Passings

Canadian actor and longtime stand-up comedian Norm Macdonald has died after a nine-year private battle with cancer, his management team confirmed Tuesday.

Nanci Griffith, a Grammy-winning folk and country music singer-songwriter, has died aged 68.

Her death was confirmed by management and her record label on Friday, without a cause of death being given.

sad.

Former Ontario Premier Bill Davis died Sunday morning at his home in Brampton, family members told CP24 in a statement.

“After spending much family time in his favourite of all places, his cottage in Georgian Bay, he died of natural causes at home in Brampton, surrounded by members of his family. He was 92 years young,” his family said Sunday.

William G. Davis served as the Premier of Ontario for 14 years, from 1971 to 1985.

Markie Post, an actress known for The Fall Guy and Night Court, has died following a battle with cancer. She was 70.

Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the Prophet Muhammad outraged many Muslims worldwide, has died at the age of 86.

He died after a long illness, his family told the Berlingske newspaper on Sunday.

Westergaard was a cartoonist for the conservative Jyllands-Posten newspaper from the early 1980s.

He became world famous in 2005 for his controversial image of the Prophet Muhammad in the newspaper.

I did meet him briefly, Kathy was gifted a signed print of the Motoon in the photo autographed also by Geert Wilders – “To Kathy”. It hangs on our wall to this day.

American billionaire tycoon John McAfee, known for creating antivirus software, has been found dead in his Catalan prison cell, as confirmed by prison sources. The inmate’s death comes a day after the Supreme Court approved his extradition to the United States for alleged tax crimes committed between 2016 and 2018.

Frank Bonner, who played Herb Tarlek on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati,” has died. He was 79.

1.  “British women can’t cook” (in Britain in 1966).
2.  “What do you gargle with? Pebbles?” (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).
3. “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969).
4. “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).

Always good for a laugh.

Prince Philip refused to obey the rules of modern moral etiquette.

Even though I am not a royalist, I always admired Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. He was often criticised in the media for his many so-called gaffes. However, his formidable track record of saying unfashionable things in public can be taken as a positive testimony to his refusal to follow the rules of media training.