Canada Now - Definition and Overview

Canada Now is a news program on the main English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The show was created to replace the regular supper-hour newscasts on the CBC's owned-and-operated local television stations in 2000, as a result of cuts to the CBC's budget.

The hour-long newscast is divided into two thirty-minute sub-programs. One is national in scope, and is anchored by Ian Hanomansing; the other is regional, varying from station to station, anchored by the stations' local anchors, just like the previous local newscasts.

The national half of Canada Now is also broadcast on CBC Newsworld and is paired with a half-hour current affairs Newsworld edition hosted by Kathleen Petty in Calgary. Some of the regional portions are also seen on the CBC's digital specialty channel Country Canada. CBC's privately-owned affiliates do not broadcast Canada Now; instead they produce their own local newscasts.

Regional Anchors

• CBAT (Saint John): Anita Sharma (previous anchor: Geoff Britt)
• CBCT (Charlottetown): Bruce Rainnie (previous anchor: Roger Younker)
• CBET (Windsor): Susan Pedler (previous anchor: Blake Roberts)
• CBHT (Halifax): Norma Lee MacLeod (previous anchor: Linda Kelly)
• CBKT (Regina): Costa Maragos
• CBLT (Toronto): Diana Swain (previous anchors: Monica Kim, Ben Chin, Carole MacNeil)
• CBMT (Montreal): Dennis Trudeau
• CBNT (St. John's): Debbie Cooper
• CBOT (Ottawa): Rita Celli (previous anchor: Peter Van Dusen)
• CBRT (Calgary): David Gray (previous anchor: Kathleen Petty)
• CBUT (Vancouver): Gloria Macarenko
• CBWT (Winnipeg): Krista Erickson (previous anchors: Jennifer Rattray, Diana Swain)
• CBXT (Edmonton): Portia Clark (previous anchor Helen Mann)
• CBC North: Carol Morin (previous anchor: Paul Andrew)
• CBC Newsworld: Kathleen Petty

Macarenko is also a substitute anchor in the national portion of Canada Now.

External link

• Canada Now (http://www.cbc.ca/canadanow/)