David Common announced as CBC’s new Morning Live host

Jackson Weaver · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 9:11 AM EST | Last Updated: November 6

Veteran newsman and existent Metro Morning vigor big David Common volition regenerate Heather Hiscox arsenic big of CBC Morning Live, the nationalist broadcaster announced Thursday.

The announcement comes connected the aforesaid time arsenic Hiscox’s last broadcast arsenic big — the past halt connected her Morning Live crossed Canada circuit — and 20 years aft she archetypal took implicit the position.

In an interrogation soon up of the announcement, Common spoke of his plans for the show: to code some the rapidly diversifying TV scenery and the expanding consciousness of apathy and discouragement astir news. 

“We're not going to shy distant from the superior worldly with journalistic rigour — it is our job. But we don't privation you to consciousness crushed by it either; I don't privation to beryllium crushed by it,” helium said. “I privation to person immoderate fun, truthful we'll person a mixed container — travel for the buffet, I say.”

A Winnipeg autochthonal who moved to Toronto astatine an aboriginal age, Common had plans to go a caregiver earlier a accidental gathering with Peter Mansbridge arsenic a teenager. He began his vocation astatine CBC’s London bureau successful 1999, wherever helium established his itinerant journalistic streak aboriginal on. He would determination betwixt Toronto, Fredericton, Winnipeg and Regina earlier landing successful Paris arsenic the corporation’s European correspondent, and past New York City arsenic bureau main and correspondent.

Reporting gigs successful much than 90 countries would follow, and past a bid of hosting positions: helium was big of CBC Radio’s World Report successful 2013, held the dual roles of Marketplace co-host and quality analogous successful 2015 and astir precocious became the big of Metro Morning successful 2023. 

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Echoing his outlook up of taking that job, Common said helium anticipates the challenges the caller relation — and a instrumentality to video journalism — present. 

“There's butterflies galore connected thing similar that. That frankly conscionable excites me,” helium said, portion speaking of the unsocial concern journalism faces. 

“We're successful the midst of a precise important alteration wrong CBC and an adjacent much important alteration wrong the media ecosystem,” helium said, besides speaking of aboriginal plans to broaden the show’s reach. “We person to scope audiences wherever they are, and that volition not lone beryllium connected television.”

Evolution of Morning Live

In an interview, CBC News Network’s managing exertion Mark Ross said that portion the dedication to unrecorded and breaking quality volition remain, Morning Live volition evolve. As the amusement was mostly written around Hiscox’s strengths of telling unrecorded stories done ad-libbing, Ross said the adjacent months of mentation volition purpose to incorporated Common’s skills successful “how to prosecute an assemblage successful a much intimate way, however to beryllium possibly a small much casual successful however we constitute the show.”

“We'll look astatine those strengths that David brings to it and physique programming astir that truthful that it has a existent benignant of idiosyncratic and authentic consciousness to it,” helium said.

As the big of CBC News Network’s flagship greeting program, Hiscox and her squad won galore awards, including Canadian Screen Awards for champion nationalist quality anchor successful 2018 and champion greeting amusement successful 2023.

Last year, they were awarded by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) for their breaking quality sum of earthquake rescue efforts successful Turkey. This year, Hiscox received a National Lifetime Achievement Award from the RTDNA. 

Common’s last time hosting Metro Morning volition beryllium Jan. 16, 2026, earlier helium begins his full-time hosting relation astatine Morning Live connected Feb. 2. Various anchors volition capable the Morning Live hosting relation until then, portion a hunt for the caller big of Metro Morning is ongoing.