Noor Ra’fat

Video Journalist and Anchor

Noor Ra’fat is a video journalist and anchor at Global News Toronto.

Her reporting focuses on breaking news and community issues impacting the Greater Toronto Area. She takes a personal interest in reporting on xenophobia, misinformation, and gender and sexual violence.

Throughout her career, Ra’fat has dedicated her time to covering stories dominating headlines as well as re-shining a light on the sometimes forgotten.

Her reporting has included interviewing Team Canada’s paralympic athletes minutes before they jetted off to the 2026 Winter Olympics, speaking to Canadians fleeing the Middle East amid the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, reporting from the Rogers Centre during the Toronto Blue Jays’ historic World Series run, and travelling to polls across the Greater Toronto Area during the 2025 Canadian federal election.

She has explored the 2021 US Capitol riot’s influence on Canadian politics, highlighted the heartbreak of an Ontario family amid a decade-long search for answers to their mother’s suspicious disappearance, revisited the COVID-19 lab-leak theory, detailed the violent beating and death of an Ontario man inside a Lindsay jail and explored fabricated accounts of Queen Elizabeth’s death and their role in deluding the public.

In 2020, Ra’fat launched the three-year long series Fact or Fiction, which focused on the invasiveness of mis-and-disinformation and the growing threats of AI. The segment aired on networks across the country, exploring topics like Russia’s use of deep-fakes amid its war on Ukraine, the spike of disinformation in Canada following Roe v. Wade’s reversal in the U.S. and the refusal of doctors to treat unvaccinated patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021, she broke the news of Ontario driving instructors abusing the Drive Test booking system to illegally sell road test dates to motorists hoping to bypass a province-wide backlog affecting hundreds of thousands. During the fallout, the Ministry of Transportation enhanced security to its online booking system.

A host of several award shows, speaking engagements and journalism panels in the past decade, Ra’fat has been extremely grateful and honoured for the opportunity to speak to the public about how their work can change the world. In 2019, she founded a charity organization with five of her friends to fundraise for women fleeing sexual violence.

Noor is a proud Trent University (#BleedGreen) and Durham College alumni. She holds a diploma in broadcast journalism and electronic media, as well as an honours degree in media studies. In her free time, she enjoys catching a horror movie at the cinema, skateboarding, going to the beach and breaking a sweat at the gym.

You can catch Noor weeknights at 6 and 11, on weekends, or on X and Youtube.