Thomson, best known for her high-profile interviews with politicians and celebrities,

died on Sunday morning surrounded by her family

after a long battle with cancer, CTV News reported. She was 61.

Thomson joined CTV News Toronto as a reporter,

where she most recently worked as a CTV News

Channel anchor after working on-air for the network’s morning show Canada AM. Continues…

She also worked as a news anchor for Global News from 1997 to 2003.

Last October, Thomson

was awarded the lifetime achievement award by

the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada.
When presented the award, then-RTDNA Canada president

Lis Travers called Thomson “one of Canada’s

most respected news personalities.”

Her career spanned over 30 years and

included coverage of the 2016 U.S.

presidential election and featured interviews with Celine Dion,

Shania Twain, Donald Trump

and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Richard Gray, vice-president

of news at Bell Media, said Thomson was

a “trusted voice and a valued teammate to all of us at CTV News” in a statement on Sunday.