Peter Mansbridge

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Peter Mansbridge (born July 6, 1948) is an English-born retired news anchor who appeared on television.

He served as chief reporter for CBC News and anchor of The National, CBC Television's flagship nightly newscast from 1988 to 2017.

He appeared on CBC News Network's Mansbridge One on One.

Mansbridge has received many accolades and distinctions for his journalism, including an honorary doctorate from Mount Allison University, where he served as chancellor until 2017.

Following coverage of Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation revealed on September 5, 2016, Mansbridge would step down as chief reporter and anchor.

Early life

Mansbridge was born in London, England, on July 6, 1948. Stanley Harry Mansbridge, DFC (1918-2005), an RAF Wing Commander who served as a civil servant in England, Malaya, and Canada, and Brenda Louise Mansbridge (née Harris-Jones) died in 2008. During World War II, his father was given a DFC for his work as a navigator aboard an Avro Lancaster bomber. Harry Mansbridge, a grandfather of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Mansbridge attended high school at the Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, but before graduating Grade 12 in 1966, he dropped out or resigned. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1966 and 1967 as a Royal Canadian Navy Pilot Trainee (Venture Officer's Plan), but he was unable to attend because the 2-year RCN Officer training program required everyone joining the Navy to be a High School graduate.

Personal life

Mansbridge has been married three times. After his marriage ended, his former marriage to CBC colleague Wendy Mesley (January 6, 1989 – 1992) became a regular tabloid fodder in Frank magazine. He has been married to Canadian actress Cynthia Dale since November 14, 1998, and the couple also have a son, William, who was born in 1999. Mansbridge has two children from a first marriage to Parm Dhillon, which began in 1975. He and his family live in Stratford, Ontario, and they also have a summer cottage in the Gatineau Hills.

Mansbridge collects small souvenirs from his travels around the world, including rocks, soil, and other "sentimental" items from many prominent historical sites. He reminisced about his visit to the Battle of Dieppe in France, dirt from Vimy Ridge, and sand from Normandy's beaches, as well as pieces of the Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China. On his return to South Africa for Nelson Mandela's funeral, he bought a silver bracelet that only has the numerals "46664" engraved. Mandela's prisoner number on Robben Island is 4864.

Mansbridge was also a longtime fan of the Winnipeg Jets, having attended Bobby Hull's signing in 1972 while working as a reporter for CBWT. Mansbridge's public endorsement for the Jets, as well as his use of his Twitter handle, is often seen as a humourous complement to his balanced reporting style. Mansbridge is also known to make jokes about the Toronto Maple Leafs' expense, which is intended to underline this photograph. Despite this, he continues to help his childhood Maple Leafs in a secondary capacity.

As "Peter Moosebridge," an anthropomorphic moose news anchor, Mansbridge appeared in the 2016 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Zootopia. In his honor, a space in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto was renamed Mansbridge Hall in honor of his final broadcast in 2017.

Mansbridge has hosted The Bridge, a daily podcast since the 2019 Canadian federal election.

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Newscasting career

At Churchill Airport in Churchill, Manitoba, Mansbridge served as a ticket agent for Transair. When Mansbridge was made by a flight manager for the local Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio station CHFC, he was stunned. Charpentier has recruited Glenn Mansbridge, 19, as the host of CHFC's late night music program. Mansbridge moved to Winnipeg in 1971 to work as a reporter for the CBW radio station, and as a reporter, he joined CBW-TV in the new year.

In 1975, Mansbridge became a reporter in Saskatchewan for the CBC's flagship evening news program The National. In 1976, he moved to Ottawa to become a parliamentary reporter. Following a decade of political coverage, Mansbridge had been a replacement anchor for Knowlton Nash, and CBS had offered him a job as a co-anchor for a morning show in 1988. Nash left Mansbridge, Canada, to continue his anchoring duties at the CBC.

Mansbridge was also the announcer of CBC News' This Week In Parliament (1981-1993), which was hosted by colleague Don Newman; Mansbridge provided the voice-over for the program's opening, intro, and end.

