Tag: Obituary
CBC News veteran Israel Cinman has passed away
Retired CBC Senior Producer and International Assignment Editor Israel Cinman has passed away.
Cinman died Wednesday night after suffering a stroke in January.
He started his...
Former Global BC, CHEK-TV exec Roy Gardner has passed away
Roy Gardner, a longtime executive at both Global BC and CHEK-TV in Victoria, has passed away.
Gardner died last Saturday at the age of 83.
Raised...
Doug Thorne, longtime CHUM newsman turned Kingston radio host, passes away...
Doug Thorne, 74, unexpectedly on July 3. Thorne was hired right out of Ryerson University by Dick Smyth at CHUM in 1973. After working...
‘Canada’s Country Gentleman’ Tommy Hunter passes away at 89
Tommy Hunter, the host of the long-running "The Tommy Hunter Show" on CBC for nearly 30 years, has passed away at the age of...
Michael Zaplitny (aka Mike Douglas), veteran Saskatchewan radio broadcaster, dies at...
Michael Zaplitny (aka Mike Douglas), on June 28, in Swift Current, SK, after a battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Born in Dauphin, MB, Zaplitny...
Radio veteran Tom Jeffries has passed away
Radio veteran Tom Jeffries - who spent time on-air in Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto and Halifax over a more than four-decade career - has passed...
