In 2003, Chen left CTV to work for independent station CKXT-DT as anchor of its daytime news program Toronto Today.[4] The program was cancelled after only eight months on the air,[5] and Chen was reassigned as a reporter for the primetime magazine program Toronto Tonight until that program was also cancelled in 2005.[6]
She then joined CBC Television and worked at TV stations in Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto until January 2007, when she became the new host of CBC Radio One's Ontario Morning, the network's local morning show for non-metropolitan markets in Southern Ontario, until 2022.[7] She lives in Toronto with her husband Michael Pollard and daughter (Jensen), who she adopted in 2003.[8][9][10]
^"Here are the nominees for the 15th annual Gemini Awards". Canadian Press, September 19, 2000.
^Ross Oakland, "New channel takes to the airwaves; Station has been built from the ground up Launch gala with 1,500 goes on despite the rain". Toronto Star, September 20, 2003.
^Michelle DaCruz, "Craig Media cuts shows, jobs at Toronto 1: Channel tries to stem losses of $1-million a week". National Post, May 19, 2004.
^Gayle MacDonald, "Troubled station backs off local news". The Globe and Mail, May 27, 2005.
^"Mother's last goodbye haunts her still; Wei Chen's family didn't talk about her mom's cancer, so her death was harder still". Toronto Star, September 24, 2009.