{{short description|German-Canadian television news anchor (1930–2023)}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2014}} '''Abraham Douglas Driediger''' (17 February 1930 – 21 March 2023) was a German-born Canadian television news anchor and journalist. He was CTV’s Parliamentary Bureau Chief and co-anchored the first CTV National News program with Baden Langdon (later with Peter Jennings) in November 1962.<ref name="Nolan, 2001">{{cite book |last=Nolan |first=Michael |date=December 1, 2001 |title=CTV, the network that means business |url=https://archive.org/details/ctvnetworkthatme00nola |url-access=registration |publisher=University of Alberta |isbn=9780888643841 |accessdate=2014-09-02}}</ref><ref name=CTV_Ottawa>{{cite web |url=http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/about/about-us-1.815698 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630191804/http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/about/about-us-1.815698 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 30, 2012 |title=About us |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=18 October 2013 |website=CTV Ottawa |accessdate=2014-09-02}}</ref> In 1967, he moved to CBC News where he produced documentaries and was a foreign correspondent based in Moscow until 1972, when he returned to Canada and was a national correspondent based in Edmonton and Vancouver. In 1980, he accepted a teaching position at the University of Regina School of Journalism. He also helped establish the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation in what is now Nunavut before retiring to run the family's cattle and horse ranch. In 1989, he left the ranch and moved to Kelowna.<ref>{{cite web | title=Broadcasters We Lost in 2023 | date=27 December 2023 | url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/broadcasters-we-lost-in-2023/ }}</ref>
Douglas died on 21 March 2023, at the age of 93.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DRIEDIGER, Abram Douglas |url=https://www.springfieldfuneralhome.com/obituaries/driediger-abram-douglas/ |access-date=2025-09-22 |website=Springfield Funeral Home & Crematorium » Kelowna |language=en}}</ref>
== Writings == *{{cite book |last=Douglas |first=Ab |date=May 22, 2002 |title=No Dancing God: Mennonite stories |location=Markham |publisher=Fitzhenry & Whiteside |edition=2nd |isbn=978-1550566154}} *{{cite book |last=Douglas |first=Ab |date=August 15, 1993 |title=On foreign assignment: The inside story of journalism's elite corps |location=Alberta |publisher=University of Alberta Press |isbn=978-1550590579}}
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