Christine Bentley
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Christine Bentley is a Canadian news anchor for CTV Toronto
CFTO-TV
CFTO-DT, broadcast on channel 9 and cable 8, is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, owned by Bell Media. Currently branded as CTV Toronto, it is the flagship station of the CTV Television Network, and was one of the charter members of the network when it was launched in 1961. It...

. She has been a part of the CTV
News family since 1977.

Bentley started as a general assignment reporter, soon assigned to City Hall and later Queen's Park. Her next career move took her behind the anchor desk, which she shares with Ken Shaw
Ken Shaw
Ken Shaw, O.Ont is a Canadian news anchor for CTV Toronto. He is the co-anchor for CTV News at 6:00 p.m since April 2001, alongside Christine Bentley....

 on CTV News at Noon & 6:00 p.m. Bentley has been chosen "Woman of the Year" by Consumers' Choice Awards Canada, an organization that promotes business excellence in the GTA
Greater Toronto Area
The Greater Toronto Area is the largest metropolitan area in Canada, with a 2006 census population of 5.5 million. The Greater Toronto Area is usually defined as the central city of Toronto, along with four regional municipalities surrounding it: Durham, Halton, Peel, and York...

 and across the country. An active member of the community, Bentley has served on the Board of Governors for Centenary Health Centre for more than a decade, and she has been active with numerous charities, including Toy Mountain and the Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Cancer Society
The Canadian Cancer Society is a national, community-based charitable organization of volunteers whose mission is to eradicate cancer and enhance the quality of life of those living with the disease....

. Currently, Bentley sits on the board of the Children's Wish Foundation.

One of Bentley's early assignments, during the tenure of CFTO News Director Ted Stuebing, was her foray into the Ontario countryside to report on which make for better jack 'o lanterns, male or female pumpkins.

She is the mother of Canadian hiphop music producer/audio engineer DJ Swivel (born Jordan Young in 1984). This fact was mentioned by CFTO anchor desk reporter Andria Case during an installment of the CFTO news at noon.

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