Christie Blatchford, a powerful public voice through nearly five decades of journalism, has died after being diagnosed with cancer in November.
Blatchford was one of Canada’s most prominent writers, having been a leading journalist at each of Toronto’s daily newspapers, a trailblazer for women in sports reporting, an award-winning war correspondent, and a columnist renowned for her vexing mix of toughness and tenderness.
There have been many excellent tributes written about Blatchford. You can read some here, here, and here.