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Chin's father was a South Korean diplomat and spent a decade moving around the world. From 1970 to 1974 the Chins were in Ottawa. After his father's Canadian posting, Ben Chin decided to stay in Canada. After completing high school in Ottawa, Chin went to the University of Toronto, but left without graduating in 1986 to become a novelist. After stints as a bartender, cab driver and other odd jobs, Chin met his future wife Barb Ustina in 1987 and with her guidance changed career and turned to journalism. Chin joined Citytv and was an anchor and reporter from 1989 to 1997. He headed east to the Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax as Atlantic Bureau Chief for CTV News. In 1998 he returned to Toronto and joined CBC Newsworld. In September, 2003, he joined CKXT|Toronto 1 as co-anchor with Sarika Sehgal of the station's nightly newscast. After Toronto 1's buyout by CHUM Limited, the station was on a decline. On June 2, 2005, following CKXT's cancellation of its news programming, Chin was named senior correspondent for the Global Television Network's Global National. On July 21, before Chin had ever appeared on Global National, he left the network and joined the communications staff of Ontario Premier of Ontario|Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Category:1964 births|Chin, Ben Category:Canadian television journalists|Chin, Ben Category:Canadian political strategists|Chin, Ben Category:Chinese Canadians|Chin, Ben This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ben Chin".
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