Born in Toronto, her parents were George Binks, of Lachine, Québec, and Enid Watts Binks, of Letterston, Wales. She worked at the
Toronto Telegram (and he at the
Toronto Daily Star) for several months, and then they moved to London, England, where they lived for five years. From the UK, she wrote for a number of Canadian periodicals, including ''
Maclean's, Star Weekly, Weekend, Chatelaine, and newspapers including the Telegram
and the Montreal Star, under the byline Elizabeth Binks or Liz Binks.
She contributed pieces to the CBC program, Countdown
, and then continued to freelance for the broadcaster. In summer 1976, she hosted Olympic Magazine'', CBC radio's coverage of the
Montreal Olympic Games. In 1979 she presented an open-line show on the Ottawa commercial radio station,
CKOY. In April 1984,
ACTRA presented Gray its annual honour for excellence in broadcast journalism, the
Gordon Sinclair Award. The next year, in a controversial decision by the show's producers, at the end of the broadcast season her contract was not renewed. She presented her last
As It Happens program on June 14, 1985, and was replaced that September by Dennis Trudeau.
Toronto Star entertainment columnist Sid Adilman saw her as a "
scapegoat" for problems with the broadcast, which had already endured staff changes, had been shortened from 90 minutes to one hour, and was slipping in the ratings. and, in 1988, the association's
Norman DePoe Award for investigative journalism, for her feature, "In South Africa, I Would Be White." After having been admitted to hospital following a heart attack in September 2023, she died from lung cancer on October 25, 2023, at the age of 86. She is survived by her children, Colin, Rachel, and Joshua Gray, all of Toronto. ==References==