Journalist, Environmentalist, Novelist, Writer, now deceased. Hunter’s rare distinction was that he managed to taste most of both the right and wrong things that presented themselves to an intelligent, politically liberal/left white male during the cultural smorgasbord of the last quarter of the 20th Century, and he survived relatively sane and phobia-free into the 21st. A puritanical NDP smear campaign sunk his attempt to win the Toronto Beaches provincial riding in a recent by-election. He’d have made a very, very interesting Minister of Environment.