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Seamus O’Regan, Co-Host, CANADA AM
He is from St. John's, Newfoundland, and was raised in Goose Bay, Labrador. Seamus studied politics at St. Francis Xavier University and University College, Dublin, and marketing strategies at INSEAD, the international business school near Paris. He received his Master's of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge. His journalistic career began, prematurely, at the age of 10, when he became a regional correspondent for CBC Radio's national youth program, "Anybody Home." His interviews ranged from a professor hunting for giant squid to one woman's fight against leukemia. In 2000, Seamus joined talktv's current affairs program, "the chatroom." His experience at that groundbreaking program prepared him for the pace of CANADA AM, where he began as Co-Host in 2002. On CANADA AM, he has interviewed such newsmakers as former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Paul Martin, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Shania Twain, William Shatner, Conrad Black and the artist formerly known as Prince. He is one of the few journalists to have interviewed four former Prime Ministers – Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, John Turner and Joe Clark – together. Canada’s pre-eminent morning programme has taken him across the country and around the world, from NORAD headquarters inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado to Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. A good sport, he’s trained (briefly) with the Cirque de Soleil and piloted (very briefly!) a CF-18 jet fighter. In 2007, Seamus led CTV’s extensive coverage of Live Earth and the Concert for Diana. He hosted three times, The Giller Prize, Canadian fiction's most coveted literary award, as well as the 2006 special "The Next Great Prime Minister." In 2007, Seamus became the first journalist to be named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40. In 1999, he was named to Maclean's magazine’s 100 "Young Canadians to Watch" in the new century. He has been twice nominated for a Gemini Award; in 2004 for the Viewers' Choice Award and in 2005 for Best Host or Interviewer in a News Information Program or Series. He has worked as an assistant to Environment Minister Jean Charest in Ottawa and to Justice Minister Edward Roberts in St. John's, and was policy advisor and speechwriter to the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Brian Tobin. Seamus serves on the boards of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada, The Rooms - which houses the Provincial Art Gallery, Museum, and Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador - and The Company Theatre group in Toronto. He serves as a Honourary Advisor to Shallaway - Newfoundland and Labrador Youth in Chorus - and the Coady International Institute of St. Francis Xavier University. In May of 2008, Seamus traveled to Liberia as an Ambassador for the Spread the Net campaign, combating malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. In February 2009 Seamus went to Antarctica to study the effects of climate change with Students On Ice. |
Seamus O'Regan is the co-host of CTV's CANADA AM, Canada's #1 national morning show. O’Regan will be an integral part of CANADA AM’s broadcast team for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.