Rick Wiertz, 68, on March 27, after a short battle with cancer. Wiertz started his broadcasting career in 1979 as a news producer at CFRN Radio & Television in Edmonton. Originally from Surrey, BC, Wiertz returned to the West Coast in 1986, joining CKVU (now Citytv) as a parliamentary reporter. From there, he went on to serve as News Director at CHEK-TV from 1990-95, and around that time served one term as president of RTDNA Canada. Wiertz later briefly surfaced on Victoria’s CFAX as a talk host, before moving into the tech sector, working in sales roles, including VP of Sales at ParetoLogic, and General Manager of Tesseract Technologies, which he eventually took ownership of and served as President & CEO. He went on to lead ASAP ELearning Solutions and Qumark Global Business Solutions.