Ian Harvey Hanomansing is a Canadian television journalist with the

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(CBC)."Hanomansing's future is anchored in star potential: Pacific Rim host could be next Mansbridge". ''

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'', June 16, 1997. He formerly hosted ''CBC News Network Vancouver'' on

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, and reports for

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's nightly newscast, '' The National''. On August 1, 2017, he was named a co-anchor of ''The National'', and currently anchors the show on Fridays and Sundays. He also served as interim host of

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's weekly call-in show ''

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'' from 2020 to 2022, while regular host

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was on sabbatical, and was named permanent host of the program in 2022.

Early life

Hanomansing was born in

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, Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in

Sackville, New Brunswick Sackville is a town in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. It is home to Mount Allison University, a primarily undergraduate liberal arts university. Historically based on agriculture, shipbuilding, and manufacturing, the economy is now driven ...

with parents Eunice and Harvey, along with his sister Ria. He got his first job coming out of high school in 1979 at a radio station in

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. He attended

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for his undergraduate education and graduated in 1983 with a degree in political science and sociology."Going national: Sackville man anchors CBC's supper-hour show starting Monday". ''

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'', September 30, 2000. He studied law at

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and graduated in 1986.

Broadcasting career

His broadcast media career began at CKDH in

in the summer after his graduation, followed by work at CKCW in

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and at CHNS in nearby Halifax,

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. In 1986 he joined the

. He worked for CBC bureaus in the

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and

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before moving to

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, where he was a network reporter and hosted the now-defunct programs ''Pacific Rim Report'', ''Foreign Assignment'', and ''Times 7'' (a joint venture with ''

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'') and also hosted a summer series on

, ''Feeling the Heat''. From 2000 to 2007, he was the anchor of the national segment of the defunct newscast ''

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''; following that program's cancellation, he was the co-anchor of '' CBC News: Vancouver'',

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's supper hour newscast, from 2007 to 2010. He returned to his former role as network reporter for ''The National'' in 2010 and from 2012 to 2017 he hosted ''CBC News Now with Ian Hanomansing'', which was broadcast live from CBC Vancouver on weeknights. On August 1, 2017, he was named as one of four new co-hosts of ''The National'', CBC's flagship news broadcast alongside

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and Andrew Chang. In 2020, he was named the Friday and Sunday anchor of the programme. Hanomansing has developed and hosted a series of innovative live news specials including "Downtown Drugs", in November 1998, from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside during a public health emergency declared after a high number of fatal overdoses. In March 2005, "Crime on the Streets" was broadcast, in part, from Stoney Mountain Institution in Manitoba."CBC journalist keynote speaker for Law Day Luncheon". ''

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'', April 10, 2014. It is believed to be the only live national news special from a Canadian federal penal institution. It won a national Justicia Award for Excellence in Legal Reporting, as well as a Jack Webster Award. In 2006 Hanomansing also designed Big League Manager, an

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-licensed

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. His game was voted a "Best Bet" by the

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Awards and honours

Hanomansing received an

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, Doctor of Laws

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(LLD), from Mount Allison University in 2003. On November 28, 2008 Hanomansing won the

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for Best News Anchor, beating Kevin Newman and

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. in 2010, Hanomansing was one of the recipients of the

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presented by

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. In March 2016, he won the

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for Best National News Anchor over

, Lisa LaFlamme and

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."CBC's Ian Hanomansing on the future of 'The National' post-Mansbridge". ''

'', September 19, 2016.

References

External links

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