Mansbridge debuted as the sole anchor of The National on May 1, 1988. Mansbridge returned to CBC Prime Time News in 1992, co-anchor with Pamela Wallin of CBC Prime Time News, which renamed The National as the program's top network newscast; when the newscast renamed The National in 1995, he resumed his position as the program's sole anchor.

During his tenure as anchor, he has covered Canadian news events, including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord and its referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1998, the death and state funeral of Jack Layton, and the emergence and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau in northern North America. Mansbridge's coverage of the blackout was especially noteworthy because he had grown a beard during his summer hiatus (as he did every summer), and there was no time for him to shave. Consequently, Canadian viewers caught a bearded Peter Mansbridge commenting on the day's events.

In addition, he has anchored coverage of many international events, both in the studio and on the ground. He anchors coverage of the Gulf War, the War in Kosovo, the September 11 attacks, and the 2014 Parliament Hill shootings. When the 2003 Iraqi invasion of Iraq began and anchored coverage, he was on the air live. On the scene, he anchored coverage of the Berlin Wall, the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Pope John Paul II, as well as the inauguration of US President Barack Obama. For the fiftieth anniversary of V-E Day, he covered Normandy for 50 and then 60 years after D-Day, as well as from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. He also reported from the Netherlands for the sixtieth anniversary of V-E Day.

In 1999, he launched Mansbridge One on One, a one-on-one program in which he interviewed journalists.

Mansbridge became Canada's longest-serving television anchor after retiring Lloyd Robertson of CTV National News on September 1, 2011, when Dawna Friesen took over as anchor at Global National News only in 2010. Mansbridge is the only male chief anchor on Canada's major three English networks, with Lisa LaFlamme and Friesen taking over for Robertson.

Brent Rathgeber, a Conservative Member of Parliament, had doubts about Peter Mansbridge's compensation in 2011 after he was asked. Although Mansbridge could disclose his compensation on his own initiative, the Canadian Government could not be compelled to do so, according to former Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore. Peter Mansbridge earned $80,000 per year, according to a paper submitted by the CBC in 2014 by the Canadian Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications, who reported that he earned $80,000 per year. Four CBC "on-air" employees made more than $100,000 per year, according to the CBC's website later this year, meaning Peter Mansbridge was most likely in this group of four (the average salary of these four employees was $485,667 per year). Although the CBC still publishes a Compensation Report online, it does not include prior years; however, some screen captures of the 2014 compensation study have been published by media outlets. Peter Mansbridge's salary, as well as additional remunerations on top of his base salary, was around $1.1 million a year before 2014, according to an anonymous source. Despite being screen caught of Mansbridge's suspected employment file and salary figures, Mansbridge has strongly denied the accuracy of the $1.1 million per year salary figure.

Mansbridge was chastised for charging speaking fees in 2014. Mansbridge defended himself by saying he gave about 20 speeches each year, many of which were unpaid, and that he often donates a portion of the proceeds to charity. Nonetheless, he had paid a visit to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), a lobby group that supports the pro-oil-sands-development side of the discussion. Even if it was only as a speaking fee, media commentators expressed disappointment in accepting compensation from an agency that was clearly trying to influence public policy. Mansbridge was the second CBC employee to have received money from outside companies for speaking fees. Rex Murphy of CBC's Cross Country Check-up was the first to feature this article. Hubert Lacroix, the CBC president, defended the program, saying that the CBC was aware of the speaking engagements and payments and that they had been pre-vetted for any potential conflict of interest. Following the scandal, the CBC updated its policies. Mansbridge was paid by the CBC in 2016 for missing money from speaking fees; Mansbridge refutes this assertion.

After anchoring CBC's Canada Day coverage on the country's 150th anniversary, Mansbridge announced his departure from hosting The National and resigned as Chief Correspondent of CBC News. On June 30, 2017, he made his final television broadcast from The National on June 30, 2017; and on July 1, 2017, he announced his retirement.

Mansbridge Undertook a 17-stop cross-Canada storytelling tour from October to December 2017. However, all 17 of the performances were postponed.

Since his demise, he appeared on CBC radio, including as a guest co-host on CBC's coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding in May 2018 and as a guest contributor for the 2019 federal election.

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