Adrian Harewood is a

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television and radio journalist, and the anchor of CBOT's ''CBC News: Ottawa at 5/5:30/6'' and ''CBC News: Late Night'' in

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. An Ottawa native, Harewood attended

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, a private school in Rockcliffe, where he was headboy. Harewood volunteered for

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and

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before moving to

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, earning a degree from

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in political science and becoming a programmer and station manager for

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. At CKUT, he hosted a weekly program, ''Soul Perspective'', about

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issues. Notably, he devoted several episodes of the program to the issue of

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in the black community after a performance poetry night at which poet Judge Dread Mathematik performed a work which some audience members felt was homophobic."Fear of a queer planet?"
''

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'', December 16, 1998. He later joined

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, becoming a journalist and substitute host on

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, before being named the permanent host of

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's ''

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'' in 2006."Accomplished broadcaster Adrian Harewood named as host of CBC Radio One's All In A Day, Ottawa"
''Ottawa Start'', March 14, 2006. He remained in that role until September 2009, when he joined ''CBC News: Late Night''. Some of the national programs he has hosted on CBC Radio and CBC Television include ''As it Happens'', ''

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'', ''The Current'' and ''CounterSpin'' as well as Toronto shows ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''Here and Now''. He was also the host of ''The Actors, The Directors and Literati'' as seen on BRAVO and PBS.

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