a Masters in Journalism from Western University, Crespi returns to her roots in morning television, after starting her career on CANADA AM.

Joining hosts Mediwake and Mulroney on YOUR MORNING are dynamic co-anchors Melissa Grelo (THE SOCIAL) as Late Morning Anchor, Lindsey Deluce (CP24 BREAKFAST) as News Anchor, and Kelsey McEwen (CTV MORNING LIVE CALGARY) as Weather Anchor.

CTV will introduce a member of the YOUR MORNING team every day this week on THE SOCIAL, as they guest host in celebration of the new series.

In addition to their roles on YOUR MORNING, Mulroney will continue as anchor of ETALK, while Grelo will continue as co-host on THE SOCIAL. Deluce and McEwen will continue their current roles with CP24 and CTV MORNING LIVE CALGARY respectively through the end of June.

Meet YOUR MORNING Personalities:

Anne-Marie Mediwake, Host (@AnneMarieYYZ)
Anne-Marie Mediwake is an accomplished journalist who brings almost two decades of news and current affairs experience back home to CTV where she began her network career as the host of the Gemini Award-winning investigative program 21C, and reporter for CTV National News. Previously, the six-time Canadian Screen Award (CSA) nominee was the highly respected co-anchor of CBC TORONTO NEWS and GLOBAL NEWS TORONTO. During her expansive career, the Alberta-raised Mediwake has provided award winning coverage of some of Canada and the world’s biggest news stories, including the 2014 Ottawa Terror Attacks and the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing. Smart and compassionate, the multi-faceted journalist has co-anchored the last six municipal, provincial, and federal elections, reported from London during the Royal Wedding and Queen’s Jubilee, and hosted a documentary from her native Sri Lanka on the 2004 South Asian Tsunami. A mother of triplets, she is a passionate advocate for women and children’s issues, which saw her named Toronto Woman of the Year 2011.

Ben Mulroney, Host (@BenMulroney)
With a history degree from Duke University and a law degree from Laval University, Ben Mulroney is a veteran journalist with more than 16 years of experience at Bell Media. No stranger to live television, Mulroney got his start on talktv’s THE CHATROOM in 2000, and for six seasons, hosted CANADIAN IDOL, at the time the most-watched English language Canadian television show on record. Canada’s premiere entertainment journalist, Mulroney is now in his 14th year with ETALK, a series he has helped develop into Canada’s most-watched entertainment newsmagazine. As Anchor, Mulroney delivers entertainment news daily from the ETALK studio in Toronto, but also travels across the globe to interview the world’s biggest stars. He is a veteran of the industry’s biggest red carpet events, including the OSCARS®, GOLDEN GLOBES®, and THE JUNO AWARDS. Mulroney has also appeared on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, guest hosted LIVE! WITH KELLY, and was a member of the broadcast team for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Mulroney works closely with a number of charitable organizations including The Brain Project and Cystic Fibrosis Canada. He is most proud of his family: his wife Jessica and his twin boys and young daughter.

Melissa Grelo, Late Morning Anchor (@melissagrelo)
Smart, opinionated, and informed, Melissa Grelo is co-host of THE SOCIAL, and also acts as the show’s moderator. Previously, Grelo was the long-time co-host of the most-watched morning news program in the Greater Toronto Area, CP24 BREAKFAST, and has anchored and reported on the biggest stories in Canada’s largest news market. The mother of an adventurous young daughter, she is active in the community, specifically with the GTA’s youth, and is the Celebrity Ambassador in Canada for The Prince of Wales’s Campaign for Wool.

Lindsey Deluce, News Anchor (@LindseyDeluce)
Lindsey Deluce is currently the News Anchor for CP24 BREAKFAST. She joined CP24 in June 2009, as a Remote Host and Anchor. Deluce has demonstrated her keen ability to get the story. She covered the Federal Election 2011 live from Michael Ignatieff’s campaign headquarters, captured the mayhem of the G20 protests on the streets of Toronto in 2010, and got the dirt on the City of Toronto garbage strike in 2009. A volunteer with several events in the community and a mother of two young children, she has also hosted charity events throughout the year including The Walk So Kids Can Talk.

