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CBCs Mansbridge to make stop on Parsons Court
signal -star publisher
Award-winning broadcaster and iconic
Canadian news anchor and author, Peter
Mansbridge, will make a special appear-
ance at a Goderich Rotary Club charity
breakfast Monday, Dec. 14.
The local service club is expecting up
to 500 patrons for the breakfast featuring
Mansbridge at the Knights of Columbus
Hall on Parsons Court beginning at 7 a.m.
As well as being the morning's keynote
speaker, the CBC news anchor will also be
signing his latest book, Peter Mansbridge,
One on One, an eclectic collection of re-
vealing and personal interviews with some
of Canada's and the world's movers and
shakers from US President Barack Obama
and the world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates,
to Canadian legends Gordon Lightfoot and
Sidney Crosby.
One of the newest recipients of the coun-
try's second highest civilian honour, the
Order of Canada, Mansbridge has been a
mainstay with the country's national broad-
caster, the CBC, since he took a radio job in
Churchill, Manitoba in 1969. Twenty years
later, he became anchor of The National, the
CBC's nightly national news broadcast.
Born in London, England in the after-
math of WWII, Mansbridge was educated
in Canada and left high school for a two-
year stint in the royal Canadian Navy in the
late sixties. It was while he was working
at the Churchill Airport in Manitoba that
he was recruited to work for a local radio
station by a radio executive who head his
voice make a flight announcement. That
chance encounter led to a stellar 40 -year
Photo used with appreciation
Award-winning broadcaster and iconic
Canadian news anchor and author,
Peter Mansbridge, will make a special
appearance at a Goderich Rotary Club
charity breakfast Monday, Dec. 14.
career with the national broadcaster.
In 1971 he moved to Winnipeg as a re-
porter for CBC Radio and in 1972 he joined
CBC television and became the National's
reporter in Saskatchewan. One year later
he became a parliamentary correspondent
in Ottawa.
His work in Ottawa earned Mansbridge a
number of substitute sessions as the anchor
for Knowlton Nash and in 1998, as Mans -
bridge was reportedly set to take a promi-
nent position with US broadcaster CBS,
Nash voluntarily gave up his position as
anchor so Mansbridge could be promoted.
In his twenty years as anchor of The
National and during his 40 -year career,
Mansbridge has provided comprehensive
coverage of the most significant stories in
Canada and around the world.
He anchored coverage of many world
events such as the Gulf War, the war in Ko-
sovo and the tragic events around Septem-
ber 11, 2001. He was on air live when the
2003 invasion of Iraq began and anchored
the coverage. On the scene, he anchored
coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and
Pope John Paul 11, a number of royal and
presidential visits to Canada, numerous
Olympic Games and the inauguration of
President Obama. He has reported exten-
sively on D -Day and V E Day ceremonies
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