Colleen Jones, a world champion curler whose effervescent personality made her a popular presence on the CBC over nearly four decades with the national broadcaster, has died. She was 65.

Jones was diagnosed with cancer in early 2023. Her son Luke announced she died Tuesday morning in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

A Halifax native, Jones was named a member of the Order of Canada in 2022. She filed her final report for the CBC a year later before retiring.

Jones won her first Canadian women’s curling championship in 1982. Just 22 at the time, she became the youngest skip to win the competition.

Her second Scotties Tournament of Hearts title came in 1999. Jones’s team of Kim Kelly, Mary-Anne Arsenault and Nancy Delahunt followed with four straight titles from 2001-04.

She joined the CBC

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