Kelsey McEwen, Weather Anchor (@KelseyMcEwen)
Currently the Meteorologist on CTV MORNING LIVE and CTV NEWS AT NOON in Calgary, Kelsey McEwen’s weather career began as a young girl in Alberta, where she would watch thunderstorms with her parents on the front step of their Calgary home. Since her career in journalism began, Kelsey has covered avalanche control in the Kootenay Pass in British Columbia, the 2011 and 2013 floods in Saskatchewan, the record breaking #skstorm tornado season in 2012, and the June 2013 floods in her home province of Alberta. An active volunteer in her community and mother of a young son, McEwen is passionate about science education, and proud to be part of the SkyWatch ‘Weather in the Classroom’ program with CTV.

From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:

Will CTV’s new morning show be ‘Canada AM: The Next Generation’?
t’s always a wrench when a long-running series or a favourite TV star says goodbye. Viewers who grew up with David Letterman still miss him a year after his 33-year late night stint ended. Michael Strahan caused a kerfuffle last month after bolting from “Live with Kelly & Michael” after just four years. When “The Simpsons” finally go, two or three generations of fans will have a cow. Continue reading.

From Victoria Ahearn of the Globe and Mail:

Tears, hugs and smiles as Canada AM hosts say goodbye
There were some farewell tears but for the most part, the hosts of “Canada AM” kept the mood upbeat and by-the-book on Friday as the venerable show aired for the last time. A day after the unexpected announcement that CTV would be abruptly cancelling the show after 43 seasons, co-hosts Beverly Thomson, Marci Ien and Jeff Hutcheson greeted viewers with smiles and only briefly acknowledged the show’s fate before getting straight into the day’s headlines. Continue reading.

From a media release:

KIDS’ CBC GREENLIGHTS SNAPSHOTS A NEW UNSCRIPTED SERIES FOCUSING ON PHOTOGRAPHY

• Casting open for school-aged kids from across Canada

Kids’ CBC has greenlit SNAPSHOTS (6×30), an unscripted live-action series from FORTÉ Entertainment and Headtrip Films. Co-created by executive producers Andrea Gabourie and Mitch Gabourie, SNAPSHOTS is an interactive, hosted competition series and website that engages school-aged children in a competition that uses photography to tell their own stories and share their vision of the world around them.

In each episode, three kids go head-to-head in a series of picture snapping challenges designed to test their creativity, ingenuity and passion. Their best photos will be displayed publicly for photography experts to judge. The companion website cbc.ca/kidscbc2/ will allow children from across Canada to compete in a digital spin-off competition based on challenges from the show.

SNAPSHOTS begins filming in June 2016 and will be broadcast in September 2016.SNAPSHOTS was developed with the assistance of the CMF and The Bell Fund and is a recipient of the Shaw Rocket Fund.

FORTÉ and Headtrip have also just inked a deal with Warner Brothers International to option the format rights to the SNAPSHOTS series in New Zealand.

From a media release:

CTV’s CANADA AM To Mark Final Sign-Off, Tomorrow, June 3

– Co-hosts Beverly Thomson and Marci Ien move to new roles at Bell Media as Jeff Hutcheson begins retirement –
CTV announced today that after 43 seasons, CANADA AM will deliver its final headlines and interviews when its last episode airs tomorrow, Friday, June 3 from 6 – 9 a.m. ET. Since 1972, Canadians from across the country have awakened to the national morning show, with its blend of hard news and lifestyle stories, as well as in-depth interviews with top newsmakers, celebrities, and musical stars.
Bell Media also confirmed today that long time co-hosts Beverly Thomson and Marci Ien will remain with the company. Thomson moves to CTV News Channel while Ien will develop new projects with Bell Media In-House Productions. Jeff Hutcheson announced his retirement earlier this month.CTV will announce a new program for the 6-9 a.m. timeslot next week. A simulcast of live CTV News Channel programming will air in the timeslot on CTV beginning Monday, June 6.

