Pamela McCall
Morning Edition HostPamela is a dual citizen who hails from Canada and has been wandering the planet as a journalist. Vancouver, Hong Kong, London, New York and Seattle have been along her well-trodden path. She’s worked for the BBC World Service, CBS News Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. On 9-11, Pamela was an eyewitness to the collapse of the World Trade Center. Her love of skiing, mountains and radio has brought her back to Salt Lake City, where she covered ski racing during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Pamela is a certified ski instructor and a fledgling cook who admits to not being fully domesticated. She drove her well-worn car with her beloved kitty Possum through one Canadian province and three states to arrive at her new home at the foot of the Wasatch mountains.
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Toxic dust from the drying lake bed is becoming airborne and researchers from Utah State University are seeking answers blowing in the wind. -
Many sexual assault survivors in Utah face not just the trauma of the attack, but also a culture that places the blame on their shoulders. The Dove Center in St. George is trying to change that.
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A viral TikTok account from a group of students is exposing homophobia, sexism and racism at BYU.
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Salt Lake City artist Galina Perova and Jacke Corbett had been on a mission to rescue relatives who had fled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The White House has warned that Russia could launch cyberattacks against the U.S.
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Artist Galina Perova is on her way to Poland to rescue family members who’ve fled war-torn Ukraine, with the hope of bringing them back to Utah.
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James Jackson III, founder of the Utah Black Chamber, is on a mission to knock down inequitable hurdles and create a space where Black Utahns feel comfortable being themselves.
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Twenty years ago, athletes from around the world traveled to Salt Lake City for the Winter Olympics. Among the leaders was now-Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. He joined Pamela McCall to look back at the games and ahead to the prospect of doing it all over again.
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After a similar bill failed last year, a Utah lawmaker has again reintroduced a bill to bar transgender and nonbinary minors’ from accessing gender-affirming medical care.
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Salt Lake City ski racer Bella Wright heads to the Beijing Winter Olympics Tuesday morning. The 24-year-old, who started racing at Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon, will compete in the downhill and super-G events — where she could reach speeds of 85 mph. She’s also travelling headlong into controversy at the Olympics, with a U.S. diplomatic boycott of the games in place and tough COVID-19 restrictions.
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After Utah tech company founder Dave Bateman made antisemitic claims in an email to political and tech leaders Jan. 3, Salt Lake City Rabbi Avremi Zippel publicly voiced his exasperation. Zippel says this kind of unfounded conspiracy rhetoric can have real-world — sometimes violent — ramifications.
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Sen. Harry Reid’s recent death prompted an American history professor to suggest that Reid’s passing may threaten the liberal Latter-day Saint tradition. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Benjamin Park writes that the one-time Senate majority leader is the last of his kind when it comes to Church members’ affiliation with the Democratic Party.
