Thomas Daigle reports from Toronto and beyond for CBC’s The National, World Report, The World at Six and other CBC News programs and platforms.
In 2022, Thomas reported from the chaos of the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa and Windsor, Ontario. His reporting in the wake of the April 2020 mass shootings in Nova Scotia later led the RCMP to review some procurement procedures.
While Thomas covered the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, his team’s work highlighting the story of refugee athletes bound for Canada earned a nomination for an RTDNA national award for excellence in sports reporting.
While previously based in London, Thomas was dispatched to Paris, Brussels, Nice, Manchester and Barcelona in the aftermath of terrorist attacks. He reported from Windsor, England on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding day and gauged the mood of Britons during the Brexit referendum. He returned to London to cover Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022 and King Charles’s accession to the throne only months later.
Until 2016, Thomas reported from Montreal, where he was part of the team who received RTDNA Canada’s Dan MacArthur Award for in-depth/investigative reporting into the federal Conservative candidate running as part of an “art project.”
His work the day of the 2017 London Tube attack also led World Report to be honoured with RTDNA Canada’s Charlie Edwards Award for breaking news coverage. In 2021, he was part of the World Report team honoured in the same category for its coverage of the death of Prince Philip.
Thomas is fluent in both English and French. After graduating from Concordia University’s journalism program, he served as a video journalist for CBC’s French-language service, Radio-Canada, in his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick.
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