“As the television landscape continues to evolve, so too must our programming. We look forward to building upon the success of CANADA AM as we move forward,” said Randy Lennox, President, Entertainment Production and Broadcasting, Bell Media. “We invite viewers and fans to join us as we say goodbye tomorrow and acknowledge the lasting legacy this series and its talent – both now and in the past – have had on Canada’s broadcasting industry.”

“Over the past four decades, millions of Canadians have started their mornings with CANADA AM,” said Nanci MacLean, Vice-President, Bell Media Production. “We say goodbye with great respect and with sincere appreciation to Bev, Marci, and Jeff, who have led CANADA AM with such class, warmth, and wit.”
“We are incredibly thankful to our viewers from coast-to-coast-to-coast who have been with us on this journey and a heartfelt part of our TV family all these years,” said Co-Hosts Beverly Thomson and Marci Ien, and Weather and Sports Anchor Jeff Hutcheson. “We are extremely proud of CANADA AM. It has been our privilege to be part of this historic Canadian series that brought us the opportunity to work with such an incredible team.”
In tribute to both the long-running program and their own participation on CANADA AM, tomorrow’s final episode is dedicated to Thomson, Ien, and Hutcheson. Viewers can expect to see studio and location highlights, and clips of the historic moments that CANADA AM has covered.
Online, the farewell dedication continues with commemorative CANADA AM photo timeline, and favourite CANADA AM memories on the CANADA AM Facebook page. Viewers can also take part by tweeting their favourite moments or tributes to @CTVCanadaAM.
CANADA AM has interviewed some of the most newsworthy individuals from within Canada and around the word over the past four decades. It has also aired live during some of the world’s biggest news stories through those years, bringing context to Canadians as they awoke to breaking news stories and began their day. CANADA AM has also played a huge part in building the Canadian star system, introducing viewers to the most celebrated actors and talented artists from all walks of entertainment and showcasing hundreds of performers as part of the AM Sound Stage series.
Since its debut in 1972, CANADA AM cultivated talent both behind the camera on in front – from Craig Oliver, the first producer of CANADA AM when it launched in 1972, to former hosts and anchors including: Dennis McIntosh (Co-Host 1972-1973); Carole Taylor (Co-Host 1972-1973); Percy Saltzman (Meteorologist 1972-1974, Canada’s “first” weatherman); Helen Hutchinson (Co-Host 1973-1979); Pierre Pascal (Co-Host 1974); Elaine Callei (Co-Host 1974); Norm Perry (Co-Host 1974-1990 – longest serving male co-host); Wally Macht (News, Weather & Sports Anchor, 1977-1987); Gail Scott (Co-Host 1978-1981); Sandie Rinaldo (News Anchor 1980-1985); Pamela Wallin (Co-Host 1981- 1984 and 1991-1992); Ann Rohmer (Features Reporter 1984-1986); Linda MacLennan (Co-Host 1985-1987); Tom Clark (News Anchor 1986-1987); Nancy Wilson (Co-Host 1987-1988); Terrilyn Joe (News Anchor 1987-1991); Dan Matheson (Sports Anchor 1987-1995 and Co-Host 1995-2001); Deborah McGregor (Co-Host 1989-1991); J.D. Roberts (Co-Host 1990-1992); Thalia Assuras (News Anchor 1992-1993); Keith Morrison, Co-Host 1992-1995); Rod Black (Sports Anchor 1993-1997 and Co-Host 2001-02); Wei Chen (News Anchor 1993-1998); Valerie Pringle (Co-Host 1993-2001); Rob Faulds (Sports Anchor 1996-1998); Leslie Jones (News Anchor 1998-2002); Lisa LaFlamme (Co-Host 2001-2003); Seamus O’Regan (Co-Host 2002-2011); Omar Sachedina, Mi-Jung Lee, and Rena Heer (Co-Hosts CANADA AM Extended Version, 2008); and of course, the program’s current Weather and Sports Anchor, Jeff Hutcheson (1998- 2016), Marci Ien, who became Co-Host in 2011 after acting as News Anchor (2003-2011), and Co-Host Beverly Thomson, who joined the program in 2003.