Sarah MacDonald

Anchor / Reporter

Currently on maternity leave, Sarah MacDonald is the anchor of Global BC’s News Hour at 6pm and 11pm Weekend newscasts. When she’s not in the anchor chair for her own shows, Sarah regularly reports for News Hour and Global National. She substitutes as anchor for both newscasts.

During her time with the Global News network, Sarah has covered some of the most significant local, national, and international news stories in recent history. Her work and coverage has been recognized by the Jack Webster Awards, the Canadian Screen Awards, and RTDNA Canada.

Sarah played a key role in Global BC’s extended breaking news coverage of the mass casualty incident at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Day Festival in April of 2025. The team coverage was recognized by the Jack Webster Foundation that same year, winning the Jack Webster Award for Best News Reporting of the Year.

In 2023, Sarah was awarded the Jack Webster Award for Best News Reporting of the Year for her investigative continuing coverage of the circumstances surrounding the death of Noelle O’Soup: an Indigenous child who disappeared while in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development. Her remains would ultimately be discovered inside the subsidized housing unit of a serial sexual predator, who had been ordered deported from Canada and was being sought on a Canada-wide warrant. Through Sarah’s work, it was publicly revealed that O’Soup’s remains—alongside those of another woman—had gone overlooked by frontline members of the Vancouver Police Department and the BC Coroners Service for months, despite multiple calls to, and apparent inspections of, the unit.

In November 2020, Sarah joined Global National’s team coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election, reporting on location from Portland, Oregon and Washington State.

Months earlier, Sarah led the network’s comprehensive national coverage of the Wet’suwet’en rights and title conflict in Northern British Columbia—spending weeks on location in Smithers, Houston, and Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan Territory. The standoff over construction of the now-operational natural gas pipeline sparked widespread protests across Canada.

When coronavirus was first detected in Canada, Sarah led the network’s coverage of the country’s first long-term care outbreak, at the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver. In the months following, Sarah contributed to Global BC’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic on a near-daily basis.

Other major news events that have taken Sarah on the road in recent years include the cross-country manhunt for notorious teenaged murderers Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod, which began in British Columbia and ended in Manitoba; the Enbridge natural gas pipeline explosion that forced the evacuation of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation near Prince George; and Canada’s only double-fatal grizzly bear mauling on record, in the Yukon Territories.

Before joining Global News, Sarah spent the first decade of her career with the CTV News network, based in Vancouver and Toronto.

During her time with CTV News, Sarah led the network’s award-winning coverage of historic flooding in the town of Grand Forks in 2018. Sarah’s body of work, the result of nine days on the ground in Grand Forks and surrounding areas, was later recognized by the Canadian Screen Awards, the Jack Webster Awards, and RTDNA Canada—winning the Ron Laidlaw Award for Best Continuing Coverage in 2019.

Sarah also contributed to team coverage that earned accolades for journalistic excellence on regional and national levels during her time with CTV News: a British Columbia Association of Broadcasters Award for continuing coverage of the tragic line-of-duty death of Abbotsford Police Constable John Davidson, and an RTDNA Canada award for the network’s live coverage of British Columbia’s historical provincial election in 2017.

Sarah studied Political Science at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, before graduating from the Broadcast Journalism program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

A fifth-generation Vancouverite, Sarah lives in Kitsilano with her husband and three daughters—Hart, Maude, and Charlotte.