Silly Little Country

June Callwood, R. I .P.

We have known for a long time that June Callwood was fighting a terminal cancer and she succumbed this morning. For some small sense of who she was, a natural place to look is the CBC site.
As one would expect, they over-emphasize the social activism at the expense of the sheer intelligence and humour, and great journalistic skills. Her other fine qualities got her into trouble with accusations of being a racist, largely, as she put it, for treating a black person the way she would have treated anyone else. She described 'feminism' as the belief that everyone should be treated fairly.
She was a Toronto fixture for years. They way she treated these last years, knowing full well how limited her remaining time was, seemed very classy to me.
I will miss her.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 12:11 PM