Lowell Green, 89, suddenly on Feb. 14. Green started his radio career in Brantford, followed by stops in Sudbury and Montreal, before landing at CFRA in 1960 as the station’s farm reporter. By 1966, he was hosting the long-running Greenline, developing a reputation for promoting “common sense” and his “island of sanity” as he guided listeners through the issues of the day. He briefly stepped away from radio in the 1980s – during which he founded the Ottawa Sunday Herald (predecessor to the Ottawa Sun) – returning to CFRA in 1993 with The Lowell Green Show, which he hosted until his official retirement in early 2016. He continued contributing to midday program News and Views with Rob Snow until restructuring at Bell Media in late 2019. He went on to launch podcast “The Island of Sanity” in 2020, which ran through 2022. Green’s accolades are many, including receiving an RTNDA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Read more here.
Elly Alboim, 78, on Feb. 8. The child of Polish immigrants, Alboim was raised in Montreal, earning his B.A. in Honours Sociology from McGill University and his M.Sc. in Journalism from Columbia University before joining CBC as a reporter in 1970. He went on to a more than two-decade career with the public broadcaster, the last 16 years as Parliamentary Bureau Chief for CBC-TV and Senior Producer of Live News Specials, in addition to serving as the National Political Editor. He retired from the network in 1993. Concurrently, he taught Journalism at Carleton University, starting in 1980, in addition to teaching stints in Concordia University’s Graduate Studies Program, and Government Communications at the Queen’s University School of Policy Studies. Following his journalism career, he joined Earnscliffe Strategies where he provided strategic counsel on public affairs, advising numerous politicians, including premiers and prime ministers. Alboim was a founding board member of the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) and a member of the CJF Executive Committee, as well as the Journalistic Oversight Committee at the Canadian Medical Association Journal. He was recognized with a Gemini Award for his work in Special Events coverage, and nominated for four others during his time at the CBC.
