Rena Heer

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Rena Heer is a Canadian television personality. On January 28, 2008, she will handle weather along with Jeff Hutcheson on CTV's Canada AM which was a revamped version of the national Canada AM show. On June 6, 2008, CTV announced it is cancelling the Vancouver portion of its national morning show, "Canada AM".^[1] The national show will continue to air without Rena Heer and co-host Mi-Jung Lee.

Heer attended Simon Fraser University on a scholarship where she did her undergraduate degree in communications. After completing her degree, she was hired by a local software company and spent the next five years in software business development, while contributing part-time to various local South Asian media. Translating her interpersonal skills, promotions and marketing experience as well as her experience with the South Asian community to the television industry, she took the role of community relations manager at Channel M upon the station's launch in late spring of 2003. While also at Channel M, she hosted the station's community segment, Channel M Preview and hosted a cooking show called Fusion Fare.

She left Channel M in September of 2005 for her position as a traffic reporter at Global BC. Heer left Global BC on December 7, 2007 to join CTV's Canada AM as a weather presenter for Western Canada.