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The author and onetime magazine and newspaper editor was a serious person in a serious country, which Canada is no longer is.
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The author and onetime magazine and newspaper editor was a serious person in a serious country, which Canada is no longer is.
The Globe and Mail Rod Mickleburgh Published January 14, 2021 Ben Welland Except for a historic venture into the politics of Newfoundland, Ed Finn was not one to generate headlines. He was a behind-the-scenes guy. Over a career that spanned nearly 70 years, Mr. Finn used his skills as a communicator and strategist to advance unions and progressive causes ranging from the bitter Newfoundland loggers’ strike in 1959 to the fierce fight for medicare in Saskatchewan to the anti-free trade movement to myriad union battles across the country. He also brought the views of labour into the mainst...