Former Toronto Star and Maclean's magazine editor-in-chief Peter C. Newman died in Belleville, Ontario, from stroke complications early Thursday. He was 94.
Veteran Canadian journalist and author Peter C. Newman, who held a mirror up to Canada, has died. Newman died in hospital in Belleville, Ontario, Thursday morning from complications related to a stroke he had last year and which caused him to develop Parkinson’s disease, his wife Alvy Newman said by phone. In his decades-long career, Newman served as editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star and Maclean’s magazine covering both Canadian politics and business.