Rafe Mair’s passing a sad loss for Canadian journalism
KAMLOOPS — Canadian journalism has lost one of its best.
News came yesterday of the death of Rafe Mair— former talk-show host, author, columnist, one-time Kamloops City councilor, former B.C. cabinet minister, lawyer, environmentalist and lovable curmudgeon. He was 85.
Rafe was a classic, no-nonsense, straight-talking commentator in the tradition of Jack Webster who believed he had a calling to tell it like it is.