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Former Hill journalist Gayle Morris dies after battle with cancer, ‘she was unstoppable’

Gayle Morris, seen here in 1991, passed away last week from cancer. She was seem as trailblazer for female journalists, having spent more than a decade as Ottawa bureau chief for CFCF-TV Montreal.The Hill Times photograph by Kate Malloy

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BY DEREK ABMA

April 11, 2016

Gayle Morris, the former CJOH TV Ottawa reporter from 1975 to 1978 and CFCF-TV Montreal’s Parliament Hill bureau chief from 1979 to 1991, died in Ottawa April 6 after a battle with cancer. Ms. Morris, who blazed trails for female reporters on the Hill, was only 4 feet 11 inches t...

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