David Common is the host of METRO MORNING on CBC Radio and CBC Listen, and a contributor to other CBC News programs.

Hes travelled to every province and territory on assignment, and been dispatched to more than 85 countries on a range of stories. Common has spent time underwater in a submerged submarine near the Korean peninsula, travelled Ukraine, Afghanistan and Iraq covering war, watched as Canadas Navy confronted pirates off Somalia, and been on board a Canadian icebreaker in the Arctic search for the ill-fated Franklin expedition.

He also once interviewed Elmo on Sesame Street.

Originally from Winnipeg, Common went to university in Toronto and Sweden. He's also a contributor to the investigative team at marketplace, and has gone as far as the backstreets of Indian in pursuit of phone scammers targeting Canadians, tackled questionable sales practices in Canadas funeral homes, located the source of a potential poison inserted into childrens jewellery at factories in China, and dived into the problem of food waste in Canadian supermarkets.

Common has been honoured to receive several awards, and is one of the CBC's multi-skilled journalists, able to shoot and edit his own stories as needed, and shifts between hosting and reporting, on the CBCs national digital, radio and television platforms.

He lives in Toronto with his wife and two daughters.