Obituaries
The celebrity obit page in the Globe and Mail for June 4, 2012 has two entries. At the bottom, a four inch obit for Paul Fussell, who died May 23 at age 88. Fussell was a man who wrote two and maybe three great books during his life. One, The Great War and Modern Memory,…
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Read MoreA friend of mine, Slobodan Drakulic, died unexpectedly a few days ago. I hadn’t seen him for almost 18 months, but I missed his company if not on a daily basis, then frequently enough that I was often dimly aware of a resented absence in my life, a hole that could only be filled by…
Read MoreMy oldest friend, Don White, forwarded an obituary to me from the Prince George Citizen the other day. It was for Butch Nielsen, a man both of us were equally close to in our formative last two years of high school and for a few years after that. Butch and I were similar in several…
Read MoreBrian Fawcett loses a cherished neighbour in downtown Toronto
Read MoreBrian Fawcett records the end of an exemplary life..
Read MoreBrian Fawcett meets a wise man.
Read MoreReflections on the death of poet Robin Blaser.
Read MoreMax Fawcett remembers the late Val Ross.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett files a column about the differences between the late Ed
Mirvish and Conrad Black. He's been thinking about this all summer,
actually.