Carole MacNeil

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Carole MacNeil (born 2nd February 1964 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia) is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

She is currently co-host with Evan Solomon of CBC News: Sunday, a two-hour long weekly magazine program focusing on politics, ethics and spirituality. As of September 2004, MacNeil and Solomon have also been co-hosting CBC News: Sunday Night, an hour-long prime time news broadcast on CBC Television and CBC Newsworld.

Before that, MacNeil was the co-host of Sunday Report, the nightly Sunday national newscast. She and Diana Swain hosted the program on a rotational basis.

In 2000, MacNeil helped launch Canada Now, the supperhour news program on CBC Television. She served as the Toronto anchor and made the fledgling program a ratings winner in its debut year. Prior to that, she anchored CBC Newsworld Sunday, a weekly interview-based national and international news magazine and read news updates for CBC Newsworld, Canada's 24-hour cable news channel.

She was also previously an anchor for the Windsor Evening News on Windsor's CBET in the mid-1990s.

MacNeil is currently dating CBC executive Richard Stursberg.