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__NOTOC__ EDUCATION Assuras was born to parents who immigrated from Tripoli, Greece after World War II . She also is the Cousin of former NHL player Nick Kypreos . She was raised in her birthplace of London, Ontario , attending London Central Secondary School . Assuras remained in London to attend the University Of Western Ontario (UWO), pursuing a B.Sc (Honors) degree with the intent of going into medicine. She graduated in 1980 , but in a change of career plans entered the graduate program in Journalism and earning her Master's Degree in 1981 . Twenty-one years later she commented on the impact the journalism program had on her: :It's hard to describe my time at Western because it was a phenomenal turning point in my life. I always had these delusions of being a writer and I always overloaded my mind with information and literature. That program just brought things together for me. CAREER Assuras has worked for CITY -TV and Global Television , including a stint as reporter and weekend anchor for CityPulse from 1985 to 1988 . From 1992 to 1993 she worked for CTV , anchoring Canada AM . She then moved to ABC , and in May 1993, joined Aaron Brown as co-anchor of '' ABC World News Now ''. She shared that late-night anchor desk with Boyd Matson , Fellow Canadian Kevin Newman , and Mark Mullen before leaving the show in January 1997 . In 1997 she moved to CBS , first joining CBS Eye On People , a Cable Network that CBS launched in March 1997. She also worked as a national correspondent and later became co-anchor of '' The Saturday Early Show '' and then the '' CBS Evening News Saturday'' (in an alternating arrangement with Russ Mitchell). In a June 22 , 1998 article in '' Maclean's '', Assuras commented on her reason for moving to the United States: :I wanted to live in a different country. And I wanted to work where you have all the tools you need on a story. On Saturday, April 2, 2005, Assuras anchored CBS's extensive breaking-news coverage of the death of Pope John Paul the Second. AWARDS The Daughters Of Penelope recognized Assuras with the "2000 Salute to Women" award; She was awarded the Marie Torre Memorial Award in 2001 . EXTERNAL LINKS
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