- Gord Martineau
Gord Martineau (born
September 23 ,1948 inMontreal ,Quebec ) is a Canadian televisionjournalist .Martineau is the senior co-anchor of
Citytv 's "CityNews " (formerly "CityPulse") newscast inToronto . He has been with the station since its inception, except for a few weeks in 1980 when he moved toGlobal Television Network as a news co-anchor forCIII . The job did not work out, so Martineau returned to "CityPulse". He also briefly worked forCFTO-TV in Toronto around that time, and before coming to CITY, he was the weekend anchor of "Pulse" onCFCF-TV in Montreal.Martineau has also appeared in a few movies as a news anchor, including "
Undue Influence ", "Dirty Work", and "Urban Legend".In April 2007, Gord Martineau received a lifetime achievement award for 40 years in broadcasting. 30 of those years were at his current home, Citytv Toronto.
Noted for outstanding charity work, Gord Martineau has been associated with the Kidney Foundation, the Kid's Helpline, the Fred Victor Centre, the Breast Cancer Foundation, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Ireland Fund and most notably, the Herbie Fund where he has personally escorted children in need of life-saving surgery from countries as far away as the Philippines to superlative care at the Hospital for Sick Children.
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* [http://www.citytv.com/toronto/personalities_GordMartineau.aspx Martineau's CityNews bio]
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