None of This Was Planned

Vancouver news icon and co-host of CTV’s “The Last Word,” Mike McCardell is the crafter of human-interest stories that counteract the doom and gloom of conventional news programming. With his unerring instinct for teasing out the powerful “hook” of human connection from the most innocuous (or bizarre) events, McCardell’s unique perspective has endeared him to hundreds of thousands of fans.

He has a...