Bob Stall, who passed away from leukemia on March 14, was a gifted writer and was named B.C.\u0027s top newspaper columnist four times.
He followed the Rolling Stones on their 1972 Canadian tour in Toronto and Montreal. He went to the Rockies to write about the railway workers who kept the CPR mainline up and running. He got up at 5 a.m. to profile the cleaning ladies of Parliament in Ottawa.
He started off as the editorial page editor and rose to assistant managing editor. But he wanted to return to writing and, on Sept. 16, 1990, became a columnist.Advertisement 4“He was not one of those cold-hearted columnists,” said his former colleague at The Province and Weekend, Wil Wigle. “He talked to everybody.”Some of them were first person, like a column about the last time he drove drunk.
He won four Marjorie Nicholls Award as B.C.’s top newspaper columnist, but lost the two times he received a National Newspaper Award nomination. This led him to label himself a “repeat loser.”Article content
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