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Tim Bolen

Canadian television host

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ133306427
Source-derived summary

Tim Bolen is a Canadian television personality.

A graduate of Brock University and Seneca College, he had stage acting roles in Toronto theatre in the early 2000s, including in productions of He Died with a Felafel in His Hand and The Bible: The Complete Word of God, before joining The Weather Network as an on-air weather presenter in 2006.

From 2009 to 2011 he hosted a weekly sports magazine show for Rogers TV, and in 2010 he joined CKXT as host of the entertainment magazine show Inside Jam. He was then briefly a weather presenter for CIII in 2011 before joining CHCH as co-host of Morning Live: First Edition; after the early edition was cancelled, he became a sports and adventure reporter for the primary Morning Live. In 2022 he succeeded Bob Cowan as co-host of Morning Live, until departing the program in January 2025.

On March 17, 2025, Bolen joined Citytv as a co-host of Breakfast Television.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tim Bolen” as canadian television host. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2009, 2011, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bolen, Canadian and television can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as canadian television host. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q133306427. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from Tim Bolen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.