Ian Hanomansing
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Ian Hanomansing (or Hanoomansigh) (born 1961) is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He is the anchor of Canada Now, the CBC's Vancouver supperhour newscast. He has been a reporter with the CBC since 1986.
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Hanomansing also co-hosts Hemispheres, a weekly international documentary program on CBC Newsworld, co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
As a reporter, Hanomansing has covered a number of stories, including the 1989 Exon Valdez oil spill, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riots, the handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain and four Olympic Games (Atlanta,USA-1996; Nagano, Japan-1998, Salt Lake City,USA-2002, and Torino,Italy-2006. As an anchor, he anchored coverage of the 2003 North America blackout and most recently, the shootings at Dawson Collage in Montreal, Quebec.
[edit] Early life
Hanomansing was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1961, Hanomansing grew up in Sackville, New Brunswick, attending Mount Allison University for his undergraduate education, and then studied law at Dalhousie Law School. While in university, he was one of the country's most successful debaters and the top speaker at the Canadian National Debating Championship.
His broadcast media career began in the summer after his graduation at CKDH in Amherst, Nova Scotia , followed by work at CKCW in Moncton, NB and at CHNS in nearby Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He later worked for CBC bureaus in the Maritimes and Toronto, Ontario before moving to Vancouver, where he was a network reporter and hosted the now-defunct programs "Pacific Rim Report" and Foreign Assignment.
