Avery Haines

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Avery Haines (born ca. 1966 in New Mexico, United States)^[1] is a Canadian television journalist and host of Health On the Line, which airs on Life Network and Discovery Health Channel Canada.

On January 15, 2000, Haines, at the time a fill-in anchor for CTV Newsnet, made a mistake with a line while taping a report introduction. After regaining her composure, she joked:

I kind of like the little stuttering thing. It's like equal opportunity, right? We've got a stuttering newscaster. We've got the black, we've got the Asian, we've got the woman. I could be a lesbian, folk-dancing, black woman stutterer. What's that? In a wheelchair ... with a gimping, rubber legs. Yeah, really. I'd have a successful career, let me tell you.

However, the camera was still on. Haines retaped the segment, but later that day, a CTV technician mistakenly aired the tape which included the error and the comment.

On January 17, Haines was fired from CTV Newsnet after her comments sparked controversy. The unnamed technician was suspended. Haines was soon hired by Citytv Toronto, before taking her current position in fall 2001.

Prior to working for CTV, Haines was a reporter for CFRB in Toronto.

[edit] Family

She is the sister of Emily Haines, lead singer of the band Metric. Both Emily and Avery are daughters of the late Paul Haines, noted poet and librettist of Escalator over the Hill which was co-written with Carla Bley.

[edit] Awards

Her recent television programme Health On the Line won Gemini Awards in 2002 and 2005 for Best Talk Series.^[2]^[3] In 2005, she was personally nominated for a Gemini in a hosting/interviewer category.^[4]