| Ian Hanomansing | |
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Ian Hanomansing in March 2009 |
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| Born | 1961 Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Residence | Canada |
| Nationality | Canada |
| Alma mater | Dalhousie Law School, Mount Allison University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Ian Hanomansing (born 1961) is a Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He currently reports for CBC Television's nightly newscast, The National.
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Hanomansing was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, but grew up in Sackville, New Brunswick. He attended 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, New Brunswick 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.
As a reporter, Hanomansing has covered a number of stories, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill,[1] the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the 1994 Stanley Cup riot,[1] the handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain, and five Olympic Games (Atlanta, USA-1996; Nagano, Japan-1998; Salt Lake City, USA-2002; Torino, Italy-2006, and Beijing 2008). As an anchor, he led Canada-wide coverage of the Northeast Blackout of 2003 and most recently, the 2006 shootings at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec.
From 2000 to 2007, he was the anchor of the national segment of the defunct newscast Canada Now; following that program's cancellation, he was the co-anchor of CBC News: Vancouver, CBUT's supper hour newscast, from 2007 to 2010. He has been a reporter with the CBC since 1986, and was one of the network's main reporters for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[2] He is married and has two sons.
In addition to his other duties, Hanomansing co-hosted Hemispheres, a weekly international documentary program on CBC Newsworld, co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hanomansing and his role as newscaster is often the object of satire in the CBC comedy This Hour Has 22 Minutes, in which he is portrayed by cast member Shaun Majumder. In the March 24, 2009 episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Ian Hanomansing himself portrayed Shaun Majumder being interviewed by Shaun Majumder portraying Ian Hanomansing.
On November 28, 2008 Hanomansing won the Gemini Award for the Best News Anchor in Canada, beating Kevin Newman and Peter Mansbridge.[3]
Hanomansing also designed Big League Manager, an NHL-licensed board game. His game was voted a "Best Bet" by the Canadian Toy Testing Council.[4]