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Lloyd Robertson (born 1934 in Stratford, Ontario) is the anchor of Canada's nightly CTV National News. Before he joined CTV in 1976, Robertson anchored rival CBC's The National, and before that, in the late 1960s, he hosted a show called "CBC Weekend". From 1976 to 1984, Robertson co-anchored the CTV News with the late Harvey Kirck . When Kirck left CTV in 1984, Robertson became the senior news anchor for CTV. Robertson has covered many major events throughout his career, including several Olympic Games, Terry Fox, the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution, both the 1980 and 1995 Quebec referendums on separation from Canada, many federal elections, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the terrorist attacks of 9/11The attacks of September 11, 2001 were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. Nineteen members of the al-Qaida militant Islamist group hijacked four aircraft. They crashed two into the two towers of the, and the power outage crisisA massive power outage produced a blackout in parts of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada on August 14, 2003. Although not affecting as many people as the later 2003 Italy blackout, it was the largest blackout in North American history. on both sides of the border.Robertson's signature ending of each news broadcast is,"...and that's the kind of day it's been.".
Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty ( June 21, 1941) is famous for his part in the troupe of SCTV (later known as SCTV Network . Born in Pittsburgh, Flaherty emigrated to Toronto, Canada to start his comedy career with the Toronto Second City theatre troupe. He spent eight year parodied him as the newscaster Floyd Robertson on the comedy program SCTVSecond City Television or SCTV was a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from the Toronto troupe of The Second City. The show's cast included John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis an.
Robertson, Lloyd
Robertson, Lloyd
Robertson, Lloyd
Robertson, Lloyd
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