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TORONTO - Radio and television personality Dick Smyth, whose booming commentary filled Canadian airwaves for decades with hot takes on the day's topics,...
Radio and television personality Dick Smyth, whose booming commentary filled Canadian airwaves for decades with hot takes on the day's topics, has died at 86.
"He was a mentor to many, many people in the business, and I know that he's left a hole in many people's hearts with his passing," she said by phone from Nova Scotia. The veteran broadcaster was a familiar voice to radio listeners who tuned in for his trademark introduction: "Here's how things look to Dick Smyth this morning." His career spanned an array of influential stations, such as CKLW-AM in Windsor, Ont., when it was known as "the Big 8," and 1050 CHUM in Toronto. And his face was known to viewers during the early days of Citytv's news broadcasts where he offered unapologetic and anim...
Radio and television personality Dick Smyth, whose booming commentary filled Canadian airwaves for decades with hot takes on the day’s topics, has died at 86. His daughter Tracy Smyth said he died Saturday afternoon in Huntsville, Ont. “He was a mentor to many, many people in the business, and I know that he’s left a […]
Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935 Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world around them. This first-hand narrative by a Canadian writer, Gordon Sinclair , offers an idea of the situation in which the British padre fought ignorance, and backwardness by using his school as the main change-maker in a society devastated by deceit, dogmas and discrimination. Between the lines, it tells the story about who mattered in the 1930s’ of Kashmir and why A pre-partition photograph showing the adult education class in progre...