IAN HANOMANSING hosts CBC News' flagship program THE NATIONAL from Vancouver on Fridays and Sundays, and is also the host of CROSS COUNTRY CHECKUP on CBC Radio and CBC News Network. Born in Trinidad and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick, his major assignments have included the Exxon Valdez oil spill and San Francisco earthquake (both in 1989), the Los Angeles riot (1992), Vancouver's two Stanley Cup riots (1994 and 2011), the Hong Kong handover (1997) the Slave Lake Alberta wildfire (2011), the Humboldt bus crash (2018) and seven Olympic Games. His work has won a Canadian Journalism Award, Canadian Screen Award, Justicia Award from the Canadian Bar Association for Excellence in Legal Journalism, the 2008 Gemini for Best News Anchor, and the 2016 Canadian Screen Award for Best National News Anchor.
