Allegations bring suspension of reporter

TORONTO (CP) — A prominent CTV News reporter has been suspended, hours after a woman made sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Bell Media’s vice president of communications said Paul Bliss, who works at CTV’s bureau in the Ontario legislature, has been suspended and an investigation is underway.

The allegations were made in a blog post by Bridget Brown, who describes herself as a Calgarybased entrepreneur and former CTV employee.

Under a Friday post titled “MeToo in Canadian Broadcasting,” Brown detailed an alleged sexual incident in the spring of 2006 involving an unnamed CTV reporter.

Brown wrote that when she began working at CTV, she reached out to a reporter she had met at a party a few weeks earlier and asked if he’d like to get coffee with her in the cafeteria and reconnect.

The reporter “suggested instead I come to his office after his shift,” wrote Brown, and she agreed.

Brown said the reporter showed her around “the storied building where he worked,” and ended the tour back in his office.

She alleges that he then started kissing her and “pushing on the top of my head,” at which point she “bluntly” told him she wasn’t interested.

Brown wrote that she kept silent about the alleged incident for 12 years, and had been struggling in recent months with whether to reveal it.