Wendy Mesley is a host-reporter for CBC English Television's consumer investigation show Marketplace. She is also a frequent back-up anchor for CBC's flagship evening news program The National.

She co-hosted, with Diana Swain, the investigative newsmagazine , and previously hosted her own media and technology show, Undercurrents.

Mesley married CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge in 1989, but the marriage fell apart in 1992. She remarried on April 17, 1998 to marketing executive Liam McQuade and has one daughter with him, Kate Rae McQuade.

In January 2005, Mesley announced she is receiving chemotherapy after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Her prognosis is likely excellent.