Cassidy McMackon
Cassidy McMackon is a digital producer with CTV News whose reporting sits at the intersection of politics, public systems, and fast-turn breaking news. Her coverage tracks how party dynamics, policy decisions, and institutional pressures show up in classrooms, courtrooms, and on the streets, tying political developments to tangible community outcomes. She works in formats that favour clear timelines, verified facts, and sourced quotations over commentary, making her a consistent conduit for official information and real-time updates.
Party dynamics and provincial power
McMackon’s politics reporting concentrates on party dynamics and shifts in provincial power, with close attention to leadership decisions, riding-level results, and the ripple effects on wider conservative and social democratic movements.
In coverage of a byelection where the NDP captured Calgary-Shaw, she documented the party overturning a long-standing UCP stronghold, detailing vote margins, candidate identities, and the significance of the upset for the governing party. In reporting on B.C. Conservative members leaving the party over concerns about links to Alberta separatism, she framed the story around internal dissent, the language party figures use around separatism, and the implications that rhetoric has for caucus unity and voter trust.
In a co-authored piece on Avi Lewis becoming the new NDP leader, she worked within a format that balances leadership biography, energy and policy positions, and reactions from political opponents and stakeholders. Her digital role also connects her to federal trade and tariff coverage, including material on negotiations between Ottawa and Washington and demands for disclosure of U.S. trade offer details, placing domestic political narratives alongside international economic pressure points.
Education strain and public services
Within her politics beat, McMackon uses stories about public services to illustrate how policy and funding choices filter down into everyday operations.
In her work on substitute teacher shortages in public schools, she focuses on staffing gaps and the resulting “scrambling” by administrators, highlighting how these pressures affect classroom continuity, student support, and the workload of permanent staff. She draws on comments from educators and boards and on basic operational data to show where the system is strained, keeping the emphasis on practical consequences rather than abstract debate. This approach makes education stories part of a broader pattern in her work: political decisions are examined through the stress points they create in the institutions that residents rely on.
Breaking incidents and community impact
Alongside politics, McMackon regularly handles breaking incidents that touch on public safety, transportation, and infrastructure. Her coverage of a tour bus roll at Alberta’s Columbia Icefield centres on the circumstances of the crash, injury details, and the response from emergency services and park officials, giving readers a clear factual account of what happened and how authorities intervened.
In a story about a small plane landing on the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, co-written with another reporter, she brings together eyewitness descriptions, the pilot’s explanation, and statements from officials to reconstruct the event and its safety implications for drivers and air traffic.
She writes on serious traffic collisions, such as a motorcyclist crash resulting in life-threatening injuries, framing the news around road closures, investigation updates, and calls for information from police. Her reporting also includes violent incidents and their legal aftermath, as in coverage of a High River shooting death and the accused’s court appearance, where she emphasizes timelines, charges, and messages from authorities about the case’s progress through the justice system. In more human-interest public safety pieces, such as the rescue of a cat stranded on a power pole, she keeps the focus on the sequence of the response, utility and rescue crews’ actions, and the relief at a safe outcome.
Her author page and related work on police investigations show familiarity with oversight bodies like ASIRT and with documenting ongoing inquiries into officer-involved incidents.
Digital production and newsroom background
McMackon’s digital producer role means her name and production credit often sit on fast-moving stories that need to be updated as new information comes in, weaving official briefings, on-scene details, and political context into concise, accessible pieces.
Her position is recognized across the CTV system and in press industry records, which note her joining as a digital producer in 2026. Earlier in her career, she held editorial roles at a campus newspaper, progressing from assistant news editor to opinions editor and then editor-in-chief, indicating experience in managing coverage and overseeing both news and commentary sections.
Across these assignments, she tends to stay close to verifiable facts, relying on clearly attributed quotes, official releases, and concrete numbers rather than extended analysis, which aligns her output with rapid, fact-forward digital news coverage.
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