Peter Mansbridge
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| Born | July 6, 1948 London, England, UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British, Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parents | Stanley Harry Mansbridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | • Parm Dhillon • Wendy Mesley • Cynthia Dale | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canadian news anchor who attended Bilderberg/2010
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Peter Mansbridge is a British-born Canadian retired news anchor. From 1988 to 2017, he was chief correspondent for CBC News and anchor of The National, CBC Television's flagship nightly newscast. He attended the 2010 Bilderberg meeting.
Early life
Mansbridge was born on July 6, 1948, in London, England.[1] He and his siblings Paul and Wendy were the children of Stanley Harry Mansbridge (1918–2005), an RAF Wing Commander[2] who worked as a civil servant in England, Malaya, and Canada; and Brenda Louise Mansbridge (née Harris-Jones, died 2008).[3]His grandfather Harry Mansbridge was Canadian and a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.[4]
After moving to Ottawa, Ontario, Mansbridge attended high school at the Glebe Collegiate Institute, but dropped out or quit before graduating Grade 12 in 1966. He next was in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1966 and 1967 as a Royal Canadian Navy Pilot Trainee (Venture Officer's Plan) but left because this 2 year RCN Officer training plan required everyone joining to be a High School graduate.
Career
Mansbridge worked as a ticket agent for Transair at Churchill Airport in Churchill, Manitoba. In 1968, Mansbridge was discovered by Gaston Charpentier, a station manager for the local Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio station CHFC, when he heard Mansbridge making a flight announcement. Charpentier hired the 19-year-old Mansbridge as the host of CHFC's late night music program.[5] In 1971, Mansbridge moved to Winnipeg to continue as a reporter for the CBC radio and in the next year, he joined TV as a reporter.
In 1975, Mansbridge became a reporter in Saskatchewan for the CBC's flagship evening news program The National. In 1976, he relocated to Ottawa to become parliamentary correspondent.[5] Following a decade of political coverage, Mansbridge had become a substitute anchor for Knowlton Nash and in 1988, CBS offered him a job as a co-anchor for a morning show. To keep Mansbridge in Canada, Nash retired from his anchoring duties at the CBC.[6]
On May 1, 1988, Mansbridge debuted as the sole anchor of The National. In 1992 he became co-anchor with Pamela Wallin of CBC Prime Time News, which replaced The National as CBC Television's main network newscast; when the newscast reverted to the name The National in 1995, Mansbridge resumed his role as the program's sole anchor.
During his tenure as anchor, he has covered Canadian news stories including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord negotiations, the Charlottetown Accord and its referendum, the 1995 Quebec referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1997, ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in 1998, the six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 2003 blackout across much of Eastern North America and the death and state funeral of Jack Layton.
He has also anchored coverage of many world events, both in the studio and on the scene. In the studio, he anchored coverage of the Gulf War, the War in Kosovo, the September 11 attacks and the 2014 Parliament Hill shootings. He was on the air live when the 2003 invasion of Iraq began and anchored coverage of it. On the scene, he anchored coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Pope John Paul II, numerous royal, papal, and US presidential visits to Canada, numerous Olympic Games, and the inauguration of US President Barack Obama.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2010 | 3 June 2010 | 6 June 2010 | Spain Hotel Dolce Sitges Barcelona | The 122 guests met in the Hotel Dolce Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2013 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
References
- ↑ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peter-mansbridge/
- ↑ CBC News (June 6, 2014). ""The National" CBC National News". CBC.
- ↑ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ottawacitizen/obituary.aspx?n=brenda-mansbridge&pid=10710426
- ↑ https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mansbridge/71/
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20150530031408/http://goodlifemississauga.com/102-gl-2010/mansbridge.html
- ↑ "Former CBC anchor Knowlton Nash dead at age 86". Press release. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/knowlton-nash-dead-at-86-cbc-reports/article18835269/. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
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