Personal Life

Alison was born to Bruce Smith at Osoyoos in British Columbia. Her father Bruce served as a Guidance Counselor. In the year 1972, Alison did her schoolings at Southern Okanagan Secondary School that was very near to Oliver. Further she did her graduation at the Ryerson University in Toronto and University of British Columbia at Vancouver. Alison is a wonderful woman with excellent talents. Though she grew-up in a minor community, she was brought-up and grown with self-confidence and dignity. Alison had siblings as well, where her brother name is Randall and her sister name is Sandra.

Career

Alison gave her debut as a reporter in the year 1982 at Toronto. Since the year 2005 – 2009, Alison holds the responsibility as a correspondent of CBC Television’s Washington following David Halton. Following the Washington assignment, Alison served as the anchor of the morning show CBC News Morning and also she presented The National – yet another award winning show of CBC Network. Alison was an active participant and also the 1^st host to present a show called This Day at the CBC Newsworld. Later in the year 2009, Alison Smith served as the host of a program called The World at Six at the CBC Radio. She also took in-charge as the senior correspondent of CBC network, where she got multiple chances and opportunities to learn and sharpen her journalism skills and potentials.

At the beginning of her career Smith involved in covering stories relating the state political and municipal issues. Later during 1980’s Alison switched to CBC TV where she got the opportunity to cover many business and national affairs. The business newscast targeted in collecting assorted range of business news, which helped the public to gain intense knowledge about different business dealings. It was a kind of phone poll, where people contacted to gain business ideas and also got their queries clarified. Soon after turning as the news host at CBC Newsworld in the year 1989, Smith served as a reporter and anchor covering all significant and breaking events happening in and around Canada. Smith has presented plenty of news programs and a few of them will include, The Lead, The Day, Sunday Report, Newsworld Reports, CBC News Morning and many more. With all these, Smith has also hosted plenty of Live events such as Princess Diana’s Death, Auschwitz 60^th anniversary, Muti-racial election at South Africa and many more.

Prior examining her role at The World at Six, it encountered a fall in the year 2009 and Smith was the correspondent of CBC television Washington. Smith traveled across the United States of America and stayed there for 4 years time for covering the exceptional and most happening stories in the election of the American president Obama. She has captured and brought-forth many challenging coverage including the SAR’S outbreak, Columbian shuttle tragedy, Quebec Referendum and other federal elections too.