Ian Hanomansing

Ian Hanomansing hosts CBC News Network's weekday primetime program "Hanomansing Tonight" live from Vancouver, as well as CBC News' flagship program "The National" on Sundays and "Cross Country Checkup" on CBC Radio and CBC News Network.

Born in Trinidad and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick, veteran host and reporter Ian Hanomansing began his broadcasting career at CKDH Radio in Amherst, Nova Scotia, later working at radio stations in Moncton and Halifax before joining CBC in Halifax in 1986. His assignments took him to Toronto the following year and eventually to Vancouver, where he was a national reporter for 14 years.

Among his major assignments were the Exxon Valdez oil spill and San Francisco earthquake in 1989, the Los Angeles riot in 1992, Vancouver's two Stanley Cup riots in 1994 and 2011, the Hong Kong handover in 1997, the Slave Lake, Alberta, wildfire in 2011, the Humboldt bus crash in 2018 and seven Olympic Games, most recently in Sochi in 2014.

He has hosted a wide range of programs including "Pacific Rim Report" (1995-1999), which focused on Canada's connection to Asia; "Times 7" (2005), a joint venture between CBC News and The New York Times; "Canada Now" (2000-2007), a national supper-hour newscast; "Still Talking Hockey" (2004), a sports-themed late night program on CBC British Columbia; "Feeling the Heat" (2007), a summer series about the environment on CBC Radio One; and "CBC News Network with Ian Hanomansing" (2012-2017), which won a Canadian Association of Journalists Award in 2014 and shared a Canadian Screen Award in 2015, both for breaking news coverage.

Hanomansing also developed and hosted a series of innovative live specials, including "Downtown Drugs" (1998), which explored the problems and potential solutions in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside from the streets of that neighborhood, and "Crime on the Streets" (2005), which may be the only national news show broadcast live from the cells of a Canadian federal institution, in this case Manitoba's Stoney Mountain. That program won a Justicia Award from the Canadian Bar Association for Excellence in Legal Journalism. Other national awards include the 2008 Gemini Award for Best News Anchor, and the 2016 and 2020 Canadian Screen Award for Best National News Anchor, the latter shared with Adrienne Arsenault, Rosemary Barton and Andrew Chang.

He also co-hosted with Johanna Wagstaffe the CBC podcast "Uncover: Bomb on Board" in 2018. It investigated one of the biggest unsolved mass murders on Canadian soil, Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21, which crashed near 100 Mile House, British Columbia, in 1965, killing all 52 passengers and crew.

Hanomansing graduated with an honors B.A. in political science and sociology from Mount Allison University in Sackville, where he was valedictorian. He also holds a law degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax. While in university, Hanomansing won six national university debating and public speaking championships. He is based in Vancouver.