Anna Maria Tremonti (born July 2, 1957) is a

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who has been featured on a variety of radio and television programs on the

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. She has served as a senior reporter for '' The National'', where she won two

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s, and a host of '' The Fifth Estate'', where she won a Gracie Award. From 2002 until 2019, she hosted

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's morning news and current affairs program '' The Current''; in May 2019, she announced that she would retire from the program at the end of her 17th season, and transition to a new role creating and hosting two new CBC

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s. In November 2019, her first new podcast was announced, which was released in January 2020, as ''More With Anna Maria Tremonti''. Born in

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, she began her journalism career at the

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student newspaper, ''

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'', and the university's radio station, CJAM. Her later experiences included private broadcasting contracts in

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at CKEC Radio and

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before serving with the CBC in

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, Halifax,

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and Toronto. She also worked as a CBC

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, and was for several years the chief CBC correspondent in the

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. She is the partner of former Toronto city councillor John Filion. In February 2022, she published ''Welcome to Paradise'' on

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and in podcast format. ''Welcome to Paradise'' is an audio memoir of her earlier marriage to an abusive husband.Connie Thiessen
"New series from Anna Maria Tremonti, Tamara Khandaker headline CBC Podcasts’ winter slate"
''Broadcast Dialogue'', January 13, 2022.

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External links

Anna Maria Tremonti

''Welcome to Paradise''
(podcast site on

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CBC: More with Anna Maria Tremonti
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