Alan Carter
Anchor, Global News at 5:30 and 6 / Host, Focus Ontario / Host, The Alan Carter Radio Program
Alan Carter has been the anchor of Global Toronto’s flagship newscast, Global News at 5:30 & 6 since 2015.
In addition to anchoring Global News at 5:30 & 6, Carter hosts Focus Ontario.
After graduating from Ryerson University in 1989, Carter began his journalism career as an anchor and producer for CKVU in Vancouver. While there, he covered the 1994 Stanley Cup playoff riots and was tear-gassed alongside unruly rioters, all in the name of getting the story.
After moving to Edmonton in 1997, Carter anchored for A-Channel News. Missing his family in Ontario, he moved home to Toronto in 1999 to join the Global Toronto team as a crime reporter, covering everything from local shootings to the police taser debate. To demonstrate the effects to viewers, Carter absorbed 50,000 volts after being tasered by Toronto Police. In 2003, he made the jump to daytime television on Morning News, later becoming Global Toronto’s managing editor.
Carter served as Global News’ Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for five years, interviewing numerous cabinet ministers, opposition leaders and political guests. Carter continues to pursue his passion for politics by hosting the weekly public affairs show, Focus Ontario, covering the biggest issues in Queen’s Park.
When he’s not covering the news, you’ll find Carter exploring the incredible Ontario outdoors — on his mountain bike, his snowboard or his longboard. When it’s time to come inside, Carter likes to shuffle things up with some poker — and that’s no bluff.
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Video Archives
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Focus Ontario: Protecting Ontario from Cyber Attacks
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Focus Ontario: Ontario Budget 2024
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Focus Ontario: The Jewel by the Lake
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Focus Ontario: Charged About Batteries
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Global News at 5:30 Toronto: March 14, 2024
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Global News at 5:30 Toronto: March 13, 2024
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Opioid Crisis in Belleville
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Focus Ontario: Ford and the Bench
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Focus Ontario: Back to the House
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Global News at 5:30 Toronto: Feb. 23, 2024
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Global News at 5:30 Toronto: February 19, 2024
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Focus Ontario: Ontario Post Secondary Blues
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Focus Ontario: Trouble in Sioux Lookout
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Global News at 5:30 Toronto: Feb. 9, 2024
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Global News at 5:30 Toronto: Feb. 8, 2024
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Global News at 5:30 Toronto: Feb. 7, 2024
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Global News at 5:30 Toronto: Feb. 5, 2024
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Focus Ontario: Cannabis Consolidation
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Looking for Toronto’s Deal
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Global News turns 50: A trip down memory lane!
Author Archives
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Alan Carter: Takeaway from interviewing the top candidates to be Toronto mayorThrough the Toronto mayoral election campaign, Global News interviewed the leading candidates at a locale of their choice; most stayed close to home. This is what we learned.CanadaJun 25, 2023
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Toronto election: Olivia Chow touts her experience in Global News interviewFirst elected as city councillor, then as member of Parliament, people in Toronto know Olivia Chow's name. That's not something that can be said of all mayoral candidates.CanadaJun 23, 2023
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Toronto election: Anthony Furey vows ‘common sense’ solutions if elected mayorWhat worries Anthony Furey is what he says is happening in his neighbourhood and others.CanadaJun 22, 2023
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Toronto election: Mark Saunders says the city needs ‘discipline’ in Global News interview'Toronto needs discipline' new mayor hopeful Mark Saunders tells Global News' Alan Carter during an interview at a cafe in Regent Park.CanadaJun 22, 2023
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Toronto election: Mitzie Hunter says the city needs change in Global News interviewMayor candidate Mitzie Hunter says she would bring a different set of experiences to city hall if elected. 'I bring a combination of what's needed at the city right now.'CanadaJun 21, 2023
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Toronto election: Brad Bradford vows to be a ‘mayor of action’ in Global News interview"I will be a strong mayor of action," Bradford told Global News as he sits down for a conversation in a gastropub on Danforth Avenue near Woodbine Avenue in Toronto's east end.CanadaJun 20, 2023
