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Ian Hanomansing in March 2009
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Born |
Ian Harvey Hanomansing 1961 (age 55–56) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
Residence | Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | Dalhousie Law School, Mount Allison University |
Occupation | Journalist |
Employer | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Ian Harvey Hanomansing (born 1961) is a Trinidadian-Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He currently hosts "CBC News Network with Ian Hanomansing" and reports for CBC Television's nightly newscast, The National. He is married and has two sons.
Hanomansing was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in Sackville, New Brunswick. He attended Mount Allison University for his undergraduate education and graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science and Sociology. He studied law at Dalhousie Law School and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) in 1986. While in university, he was top debater at the National Championships in 1982,1984 and 1985, top public speaker in 1984 and 1985 and, with Cyril Johnstone, top team in 1985.
His broadcast media career began at CKDH in Amherst, Nova Scotia in the summer after his graduation, followed by work at CKCW in Moncton, New Brunswick and at CHNS in nearby Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1986 he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He 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 ,Foreign Assignment, and "Times 7" (a joint venture with the New York Times) and also hosted a summer series on CBC Radio One, "Feeling the Heat."