Gord Martineau (born September 23, 1947) is a Canadian television

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. In April 2007, he received a lifetime achievement award from the

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for 40 years in broadcasting. Martineau worked briefly in radio in

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and

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with CJAD, as well as

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in Halifax and

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in Montreal before heading to Toronto. At CFCF-TV he served as weekend anchor of "Pulse". In Toronto, he worked briefly for

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but made his name as the senior

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of Citytv's City''News'' (formerly City''Pulse'') newscast in

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. He was with the station since its inception, except for a few weeks in 1980 when he moved to Global Television Network as a news co-anchor for CIII. The job did not work out, so Martineau returned to City''Pulse''. He signed off from Citytv for the last time February 29, 2016. Martineau has also appeared as a news anchor in a few movies filmed in Toronto, including ''Undue Influence'', '' Dirty Work'', and ''

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''. He played a similar role in the 2012 web series ''Guidestones''. Martineau has been associated with the Kidney Foundation, the Kid's Helpline, the Fred Victor Centre, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Ireland Fund and most notably, the Herbie Fund where he has personally escorted children in need of life-saving surgery from countries as far away as the Philippines to superlative care at the Hospital for Sick Children.

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