Anne-Marie Mediwake

Mediwake was born in Sri Lanka. Her parents emigrated to Canada when she was a child, settling in southern Alberta. Her father is Sri Lankan while her mother is of Scottish origin.^[3] In 1993, she started her television career in Lethbridge. Six years later she moved to Toronto where she was a reporter for CTV. While at CTV, she co-hosted the award-winning 21c, a current-affairs program aimed at Canada's younger generation, and reported for Canada AM and CTV National News.

She is married to Darryl Konynenbelt, who is also a journalist and together they have triplets Annabel Abeyesinghe, Maxim Bandara and Libby Abeyesinghe who were born in 2007. An ongoing series on the pregnancy and the births was carried in the National Post.^[1] In 2010, Konynenbelt announced that he was seeking the provincial nomination as candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party in the Ontario electoral district of Mississauga South^[6] (Konynenbelt lost the nomination to Geoff Janoscik, who lost the 2011 election to incumbent Charles Sousa).

Mediwake and Konynenbelt reside in Oakville, Ontario.^[7]

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