Seamus O'Regan MP |
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![]() Seamus O'Regan at an interview with U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson, July 29, 2010
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Member of the Canadian Parliament for St. John's South—Mount Pearl |
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Assumed office October 19, 2015 |
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Preceded by | Ryan Cleary |
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Born |
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
January 18, 1971
Nationality | Canadian |
Political party | Liberal Party of Canada |
Spouse(s) | Steve Doussis |
Education | Attended St. Francis Xavier University Attended University College Dublin Attended INSEAD Masters of Philosophy in Politics from the University of Cambridge (Darwin College) |
Occupation | News reporter, broadcaster |
Seamus Thomas Harris O'Regan, MP, (born January 18, 1971) is a Canadian politician and former television personality from Newfoundland and Labrador. He was a correspondent with CTV National News, and a former host of Canada AM, which from 2003-2011, he co-hosted with Beverly Thomson.
O'Regan was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and spent 14 years growing up in Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador graduating from Goose High School. O'Regan is of half Irish descent. His father, also named Seamus O'Regan, was a judge on Newfoundland's Supreme Court. At the age of 10, O'Regan became a regional correspondent for CBC Radio's Anybody Home?, producing stories that celebrated the unique accomplishments of local residents - a professor hunting for giant squid to one woman's fight against leukemia.
He studied politics at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. He studied marketing strategies at INSEAD, an international business school near Paris, France. He received his Masters of Philosophy in Politics from the University of Cambridge, studying at Darwin College in Cambridge, England.