SEAMUS O’REGAN
Co-host of CTV’s Canada AM
Seamus O'Regan is the co-host of CTV’s Canada AM. He is from St. John's, Newfoundland, and was raised in Goose Bay, Labrador.
O’Regan 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 of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, England.
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.
In 2000, O'Regan joined talktv's current affairs programme, "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 US President Bill Clinton, former Prime Minister Paul Martin, Desmond Tutu, Shania Twain, William Shatner and 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.
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. In December of 1999, O’Regan was named by Maclean's magazine as one of 100 "Young Canadians to Watch" in the new century.
