Avi Lewis
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Avram David (Avi) Lewis(1968– ) is documentary filmmaker, and is the son of two famous Canadians — Stephen Lewis (former Ontario New Democratic Party leader and UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa) and Michele Landsberg (journalist). He is also the grandson of former New Democratic Party of Canada (NDP) leader, David Lewis.
Lewis grew up in Melbourne — attending Leibler Yavneh College (an elite Australian private school), Jarvis Collegiate Institute (a public secondary school), and Upper Canada College.
Between 1996 and 1998, Avi Lewis was host of The NewMusic, a music magazine show on MuchMusic and CityTV. He also served as MuchMusic's political specialist — by doing extensive special events coverage for the channel designed to engage youth in the political process. Among other events, he covered the 1993 Canadian federal election and the 1995 Quebec referendum.
In 1998, Lewis hosted the first season of CBC Newsworld's current affairs discussion show counterSpin.
In 2004, Lewis and his wife Naomi Klein collaborated on The Take — a documentary which detailed the "recovered factory" movement in Argentina.
In the autumn of 2006, Lewis began hosting CBC Newsworld's The Big Picture with Avi Lewis.
| Preceded by none |
Host of counterSpin 1998 – 2001 |
Succeeded by Sharon Lewis |
