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.
"It’s such a loss. It’s like a library burned down if you lose someone with that knowledge," Alvy Newman said."He revolutionized journalism, business, politics, history."
Often recognized by his trademark sailor’s cap, Newman also wrote two dozen books and earned the informal title of Canada’s"most cussed and discussed commentator," said HarperCollins, one of his publishers, in an author's note. Political columnist Paul Wells, who for years was a senior writer at Maclean’s, said Newman built the publication into what it was at its peak,"an urgent, weekly news magazine with a global ambit.Canadian author Peter C. Newman, who died Thursday morning, is seen aboard his Sea-Tiger-42 wooden ketch.
"The Canadian Establishment’ books persuaded everyone — his colleagues, the book-buying public — 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."Canada’s recent historyNewman also told his own story in his 2004 autobiography,"Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power.
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
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