Jay Levine, 69, on Sept. 1. Levine was instrumental in the creation of Fashion Television in 1985, which went on to air in over 120 countries. He served as a director and supervising producer on the show for 27 years, right through its final season in 2012. While with Citytv and CTV, he also produced a number of network specials, documentaries and other series, including Channel 4/CTV co-production, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…; and UK factual docuseries, The Art of Architecture. He also served as a producer on 2002 arts documentary Naked in the House, which won a Gemini Award. He started his career at CityPulse News, including time spent serving as assignment editor. Read more here.

Jacques Doucet, 86, on Aug. 27. The French-language voice of baseball at Montreal’s Olympic stadium, Doucet spent 33 seasons – from 1972 to 2004 – calling more than 5,500 Montreal Expos games. Doucet is credited with helping popularize French vocabulary used to describe baseball plays. He started his career as a sports writer with The Canadian Press (CP) in 1959, going on to cover the Expos during their inaugural 1969 season as a beat reporter for La Presse. While still working in print, he occasionally did colour commentary on early radio broadcasts, stepping into the booth full-time ahead of the 1972 season. He also worked on French-language broadcasts for MLB playoff and World Series games. He went on to call games for the Quebec Capitales of the Can-Am League from 2006-11, once again returning to MLB with TVA Sports, calling French-language broadcasts for Toronto Blue Jays and playoff games. Doucet was inducted into the Quebec Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020. He’d previously received the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Jack Graney Award in 2004 and the Quebec National Assembly Medal of Honour in 2011.