Ian Hanomansing
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Ian Hanomansing is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He is the anchor of the national portion of Canada Now, the CBC's supperhour newscast. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Hanomansing also co-hosts Hemispheres, a weekly international documentary program on CBC Newsworld, co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
As a reporter, Hanomansing has covered a number of stories, including the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain. As an anchor, he anchored coverage of the 2003 North America blackout.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1961, Hanomansing grew up in Sackville, New Brunswick, attending Mount Allison University for his undergraduate education, and Dalhousie University for law school. While in university, he was one of the country's most successful debaters and the top speaker at the Canadian National Debating Championship. His broadcast media career began with CHMA, the student radio station at Mount Allison, followed by work at CKDH in nearby Amherst, Nova Scotia. He later worked for CBC bureaus in the Maritimes and Toronto, Ontario before moving to Vancouver, where he was a network reporter and hosted the now-defunct program Foreign Assignment.
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External link
- [Ian Hanomansing] – CBC bio page
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