Jermaine Wilson
Jermaine Wilson is a multi-platform writer and digital producer with CTV News Toronto and CP24, focusing on education, youth and community stories within breaking news and city coverage. His reporting ties teachers, students and young people to wider city events, from extreme weather and environmental alerts to crime and major sports fixtures. He works across broadcast and digital formats, including live update blogs, service journalism and feature-style pieces that foreground how decisions and disruptions affect everyday life.
Smoke-related cancellations and closures across the GTA
In his piece “These are some of the smoke-related cancellations and closures across the GTA,” Wilson organizes a fast-changing situation into a clear, practical snapshot of what is shut down and what remains open. He treats smoke conditions as a citywide operational issue rather than a purely environmental story, centring tangible impacts on services and institutions. The emphasis is on verified cancellations and closures and on plain language that allows readers to quickly understand how the situation touches their routines.
That format reflects a broader pattern in his work: he uses concise, list-driven reporting to translate abstract risk into direct consequences for schools, youth spaces and public services.
Toronto teacher stepping up to fight the city’s deep freeze
Wilson’s coverage of a Toronto teacher “stepping up to fight the city’s deep freeze” shows his interest in educators as local problem-solvers. In that story, he follows a teacher who takes initiative during one of the coldest stretches in years, using her classroom and community ties to respond to the weather emergency.
He also highlights a master’s student who turns a late-night idea into more than a hundred care packages for people experiencing homelessness, connecting higher education to frontline support.
The reporting leans on detailed narrative rather than opinion, letting the teacher and student describe their choices while he supplies clear context on the severity of the cold and the scale of the response. Education, in his hands, is not just institutional policy but a network of individuals who act when the city is under strain.
Criminal harassment involving youth on the TTC
Wilson extends his focus on young people into crime and safety coverage, including a story on a 34-year-old woman charged with criminal harassment involving youth on the TTC.
The framing centres on the youth involved and the transit setting, treating the case as both a justice issue and a question of safety in everyday public spaces. His approach in this area is straightforward and procedural: he reports the charge, identifies the key parties and keeps the language tight, aligning with hard news standards while maintaining attention on how such incidents affect young riders.
This strand of his work complements his education and community reporting by following youth beyond the classroom into the wider urban environment.
World Cup live updates from Toronto Stadium
Wilson plays a prominent role in World Cup match coverage at Toronto Stadium, contributing to live update formats that track both the games and the surrounding atmosphere. In live blogs on matches such as Iraq vs. Senegal and Portugal vs. Croatia, he files time-stamped updates on fan marches, crowd activity and key moments in play, including stoppage-time goals. He also documents gestures of solidarity at the venue, such as a moment of silence held for earthquake victims in Venezuela before kickoff, linking global events to the local crowd. The tone in these updates is brisk and observational, with an emphasis on what is happening in real time rather than analysis or commentary. This live work underscores his comfort with fast-moving, multi-platform coverage and shows how he incorporates major sporting events into his broader picture of how the city functions.
Across these strands - service pieces on smoke-related closures, human-centred education stories, youth safety on transit and live sports coverage - Wilson’s distinguishing trait is his focus on how larger forces filter down to the level of teachers, students, young people and the services they rely on. He writes in plain, direct prose and favours formats that help readers quickly grasp what has changed in their environment, whether that is a list of closures, a snapshot of a transit incident or minute-by-minute updates from a stadium. His multi-platform role with CTV News Toronto and CP24, including weekend writing and digital production responsibilities, supports this style of coverage by keeping him close to both the assignment desk and the live digital output. The result is a body of work that tracks the intersection of education, youth experience and city operations with a consistent emphasis on clarity and immediacy.
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Abby Russchen
Abby Russchen ties education, community institutions and individual stories together, showing how policies and decisions register in people’s lives. She reports for CBC on education and community life, working across text, video and photography for different CBC platforms. Her education coverage centres student achievement, provincial and national test results, classroom technology and the forces shaping learning conditions, connecting policy language and expert analysis to observable changes in performance. She treats AI, screens and digital tools as part of the education beat, focusing on their impact on student well-being. She also reports on community institutions and local services, from bank closures and changing city status to small-business growth. Her human-interest features follow people, public memory and recognition, and her long-form background supports detailed, fact-grounded narratives across formats.
Alexa Phillips
Alexa Phillips reports on education as a financial system, tracing who pays, who benefits and who bears the risk when policy changes reshape schools and universities. She covers education policy, funding and regulation for The i Paper, with a consistent focus on money, power and their impact on students and staff. Her reporting follows fees, budgets and reform into classrooms and lecture halls, using concrete figures to show how tax changes, funding mechanisms and loan reforms translate into course cuts, job losses and access. Phillips brings wider experience on public services and regulation, including work on gambling oversight and healthcare access, so education sits in a larger accountability story. She writes straightforward, reported news pieces that combine policy detail, financial data and case studies, built from official records and regular call‑outs to readers affected by the systems she covers.
Alexandra Holyk
Alexandra Holyk is a multi-skilled journalist at CTV News who reports on education and youth issues through the daily lives of students, families, and local communities. She covers school and campus decisions, student safety, youth behaviour, and neighbourhood incidents, with a focus on how they affect the people directly involved. Her work includes stories on graduation choices, concerns about Black students in a school board, federal research funding at the University of Waterloo, and students who helped after a cyclist collision. She also covers vandalism and other local disruptions around schools and neighbourhoods. Holyk pitches, researches, shoots, writes, edits, and presents stories for broadcast and digital platforms. Her previous work includes video journalism for provincial coverage, along with reporting for campus and regional outlets and major Canadian newspapers and business media.
Annabelle Olivier
Annabelle Olivier ties system-level themes in Quebec’s school system to the immediate realities of parents and students, treating education as a lived experience rather than an abstract policy field. She is a digital journalist with CBC News, covering education and related public policy. Her work spans data breaches and digital privacy in schools, institutional conflicts and labour disputes that disrupt study plans, education on the campaign trail, and school infrastructure and land use. She reports on incidents like mass emails exposing sensitive parent data, suspended classes that leave students feeling like bargaining chips, and proposals to turn racetracks into schools. Her background in digital production at another major Canadian broadcaster shapes an online-first reporting style, grounded in specific incidents, clear descriptions, and detailed, verifiable facts drawn from documents, statements and interviews.