Host Biography
Peter Armstrong, host of CBC Radio's World Report.
Peter Armstrong
Peter Armstrong is the new host of World Report, Canada's most-listened-to radio news program.
Prior to that, Armstrong was a foreign correspondent for CBC Television and CBC Newsworld, based in Jerusalem. An award-winning journalist, he has covered three wars and reported in French and English from four continents. Armstrong has reported from the frontlines in Afghanistan, embedded with Canadian, U.S. and British Troops. He has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, travelling throughout Israel, The West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He also reported live from Barack Obama's ancestral village in Kenya the night of the American presidential election in 2008.
Armstrong has worked in CBC locations across Canada, beginning in Quebec City with stops in Saint John, Toronto, Ottawa's Parliamentary Bureau and Vancouver. His coverage of news stories in Canada and the United States includes the SARS outbreak, three federal elections, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Originally from Oakville, Ont., Armstrong is bilingual in French and English, and is now studying Arabic. He is a graduate of Acadia University in Nova Scotia and completed his journalism studies at l'Universite Laval in Quebec City.
Armstrong is married to Canadian journalist Piya Chattopadhyay.
World Headlines
- Underwear bomber sentenced to life in prison
- A Nigerian man who tried to blow up an international flight near Detroit on behalf of al-Qaida has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
- updated UN backs resolution condemning Syrian regime video
- The UN General Assembly has backed a non-binding Arab League-sponsored resolution calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and end his regime's violent crackdown on dissidents.
- Honduras prison fire is world's deadliest video
- The prisoners who died in the Honduran prison fire had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press.
- point of view Man who killed sons kept from being buried near them
- A Washington man who killed his two sons will be buried in the same cemetery as them following a huge public firestorm, his brother-in-law said Thursday.
- Amnesty accuses Libyan militias of unbridled torture video
- Armed militia groups in Libya have turned on one another and now rule most of the country, torturing their opponents with impunity, Amnesty International says.
