IAN HANOMANSING
CO-HOST, CBC NEWS: VANCOUVER AT SIX
Ian Hanomansing's journalism career with the CBC has taken him from Igloolik, north of the Arctic Circle to southeast Asia.
Hanomansing has been a reporter with CBC Television News since 1986, covering a wide range of stories including the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (1989), the Los Angeles Riots (1992), Vancouver's Post-Stanley Cup Riot (1994), the Handover of Hong Kong in 1997 and last three Olympic Winter Games, in Nagano, Salt Lake City and Turin. As host of CBC Newsworld's Pacific Rim Report and Foreign Assignment between 1995 and 2000, his assignments took him to Asia, including the Philippines, Japan and Vietnam.
Hanomansing has also hosted and co-developed some groundbreaking live news specials on CBC Newsworld, including: 1998's "Downtown Drugs: A Night on the Streets"; a two hour program from Vancouver's downtown eastside, "Homeless: Live on the Street", which in 2003 looked at the challenges facing homeless people across the country hosted live from a shelter in Vancouver; and 2005's "Crime on the Street", believed to be the only network news special to be broadcast live from inside a Canadian penitentiary.
Hanomansing was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and grew up in Sackville, New Brunswick. He graduated with an honors B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from Mount Allison University in Sackville, and a Law Degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He began his broadcasting career at CKDH Radio in Amherst, Nova Scotia and worked at radio stations in Moncton and Halifax before joining CBC Television in Halifax.
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