Most Canadians in their late fifties and beyond remember where they were when it happened. Some 16 million viewers — more than 70 percent of the population — were glued to TV sets at home, at school, at work, and outside shop windows. In Stratford, Ontario, William Hutt had just finished the transformative storm scene in act 3 of King Lear when he turned to the audience and…
Robert Lewis
Robert Lewis is a former editor-in-chief of Maclean’s magazine and the author of Power, Prime Ministers and the Press: The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill.