Alison Smith (born August 22, 1954) is a Canadian television and radio journalist and anchor.
She graduated in 1972 from Southern Okanagan Secondary School in Oliver, British Columbia, where her father Bruce was a guidance counsellor.
She studied at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto.
From 2005 to 2009, Smith was CBC Television's Washington correspondent, succeeding David Halton.
[3] In 2016, she joined CPAC as host of a new weekly series on international affairs.