Michelle Ghoussoub

Reporter, CBC News

Michelle Ghoussoub is a reporter and anchor for CBC News based in Vancouver. She has received two nominations for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Local Reporter. She can be reached at michelle.ghoussoub@cbc.ca.

Latest from Michelle Ghoussoub

Cancer patient injured after flight, says Air Canada staff failed to properly secure her to wheelchair

Vito and Sheila Rizzuto booked a trip to Miami after her terminal cancer diagnosis. But an incident disembarking from an Air Canada flight left her in severe pain, with several injuries.

Passports, provincial assistance cheques not being delivered as Canada Post strike drags on

Canadians with key documents not being delivered say they're concerned as the Canada Post strike approaches the one-week mark.

Are record numbers of people leaving B.C., as John Rustad claims?

B.C. Conservative Party Leader John Rustad said a record number of people have left B.C. because of failed NDP policies. But data shows the province's population has continued to climb.

Victim of Surrey, B.C., homicide identified as 30-year-old woman

Investigators have identified the victim of a homicide in Surrey, B.C., as 30-year-old Tori Dunn.

A 6-year, mass die-off of grey whales has been declared over by scientists

A mass die-off of grey whales in the Pacific has been declared over by researchers, who say a combination of starvation, vessel strikes, and attacks from killer whales may have been to blame for thousands of deaths.

B.C. patients worry as breast cancer screening wait times climb

The B.C. Radiological Society and doctors who refer patients across B.C. say delays in booking and processing breast imaging are worsening, leaving patients navigating a complex system that is increasingly understaffed and underfunded.

Landmark study finds prescribing opioids dramatically reduced deaths, overdoses for drug users in B.C.

A study conducted by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control has found that prescribing medical-grade opioids dramatically reduced the rates of deaths and overdoses for drug users living in B.C.
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Passenger forced to drag himself off Air Canada flight after airline failed to provide wheelchair assistance

Oct. 27: A B.C. man who uses a wheelchair says he was forced to drag himself off an Air Canada flight in Las Vegas, after the airline failed to provide the assistance required for him to safely exit the plane.

Air Canada fined $97.5K for failing to assist passenger in wheelchair

The Canadian Transportation Agency has handed Air Canada a fine of $97,500 after a passenger in a wheelchair was made to drag himself off a plane in Las Vegas.

Passenger in wheelchair says he was left with septic injury after being removed from flight on food trolley

A passenger who travelled through Vancouver International Airport during the summer of 2022 says he almost lost his foot to an injury that turned septic, after he was unable to disembark from a British Airways flight for hours.