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- Peter C. Newman, a titan of Canadian news media, died Thursday morning at an Ontario hospital. He was 94.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Newman served as the editor-in-chief of both the Toronto Star and Maclean’s magazine, and was one of Canada’s most illustrious political commentators.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- “It\u2019s such a loss. It\u2019s like a library burned down if you lose someone with that knowledge,” his wife, Alvy, said of his passing. “He revolutionized journalism, business, politics, history.”<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Veteran Canadian journalist and author Peter C. Newman, who held a mirror up to Canada, has died. He was 94.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s disease, his wife Alvy Newman said by phone.<\/p>\n
In his decades-long career, Newman served as editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star and Maclean\u2019s magazine covering both Canadian politics and business.<\/p>\n
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“It\u2019s such a loss. It\u2019s like a library burned down if you lose someone with that knowledge,” Alvy Newman said. “He revolutionized journalism, business, politics, history.”<\/p>\n
Often recognized by his trademark sailor\u2019s cap, Newman also wrote two dozen books and earned the informal title of Canada\u2019s “most cussed and discussed commentator,” said HarperCollins, one of his publishers, in an author’s note.<\/p>\n
Political columnist Paul Wells, who for years was a senior writer at Maclean\u2019s, said Newman built the publication into what it was at its peak, “an urgent, weekly news magazine with a global ambit.<\/p>\n
But more than that, Wells said, Newman created a template for Canadian political authors.<\/p>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n\n\nCanadian author Peter C. Newman, who died Thursday morning, is seen aboard his Sea-Tiger-42 wooden ketch.<\/span> (Photo by Lucas Oleniuk\/Toronto Star via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
“The Canadian Establishment\u2019 books persuaded everyone \u2014 his colleagues, the book-buying public \u2014 that Canadian stories could be as important, as interesting, as riveting as stories from anywhere else,” he said. “And he sold truckloads of those books. My God.”<\/p>\n
That series of three books \u2014 the first of which was published in 1975, the last in 1998 \u2014 chronicled Canada\u2019s recent history through the stories of its unelected power players.<\/p>\n
Newman also told his own story in his 2004 autobiography, “Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power.”<\/p>\n
He was born in Vienna in 1929 and came to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee. In his biography, Newman describes being shot at by Nazis as he waited on the beach at Biarritz, France, for the ship that would take him to freedom.<\/p>\n
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“Nothing compares with being a refugee; you are robbed of context and you flail about, searching for self-definition,” he wrote. “When I ultimately arrived in Canada, what I wanted was to gain a voice. To be heard. That longing has never left me.”<\/p>\n
That, he said, is why he became a writer.<\/p>\n
The Writers\u2019 Trust of Canada said Newman\u2019s 1963 book “Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years” about former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had “revolutionized Canadian political reporting with its controversial \u2018insiders-tell-all\u2019 approach.”<\/p>\n
Newman was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1978 and promoted to the rank of companion in 1990, recognized as a “chronicler of our past and interpreter of our present.”<\/p>\n
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Newman won some of Canada\u2019s most illustrious literary awards, along with seven honorary doctorates, according to his HarperCollins profile.<\/p>\n
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- Newman served as the editor-in-chief of both the Toronto Star and Maclean’s magazine, and was one of Canada’s most illustrious political commentators.<\/strong><\/li>\n