Russ Germain (1947 – February 2, 2009) was a Canadian broadcaster who worked for

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from 1973 to 2002. He was born in

New Liskeard, Ontario Temiskaming Shores is a city in the Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It was created by the amalgamation of the town of New Liskeard, the town of Haileybury, and the township of Dymond in 2004. The city had a total population ...

. He hosted the flagship news programs '' World Report'' and '' The World at Six''. In 1990, Germain was made the CBC's broadcast language adviser, in which role he provided suggested pronunciations of obscure vocabulary for other announcers.

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