Cynthia Mulligan
Canadian television presenter
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Cynthia Mulligan (born 22 November 1973)[1] is a Canadian television presenter on CITY-TV's CityNews.[2]
She was born on 22 November 1973, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Mulligan studied English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[2] She started at Citytv in the CityPulse library. Before moving over to CityNews, she was a news writer for Breakfast Television. Mulligan has also been an ENG cameraperson and a videographer.[2] She added the duties of anchoring CP24 in January 1998 until 2008 when CTVglobemedia acquired the channel.[citation needed]
As of 2025[update] Mulligan works as a reporter on CityNews at Five and CityNews at Six (weekdays) focusing on politics.[3] She had been an education specialist/reporter in the 2008-2010 period.[2] Her work was nominated for a Gemini Award for best local reporting.[4] She won two Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards: for her coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, and in 2017 for her series on Transgender Surgery in Bangkok.[3] She also won The Edward R Murrow award for her 2010–2011 series "Kicking Cancer", a first-person account of what it is like to suddenly be diagnosed with cancer and the lengthy emotional process of treatment.[3] In 2026, she received the Canadian Screen Award for best news anchor, local.
Mulligan has two daughters.[1] In April 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.[5] She announced the diagnosis publicly in May 2010, and later reported on and blogged about her experiences of treatment.[5][6] In 2018, she made an impact statement in court against ex-boyfriend Mike Bullard after he pleaded guilty to making harassing phone calls.[7]
On 29 June 2021, Mulligan took to Twitter to announce that her cancer had returned. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer around Christmas, 2020.[8]