David Onley
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David Onley is a Canadian television personality. He is a science and technology reporter for Toronto, Ontario TV station CITY, and an anchor for its 24-hour news sister station CablePulse 24.
Onley was educated at the University of Toronto in political science. He began his career in radio, hosting a weekly science show for Toronto radio station CFRB, subsequently joining the CKO network in 1983. He then joined CITY in 1984 as weather specialist, a position he held until 1989.
From 1989 to 1995 he was the first news anchor on the then-new Breakfast Television, CITY's morning show. He served as education specialist for CITY and CablePulse 24 from 1994-1999. He became an anchor on CP24, when the station launched in 1999, and now also hosts Homepage on CP24.
He was Canada's first on-air television personality with a visible disability; partially paralyzed due to a childhood battle with polio, he uses a mobility device. In honour of his contributions to the advancement of disability issues in Canada, he has received awards from the Terry Fox Hall of Fame and the Clarke Institute.
Onley wrote Shuttle, a bestselling novel about space travel, published in 1981, and was founding president of the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada.
