![]() They had a huge argument, and it turned out both were wrong because Tom Wolfe was the one who wrote it. When it came to finding the author of the book, one said it was Kurt Vonnegut and the other Jack Kerouac. The story began like this on their first date: They are having a conversation about a book, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The opposite was the case on their first meeting as they could not agree on even one of the conversation topics. The couple first met each other in the year 1984 through some of their friends who thought that they would make a lovely couple. The wedding ceremony was attended by their closest friends and tons of family members. Gord Martineau is married to his longtime girlfriend, Sharon, who is a now a freelance writer for a tennis magazine, on 27 August 1988, at Trinity United Church in Kirkland Lake, Ont., the same church at which Sharon’s parents, Gayle and Ed Havrot were married 63 years ago. Talking about the average salary of the journalist in Canada, it is C$41,074 per year. However, the exact figure of his net worth remains confined to the media. Martineau has also been awarded a Gemini Award for “Canada’s Best News Anchor,” a Gemini Humanitarian Award, and an R TNDA Canada Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.īeing working as a television journalist for more than forty years, Gord surely earns a whopping amount of salary from his broadcasting career. In the year 2012, he was recognized with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. He played a similar role in the 2012 web series Guidestones.Īfter working for different TV Stations, he finally worked for Citytv, where he joined in 1977 and ended in 2016, and has become one of Toronto’s best-loved TV anchors.ĭuring his time at City, Gord Martineau has received many respected awards honoring his work including 2014 Canadian Screen Award for “Best Local Newscast” for CityNews at 6. Gord Martineau has also made his appearance as a news anchor in a few movies filmed in Toronto, including Undue Influence, Dirty Work, and Urban Legend. ![]() Also, he was there with CJCH-TV in Halifax and CFCF-TV in Montreal and then headed to Toronto. ![]() Gord, who stands at the decent height, worked briefly in CJAD, an AM radio station based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in Montreal. He covered the biggest local stories of the time, from Terry Fox’s heroic marathon run to international affairs including Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan and the events surrounding former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Currently, he is of 70 years of age.Ī Montreal native started his career with City back in 1977 as an anchor of CityPulse. The Canadian journalist was born in 1947 and celebrates his birthday on 23 September every year. ![]() Gord Martineau’s Short Bio: Career, Net Worth It has been thirty years since their marriage, but still, they are deeply in love with each other. Gord Marineau is a Canadian television journalist, is a happily married man. He has also won a Lifetime Achievement Awards for his 40 long years in the broadcasting field by RTNDA. A strong partnership was formed and today Gord does his best to support GlobalMedic’s mission of saving lives.One of the longest-serving TV journalists in Canada, and having a career spanning almost forty years, Gord Martineau finally signed off from his anchoring job on 29 February 2016. ![]() Together Rahul and Gord have been to numerous countries including Cambodia, and Thailand. Gord is on the Board of Directors for GlobalMedic, and has seen its rise since Executive Director, Rahul Singh, was just a paramedic hosting BBQ’s and selling t-shirts to raise the funds to personally respond to the desperate needs around the world. GlobalMedic has responded to 191 disasters in 67 countries, including earthquakes in Ecuador, Haiti, Japan and Nepal tsunamis in Japan and Sri Lanka typhoons in the Philippines and Taiwan hurricanes in Grenada and Guatemala cyclones in India, Myanmar and Vanuatu floods in Bangladesh, Mexico and Pakistan drought and famine in Kenya and Mauritania epidemics in Liberia and Sierra Leone and complex emergencies in Gaza, Iraq, Mali, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen. GlobalMedic is a registered Canadian charity that runs capacity building programs and provides disaster relief services to large-scale catastrophes around the world. ![]()
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