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William "Bill" Cameron (January 23, 1943 – March 11, 2005) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A Gemini Award winner, he was a news anchor, television producer, columnist and author. After attending the University of Toronto and spending time in New York City pursuing a career in acting, he got his start on CBC Radio as a freelance entertainment critic in the 1960s before moving on to Maclean's magazine where he was an associate editor and then to Global TV in 1978 as host of Newsweek. Canadian Press This work is copyrighted. ...
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1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...
March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Gemini Awards are an annual awards ceremony in Canada. ...
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A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ...
The University of Toronto (U of T), in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest university in Canada. ...
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CBC Radio is the English language radio division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
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The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global) is a major English-language television network in Canada, owned by CanWest Global Communications. ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
In the 1980s, Cameron worked for Citytv as the late night anchor for CityPulse but is best known for his work on the CBC television in the 1980s and 1990s, where he co-hosted Midday, was a reporter on documentaries for and was an occasional anchor of The Journal, and later anchored the local evening news on CBLT in Toronto, the CBC Morning News, and the afternoon show Newsworld International on CBC Newsworld. He left the CBC in 1999 to become vice president of communications for an online gem marketing firm. He also took the ethics chair at the Ryerson School of Journalism and freelanced for the National Post and The Walrus. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Citytv is a system of five English language television stations in Canada, owned by the CHUM Limited group. ...
CityPulse is the name of a Canadian local news show broadcast on Citytv Vancouver. ...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ...
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The Journal was a popular current affairs newsmagazine on CBC Television from 1982 to 1992. ...
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CBC Newsworld is a Canadian 24-hour cable news television channel operated by the CBC. It broadcasts into over 10 million homes nation-wide, as well as into some northern states in the U.S. It is the worlds third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ...
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Ethics (from Greek ἦθος meaning custom) is the branch of axiology, one of the four major branches of philosophy, which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to distinguish that which is right from that which is wrong. ...
Photo of Ryersons Quad and Kerr Hall in downtown Toronto Ryerson University is a publicly funded post-secondary education institution located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Ontario, which is Canadas largest city. ...
The National Post is a major Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ...
Cover of the April 2005 issue of The Walrus. ...
In 2003, he released a novel Cat's Crossing, published by Random House of Canada. He also had a cameo role on the comedy series Puppets Who Kill as the newsreader reporting on the latest murders by the show's homicidal puppets. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann based in New York City. ...
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy series produced by and appearing on the Canadian Comedy Network. ...
Cameron was married to Cheryl Hawkes, a freelance journalist, and their three children - Patrick, Rachel and Nicholas. He also had an elder son, Sean Patenaude. He died of esophageal cancer at around midnight (EST) on March 11, 2005. Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the esophagus. ...
In his last piece of journalism, Chasing the Crab, Cameron documented his battle with cancer. The essay appeared in the May 2005 issue of The Walrus. Cover of the April 2005 issue of The Walrus. ...
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