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Jim Munro [1929 –Nov.22 2016 ],founder of one of the World’s great bookstores.
Leonard Cohen.1934 -Nov.7th. 2016.
Mel Hurtig 1932 – 3 Aug.2016.
Margaret Atwood’s political piece on hair appeared and disappeared in the National Post while ‘facts were checked’.
Sean Micheals wins the Giller prize with his biography of Lerv Sergeivitch Terman, inventer of the Theremin.
Canadian Hugh Davidson, champion of the Arts, May 1930 – July 2014
Famous Canadian Farley Mowat, a passionate and out-spoken environmentalist, adventurer and author of the internationally acclaimed book “Never Cry Wolf”, has died at age 92.
Award-winning Cape Breton author and Order of Canada member Alistair MacLeod dies at age 77
Justin Trudeau is publishing a memoir which he promises will be very “candid”. [Ironically, it is being published by HARPER Collins]