Anne Marie Abeyesinghe Mediwake is a

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television news anchor. Formerly co-anchor of

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's 6 p.m. ''News Hour'', she was hired in September 2009 by the

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. In October 2010, she became co-anchor of

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's supper hour newscasts, alongside

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. Prior to joining CBC, Mediwake co-anchored Global Television's Toronto flagship newscast. She also helmed CTV's investigative current affairs show '' 21c'' and reported for ''

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with Lloyd Robertson'', '' Canada AM'' and ''

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''. On April 27, 2016, Mediwake left her position as co-host of ''CBC Toronto News at 6 p.m.'', returning to CTV as co-host of their new national morning show, ''

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'', in summer 2016.

Biography

Mediwake was born in

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. Her parents immigrated to Canada when she was a child, settling in southern

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. Her father is Sri Lankan while her mother is of

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origin. In 1993, she started her television career in

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. Six years later she moved to

where she was a reporter for CTV. While at CTV, she co-hosted the award-winning ''21c'', a current-affairs program aimed at Canada's younger generation, and reported for ''Canada AM'' and ''CTV National News''. She is married to Darryl Konynenbelt, who is also a journalist and together they have triplets Annabel Abeyesinghe, Maxim Bandara and Libby Abeyesinghe who were born in 2007. An ongoing series on the pregnancy and the births was carried in the ''

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''. In 2010, Konynenbelt announced that he was seeking the provincial nomination as candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party in the Ontario electoral district of

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(Konynenbelt lost the nomination to Geoff Janoscik, who lost the 2011 election to incumbent Charles Sousa). Mediwake and Konynenbelt reside in

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References

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Global TV biography
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