Alison Smith

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Alison Smith (b. 3 January 1954–) is a Canadian television journalist and anchor. Smith was born and raised in Osoyoos, British Columbia. She graduated in 1972 from Southern Okanagan Secondary School in nearby Oliver, where her father Bruce Smith was a guidance counsellor. She studied at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Ryerson University in Toronto.

Smith is currently the CBC's Washington correspondent and is a substitute anchor for The National. Prior to her Washington assignment, she was the host of the network's morning show: CBC News: Morning.

Smith was also one of the first anchors for CBC Newsworld on the program This Day.

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