Ian Hanomansing

Ian Hanomansing (or Hanoomansingh) (born 1961) is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He is the co-anchor of "", CBUT's supper hour newscast. From 2000 to 2007, he was the anchor of the national segment of the defunct newscast "Canada Now". He has been a reporter with the CBC since 1986, and will be one of the network's main reporters for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2008/13/c3749.html] He is married, and has two sons.

Hanomansing was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1961, then later moved to and 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, 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".

As a reporter, Hanomansing has covered a number of stories, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the 1992 Liberal convention with Nav Brar, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the 1994 Stanley Cup riot, 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 led Canada-wide coverage of the 2003 North America blackout and most recently, the 2007 shootings at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec.

In addition to his current news anchor duties, Hanomansing co-hosts "Hemispheres", a weekly international documentary program on CBC Newsworld, co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Hanomansing and his role as newcaster is often satired in the CBC comedy "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", in which he portrayed by cast member Shaun Majumder.

Hanomansing also designed Big League Manager, an NHL-licensed board game. His game was voted a "Best Bet" by the Canadian Toy Testing Council. [http://www.blmgames.com/blm-ian.html]

ee also

* List of Canadian debaters

External links

* [http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/personality/index.jsp?personality=Hanomansing%2C+Ian CBC Program Guide]