Background
Colliar was born in Scotland and grew up in Portuguese Coquitlam, British Columbia.
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Lynn Colliar
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She is a graduate of Terry Fox Secondary and went on to Simon Fraser University where she graduated with a degree in biology.
Career
Colliar worked at veterinary clinics as an assistant for seven years. She then enrolled in the two-year Broadcast Journalism program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Television career
In 1991, Colliar went to work at Global British Columbia, where she began as a newswriter before moving to a full-time reporting position.
The production dealt with how intricate scientific details pieced together as evidence led to convictions in major British Columbia homicides.
In 2005 Colliar was inducted into the Terry Fox Wall of Fame. From 1998–2001, she was the channel"s sole morning news anchor.
10 September 2010 marked Colliar"s last day as a co-anchor with Steve Darling on the Global British Columbia"s Morning News. On 27 September 2010, she began her new role as Senior Investigative Reporter for the News Hour.
She is now back on the anchor desk anchoring the Saturday and Sunday Morning News.
Acting career
Colliar had a minor role in Watchmen as an anchor and in the horror thriller film The Tortured. She has been an anchor or reporter on several local productions, including last season"s "The Killing".
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