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Host
Anna Maria Tremonti joins
The Current after two years as a correspondent and host
on CBC TV's flagship investigative program "the fifth
estate". She has spent much of her career roaming the
country and the world for the CBC. Between 1991 and
2000 Anna Maria filed regular news and documentary reports
for CBC Television from a rotating cast of international
home bases: Berlin, London, Jerusalem, and Washington.
She has covered conflict and crisis in more than 30
countries, providing the CBC with eyewitness accounts
of the war in Bosnia, the Arab-Israeli conflict and
the break-up of the Soviet Union.
A native of Windsor, Ontario, Anna Maria’s career began
in radio. She joined CBC as host of the morning radio
program in Fredericton, New Brunswick, then moved to
Edmonton to work as a legislative reporter. She followed
this with a four year stint in the nation’s capital,
pursuing political high-jinx on Parliament Hill.
For her work as a journalist Anna Maria has won two
Gemini awards, and an outstanding achievement award
from Toronto Women in Film and Television. She also
received an honourary doctorate from the University
of Windsor, the very school where she completed her
undergrad. She has behind her a string of partially
learned languages—French, German and Arabic—which she
uses to great and mysterious effect while lounging on
the decks of international ocean liners.
The Current marks a happy return to her radio roots.
Anna Maria Tremonti profoundly hopes not to have to
book a moving van any time soon.
Friday Host - Kevin Sylvester
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Kevin Sylvester
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Kevin Sylvester is not your average sportscaster. He has a B.A. in Philosophy and English (with a minor in Latin) from St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, and he's currently working on a degree in Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Kevin Sylvester has been with CBC National Radio Sports for over a decade. During his tenure, he has been a reporter, producer, documentary-maker, writer and host. He's written two radio plays, "Shadrin has Scored for Russia" - a spoof of the 1972 summit series of hockey - and "Rink of the Living Dead." He has also turned "Shadrin" into a best-selling book published by Stoddart in 2001, complete with his own illustrations. His latest book, "Sports Hall of Weird" published by KidsCan Press, has been nominated for a Silver Birch Award by the Ontario Library Association.
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