Ian Hanomansing

Ian Harvey Hanomansing (born 1961) is a Trinidadian-Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He currently reports for CBC Television's nightly newscast, The National. He is married and has two sons.

Early life

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 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 won six national university debating and public speaking championships and was the top speaker at the Canadian National Debating Championships.

Broadcasting career

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 and Foreign Assignment.