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Former Georgia Straight editor Bob Mercer dies at 72


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Popular Vancouver journalist Bob Mercer died Feb. 26 after a battle with cancer, which shocked people who knew him, partly because he had kept his illness quiet, and partly because Mercer seemed kind of invincible.
Mercer was a master at reinventing himself. The self-described “son of a preacher man” his father was a United Church minister Mercer was a hippie, a Yippie, an artist, a musician, and a teacher.
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But he will be remembered mostly as a journalist, starting off in the underground press in the late 1960s and early ’70s with The Yellow Journal, The Grape, and The Georgia Straight before moving over to more mainstream fare such as Vancouver magazine and The Province. ....

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