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What we can learn from poets of the past

August 1, 2018August 7, 2018 / Ed Finn

An anthology of famous and not-so-famous poems There was a time when poetry was as widely read as prose – a time when the latest poems of Keats, Shelley and Coleridge were as eagerly anticipated and acclaimed as the latest novels by Dickens, Trolloppe, and Hardy. This was partly because of the ability of the … Continue reading What we can learn from poets of the past

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Ed Finn

Ed Finn began his 70-year career in journalism in 1944 as a reporter for the Corner Brook daily The Western Star, followed by two years with the Montreal Gazette in the 1950s. While working as a communicator for several unions during the 1960s-1980s, he wrote a column on labour relations for the Toronto Star from 1968 to 1982. He retired in 2014 after serving 20 years as editor of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ monthly magazine, The Monitor.

Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada in November 2020 for his lifelong contributions to Canada’s political discourse as a trade unionist, journalist, writer and politician.

Ed passed away peacefully in Ottawa on December 27, 2020 at the age of 94.

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