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Toronto election: Josh Matlow pushes affordability in Global News interviewWhen asked what his central pitch is to Toronto voters, Matlow answers, "I will be trustworthy and I will deliver a plan that can be paid for."PoliticsJun 20, 2023
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Toronto election: Ana Bailao makes her pitch for mayor on Global News'I want to make life easier and more affordable for people,' Toronto mayoral candidate Ana Bailão tells Global's Alan Carter in a sit down interview.PoliticsJun 19, 2023
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Toronto’s Farah Khan, 5, remembered 20 years after her murder by those who never knew herThe partial remains of five-year-old Farah Khan were discovered at Colonel Samuel Smith Park. The little girl's father and stepmother were later convicted of her murder.CrimeDec 10, 2019
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ANALYSIS: Premier Doug Ford’s new leafAfter starting 2019 as a disruptor, Premier Doug Ford now appears to be striving for the middle of the road.PoliticsDec 7, 2019
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Analysis: Local candidates face uphill battle for voter attentionRecent polling by Ipsos shows that only 16 per cent of voters said their local candidate is the primary factor determining how they vote.CanadaOct 7, 2019
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Toronto Raptors look to ruin Oakland’s goodbye party for Golden State WarriorsOakland Mayor Libby Schaaf wants one more championship ring before the Warriors move to San Francisco.SportsJun 7, 2019
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Despite budget cuts, Ford ‘guarantees’ anyone who needs legal aid will get it“If anyone needs support on legal aid, feel free to call my office. I will guarantee you that you will have legal aid,” Ford told Global News Radio.PoliticsApr 22, 2019
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‘It was a coordinated effort’: Patrick Brown discusses end as PC leader, grudges in new bookPatrick Brown speaks with Global News anchor Alan Carter before Brown's new book, Takedown: The Attempted Political Assassination of Patrick Brown, is released on Thursday.PoliticsNov 14, 2018
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ANALYSIS: ‘Pushgate’ pushes Queen’s Park into toddler territoryDonna Skelly says Andrea Horwath pushed her, but Horwath says it was a tap. It's the latest incident in an increasingly partisan and nasty Ontario legislature.CommentaryOct 19, 2018
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Focus Ontario: Premier Ford ‘thrives in chaos’ and don’t expect him to change his styleToronto Star Queen's Park Bureau Chief Robert Benzie discusses Doug Ford's first 100 days in power as well as the wins and losses for Ontario's new government.PoliticsOct 12, 2018
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ANALYSIS: Legal costs to defend Doug Ford government agenda will be worth it, PC house leader saysOn the season debut of Focus Ontario, Government House Leader Todd Smith admitted some of the moves by the government will come with a price tag.PoliticsSep 6, 2018
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ANALYSIS: Andrea Horwath blooms early in election campaign, but will it help Doug Ford?Unlike her first two campaigns as leader in 2011 and 2014, this time Andrea Horwath looks ready for the attention.PoliticsMay 16, 2018
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ANALYSIS: Could the Ontario 2018 budget be Kathleen Wynne’s last?Surviving in politics requires a mix of ideology and opportunism, and Kathleen Wynne’s election budget delivers big time on both.PoliticsMar 28, 2018
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Anti-violence advocate Louise Russo seeking provincial Liberal nomination in Toronto ridingRusso told Global News Wednesday that she is seeking the provincial York Centre Liberal nomination in order to run in the June election.PoliticsMar 7, 2018
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Doug Ford calls for Ontario PC Party leadership voting to be extended, use of paper ballotsFord said at a news conference Monday he would like to see in-person voting sessions in all provincial ridings. He also said he wants candidates to ask party officials "to extend this vote for another week" so all members to vote.PoliticsMar 5, 2018
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Thousands of Ontario PC members may not be able to register in time for leadership voteGlobal News has learned that 10,000 party registration letters were delayed by six or seven days in being mailed out, which means thousands of members who paid a $10 membership fee may not be able to vote in the leadership contest.PoliticsFeb 28, 2018
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ANALYSIS: Can Doug Ford win the Ontario PC Party leadership?Now, all eyes are on the Donald Trump-ish candidacy of former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford.PoliticsJan 31, 2018
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ANALYSIS: Ontario politics goes boom amid Patrick Brown sexual misconduct allegationsTo call the last 24 hours in Ontario politics a bombshell is to compare a meteor shower to the space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs.PoliticsJan 25, 2018
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ANALYSIS: Wynne says Ontario ballot question will be ‘uncertainty’In the face of this uncertainty should the people of the province seek change? Wynne sidesteps the question.PoliticsDec 19, 2017