Carole Taylor, OC (born Carol Goss in 1945) is a Canadian journalist and politician. She previously served as British Columbia's Minister of Finance under Liberal premier Gordon Campbell.
Carole Taylor graduated from Weston Collegiate in 1964. She later attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto and graduated with a BA in English.
Taylor was Miss Toronto 1964, and co-hosted CFTO-TV's After Four, a show for teenagers. She later appeare...
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Carole Taylor, OC (born Carol Goss in 1945) is a Canadian journalist and politician. She previously served as British Columbia's Minister of Finance under Liberal premier Gordon Campbell.
Carole Taylor graduated from Weston Collegiate in 1964. She later attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto and graduated with a BA in English.
Taylor was Miss Toronto 1964, and co-hosted CFTO-TV's After Four, a show for teenagers. She later appeared on several other CFTO shows, including Toronto Today, Topic, and her own Carole Taylor Show. She and Percy Saltzman were the first co-hosts of Canada AM when the show premiered on CTV in 1972. She has also been the host of W-FIVE and Pacific Report. Her career in journalism lasted for over 20 years.
In Vancouver, she served as an independent member of Vancouver City Council from 1986 to 1990. She served as chair of the Vancouver Board of Trade from 2001 to 2002.
She was chair of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from July 16, 2001, until...
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