Ankara, 20 Safar 1438/20 November 2016 (MINA) – Canada has got its first-ever headscarf-wearing anchorwoman on Friday, Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday.
Panamanian-born Ginella Massa wrote on her Facebook page: “This is not just a big deal for me personally – As far as I know, no woman in hijab has ever anchored a major newscast in Canada.”
Working for CityNews, Massa filled in as an anchor for the Friday late newscast.
Massa also became the country’s first headscarf-wearing TV news reporter in 2015.
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Massa was born in Panama, where her parents come from. Massa came to Canada with her mother when she was a year old and grew up in Toronto.
Her mother converted to Islam from Catholicism when Massa was very young so she was raised Muslim.
CityNews is the news/current affairs division of City, a Canadian network including six metropolitan TV stations as well as a cable service. (T/R07/R01)
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