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This is Daniel Cook covering the election


TORONTO – While some would say politicians sometimes act like children, CTV is giving a real kid a chance to find out. Today, CTV announced it has signed Canada’s most famous eight-year-old redhead, Daniel Cook, to cover the election campaign. Cook, a Gemini Award nominee and star of television’s This is Daniel Cook, will report on the Federal Election campaign. His primary assignment will be for CTV Newsnet’s Countdown with Mike Duffy, where Cook (pictured chatting today with Conservative leader Stephen Harper) will file a weekly report Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT beginning January 5. Cook asked Harper,...