Harvey Glatt, 91, on Aug. 20. Glatt, a staple on the Ottawa music scene for six decades, got his feet wet in broadcasting as the all-night DJ on CFRA Ottawa in 1952 during summer vacation. While studying Business at Clarkson College of Technology in Potsdam, New York, he DJ’ed at the local campus radio station, also serving as sports director and doing play-by-play hockey broadcasts. Glatt went on to open Ottawa’s first stand-alone record store, The Treble Clef, in 1957, with his wife Louise. They subsequently became partners in Le Hibou Coffee House, where folk legends like Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Bruce Cockburn played. Glatt later founded concert promotion business, Bass Clef Entertainment and Bytown Music Publishing. In 1976, he helped launch CHEZ 106, which he served as chairman of for 23 years. He went on to buy two more radio stations, CKIK Calgary and CJET Smiths Falls, selling all three to Rogers Communications in 1999. He was concurrently active on the boards of FACTOR and the Canadian Film Institute, among other organizations. Glatt was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) Hall of Fame in 2007, received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013, and was named to the Order of Ottawa in 2022.
Tracey Robertson, 59, on Aug. 20. Originally hailing from Westbank, BC, Robertson was a graduate of Western University’s Master of Journalism program. Her broadcasting career included six years with CNN as a writer and producer, and a brief stint at Global TV as a producer, before she joined CTV Vancouver behind-the-scenes for a decade. She went on to work with CBC Vancouver as a producer, starting in 2011.
Dan O’Connell, 72, on Aug. 19, in Antigonish, NS. O’Connell was a school teacher and worked in public relations, prior to his career in television news. He joined CBC Nova Scotia in 1989 as a Senior Editorial Assistant, moving into a reporter/editor role the following year. Among the big stories O’Connell covered was the Westray Mine Disaster, where he was one of the first reporters on the scene. He was recognized with an Atlantic Journalism Award for his work covering the tainted blood scandal, among other nominations over the years. He retired at the end of 2013.
