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He fell in love with the French language as a teenager and over his varied 35-year career would tackle diverse issues from constitutional anxieties to telephone rates with a singular, often eclectic approach
by Edith Cody-Rice
The late great Canadian journalist, broadcaster, editor and public intellectual Keith Spicer once said when asked about his memoir Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian, “Everyone should write their memoirs to find out what they’ve been up to all their lives.”