Ian Hanomansing

Ian Hanomansing is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is the anchor of the national portion of Canada Now, the CBC's supperhour newscast. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Hanomansing also co-hosts Hemispheres, a weekly international documentary program on CBC Newsworld, co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Hanomansing grew up in Sackville, New Brunswick, attending Mount Allison University for his undergraduate education. He also has a law degree from Dalhousie University. His broadcast media career began with CHMA, the student radio station at Mount Allison, followed by work at CKDH in nearby Amherst, Nova Scotia. He later 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 program Foreign Assignment.

As a reporter, Hanomansing has covered a number of stories, including the L.A. riots and the handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain. As an anchor, he anchored coverage of the power outage crisis on both sides of the border.