- News Anchor for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Author of many books
- He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on November 17, 1988 for his services to communications in Canada.
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada (July 2007)
- Began his career by selling newspapers on the streets of Toronto during World War II.
- As a child, he created his own newspaper, and ran his own newsstand.
- His first real journalism job was night editor with the British United Press, a Toronto-based wire service. He later became the Washington correspondent for CBC's Newsmagazine. He covered the Cuban missile crisis, space launches at Cape Canaveral, and the riots surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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