Andrew Weichel

Andrew Weichel is a reporter and the supervising digital producer for CTV News Vancouver.

Since joining the newsroom in 2009, Andrew has led gripping online coverage of several municipal, provincial and federal elections, as well as a number of landmark Supreme Court decisions.

His contributions helped the station earn the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award for Best News Website twice, in 2009 and 2011, and his work reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic was recognized with a Jack Webster Award in 2020.

Andrew was born and raised in British Columbia, growing up in the Okanagan before moving to Vancouver, where he studied journalism at Langara College.

In 2019, he published his first book, "Everything British Columbia," along with his wife, Bethany Lindsay. 

RECENT ARTICLES: 

• Stranger assaults had plummeted months before Vancouver's 2022 election. Why didn't anyone know?
   
• B.C. MLA says she didn't agree to appear in 'exploitative' drug crisis video
   
• 'Very Orwellian': B.C.'s proposed 'alternative shelter' standard for clearing homeless camps slammed by critics
   
• B.C. needs non-prescription safe drug supply to curb OD deaths, expert panel says
   
• 2 arrested in Vancouver police crackdown on unsanctioned safe drug supply program
   
• Cutting obituary for B.C. man thanks karma for 'doing what she does best'
   
• 'Completely unbelievable': B.C. tenant facing eviction doubts landlord's daughter wants cramped basement
   
• 'You're not helping': Residents of B.C.'s Shuswap urged to stop seizing firefighting equipment
   
• Tennis players not 'oppressed' when community centre allowed pickleball: B.C. judge
   
• Police officers allege union told them not to keep notes after B.C. man's death
   
• Thin blue line patches go against Vancouver police policy, review finds
   
• Almost 200 pizzas arrived at warming centres across Vancouver this week. Here's what happened.
   
• 12 hours on the tarmac: Snow wreaks havoc at Vancouver airport
   
• Parents frustrated as B.C. daycare announces new fees after receiving government subsidies
   
• After child's suicide attempt, B.C. family waits 41 hours for ambulance transfer
   
• Head of Vancouver Police Union shares 'F*** the DTES grifters' image on Twitter
   
• Concerns about 'creeping politicization' as police audit Vancouver social services
   
• 'A very dangerous thing': Vancouver Police Union slammed for mayoral endorsement
   
• Flipping tax proposal 'really scary,' says B.C. MLA who bought and sold 3 homes in 4 years
   
• Ukrainian family wishes they were warned about B.C.'s pricey rental market