Signature Series 2003

David Halton          Streaming audio clip
      One of Canada's most acclaimed journalists, David Halton has been with CBC Television for nearly 35 years. He became the senior correspondent in Washington in 1991 after 13 years as the chief political correspondent in Ottawa. Over the years, he has covered elections, political conventions, budgets, first ministers' conferences, Commonwealth conferences, world leaders' summits and a host of major national and international political stories.
      In the 2002-2003 season, Halton reported frequently from New York on the acrimonious debates over Iraq in the UN Security Council. He also chronicled U.S. military preparations for the war and reported daily on the Pentagon's war strategy once the war was underway. Another focus of Halton's reporting was the growing tensions between Washington and many of its allies over the assertive exercise of American power in Iraq and elsewhere.
      In 2001, Halton reported almost non-stop on Sept. 11 and its aftermath, the war on terrorism and the friendly fire tragedy that claimed the lives of four Canadians. He visited the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the controversial U.S. prison for Al-queda and Taliban captives.
      Born in Beaconsfield, England, during the Second World War, Halton was brought to Canada when he was two weeks old. His father, Matthew Halton, was a well-known CBC wartime and postwar correspondent. David Halton graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in modern history and also studied at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. His distinguished career in print journalism includes working as a reporter for The Ottawa Citizen and The Calgary Herald and serving as a contributing editor for Time magazine in Montreal.
      Halton joined CBC Television News in 1965. A year later, he became THE NATIONAL's Paris-based correspondent, reporting on the de Gaulle government, the Six-Day War in Israel and a coup in Greece. He was CBC's Moscow correspondent between 1967 and 1968 and, after returning to Paris in 1968, covered events in the Middle East and the war in Vietnam.
      In 1971, Halton became THE NATIONAL's reporter in Quebec and, three years later, returned to Europe as CBC's London correspondent. While based in London, Halton also reported from the Middle East and interviewed such leaders as Harold Wilson, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, King Hussein and Robert Mugabe.
      He returned to Canada to host several CBC news specials, such as The October Crisis, before accepting the position of chief political correspondent in Ottawa in 1978. He co-anchored CBC's coverage of every federal election from 1979 to 1988 and, since being assigned to Washington, has reported on such major stories as the 1992 presidential election, the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994, the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal and the subsequent impeachment proceedings. He also filed documentary reports from Haiti and Cuba prior to the Pope's 1998 visit.
      Halton is the president of the CBC Foreign Correspondents Association.

Signature Series 2001

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
      Charismatic and eloquent, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a leading environmental attorney and one of North America's most popular speakers.
      In his role of lawyer, he is the senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper program, and a clinical professor and supervising attorney at the Environmental Litigation clinic at Pace University School of Law.
      Credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply, he created a watershed agreement that is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations. On the national front, he was instrumental in helping defeat several anti-environmental bills during the 104th US. Congress.
      Also, the author of numerous articles and three books, including The Riverkeepers, which he co-wrote with Hudson Riverkeeper John Cronin, Kennedy is an impassioned and inspiring speaker. He touches the hearts of his listeners, encouraging them to join him in making the world a better place.

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