CTV Newsnet In late 1999, Haines became a fill-in anchor for
CTV Newsnet.
City TV Haines was hired by
Citytv Toronto as a general reporter with
CityNews. In fall 2001, she began hosting
Health on the Line, which aired on
Life Network and
Discovery Health for five seasons. On 15 September 2010, Haines returned to Citytv as a senior reporter and anchor. Beginning on 26 January 2012, she wrote and hosted the award-winning
Inside Story on Citytv. In 2016, Haines began to produce and shoot her own documentaries. Whilst volunteering on a medical humanitarian mission to post-
Ebola Liberia, she produced a documentary highlighting the plight of chimpanzees that were abandoned following years of experimentation by a U.S. research laboratory. Haines also interviewed the former Warlord
Charles G. Taylor's wife and current vice-president of Liberia,
Jewel Howard Taylor, producing a documentary called ''My Penpal: The Warlord's Wife
. The following year, during the final offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in West Mosul, Haines was embedded with the Iraqi Special Forces in an abandoned mosque that had previously served as an ISIS headquarters. Both documentaries were nominated for RTDNA Awards, and Two Kilometres to Terror: Life and Death Under ISIS'' was awarded the 2018 RTDNA Dave Rogers Award for Long Feature (Large Market).' On 12 October 2017, during the 5pm newscast,
CityNews, Haines announced she would be leaving the organization.
CTV W5 On 12 October 2017, CTV announced on social media that Haines had accepted a job as a co-host and correspondent on its news magazine,
W5. She has since won and been nominated for numerous awards for her national and international long-format investigative documentaries. In 2019,
W5 was awarded the
RTDNA Dan McArthur Award for Investigative Journalism for her one-hour documentary,
W5: No Witnesses, an exposé of a global sex abuse cover-up within the
Jehovah's Witnesses sect. In 2019, Haines also won the Innocence Canada Tracey Tyler Award for Justice for the Wrongly Convicted for ''W5: An Indigenous man's quest to clear his name''. In 2020, Haines won a
Canadian Screen Award for "Best Host or Interviewer, News or Information" for the
W5 investigation
The Narco Riviera. The academy described the documentary as "A powerful investigation into drug cartel violence in Mexico and the risk posed to tourists, including Canadians, who travel south seeking sun and sand but may find their lives at risk. The documentary includes an exclusive, chilling interview with a cartel leader – a risky and difficult to organize a journalistic coup. Following the broadcast Mexican authorities stepped up their investigations, eventually arresting drug cartel members in the 'Narco Riviera'". Haines also won the 2020 Canadian Screen Award for "Best News or Information Program" for
W5: The Baby in the Snow. This
W5 investigation into who left 11-month-old Dusty Bowers to die in the snow forced the
Ontario Provincial Police to reopen the 30-year-old cold case. In 2021, Haines was awarded the Canadian Screen Award for "Best News or Information Program" for the
W5 investigation
The Invisible Man. This documentary investigates
romance fraud, finding victims who have been scammed out of their life's savings, but also tracks the schemes to a vast international cartel of criminals, stretching to a secretive Nigerian fraud ring. In 2022, Haines won the Canadian Screen Award for "Best News or Information Program" for the
W5 investigation
A Town Divided. The documentary investigates a preacher who made headlines for defying public health laws during the
COVID-19 pandemic, sending shock waves through a small Ontario town. Pastor
Henry Hildebrandt from the
Christian Fundamentalist Church of God emerged as a hero to the
anti-lockdown crowd, preaching against the government, police, and the medical community over public health restrictions. The
W5 investigation uncovered former members who expose his church as a child-abusing cult with a prophecy about the looming
apocalypse. In February 2024, Bell Media announced that W5 would conclude as a regular television series after 58 seasons, due to cutbacks at the company. CTV News relaunched the brand as an investigative journalism unit, with Haines presenting long-form stories on the CTV National News and other CTV News platforms, and documentary specials under the branding "W5's Avery Haines Investigates". ==Awards==