Posted on 05/02/2005 12:07:15 PM PDT by Borges
TORONTO - Broadcaster, author and journalist Bob Hunter, who co-founded the environmental action group Greenpeace, has died. He was 63.
Hunter, who was the ecology news specialist for CHUM's Citytv, had been battling prostate cancer.
Co-founder of Greenpeace, Bob Hunter, dies at age 63 Hunter was also known in Toronto for his early morning Paper Cuts segment on the network where he would appear in his bathrobe and comment on the stories of the day in the newspapers.
Hunter, born in Manitoba, helped launch the pro-environmental group Greenpeace in 1971 after sailing to Amchitka to oppose nuclear weapons testing.
"This was a man with a great loving heart, a brilliant mind and a massive spirit," said Stephen Hurlbut, vice-president of news programming for Citytv.
Hunter was also honoured as one of Time magazine's Eco Heroes of the 20th Century.
He won a number of awards for his writings, including a Governor General's Award in 1991 for his work Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past.
In 2001, he ran unsuccessfully for the Liberals in a provincial by-election.
I'm almost as impressed as the 10th time someone told me their toddler used the toilet without help.
How terribly distressing.
Well, we can offer him one here! :-)
"'E's not dead! 'E's just pinin' for the fjords!"
NOOOOOOOOO........THE EYES !!!!!
Whew! this bad for the envirnment. Helen Thomas is responsible for 90% of the world's acid rain and methane.
Please don't ask for a link, it's hazardous to my health.
Whew! This is bad for the envirnment. Helen Thomas is responsible for 90% of the world's acid rain and methane.
Please don't ask for a link, it's hazardous to my health.
"Lovely plummage, Norwegian Blue!"
Ahhh, that's a shame. Are the Marlins on tv tonight?
Did his part on reducing global warming, assumed room temperature.
Let's all plan to blockade his funeral procession.
Ted Kennedy will be in mourning..
OW OW OW OWOWOWOW!! My eyes are bleeding--ROTFLOL! I'll tell you what, I can really be in a slump and when I log on to FR, my night
AND day is better!
Feed him to the seals. No global warming. greenpiece, just let him lay in the shade for a few days and that's what he'll become. Then feed him to the seals... naw, worms got to eat too.
Go screw, watermelon.
Troll sighted, man the Harpoon gun!
Mods were right on that....{:0)
Troll depth charged and destroyed, cancel call.
Yeah, I didn't even get in a good shot at him before they got him.
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