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Author: Brad Wheeler
Publication Date: May 16, 2025 - 13:45
Effervescent tenor Claude Morrison co-founded the a cappella group the Nylons
May 16, 2025
Claude Morrison, the last surviving original member of the world-famous Canadian a cappella group the Nylons, died of cancer in his home on April 22. He was 72 and had retired when the vocal quartet called it a day in 2017. Funny and self-aware, he joked about his celebrity status. “Don’t you know who I think I am?” he would exclaim, in mock indignation.
One day when he was a kid, Bruce McKean heard a noise coming from a rooming house near his home in Victoria. He went inside and found that the wood stacked beside the furnace was in flames. He yelled “fire.” The firemen came and extinguished it. Young Bruce had saved the day.But instead of thanking him, the people who ran the rooming house chewed him out. They didn’t want a spotlight shone on their dubious establishment.
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I ’d known Abby for over twenty years. We always had a lot to talk about, with overlapping interests and a similar world view. She had a soothing energy and a keen sense of humour. Over the years, the occasional comment or dark joke made me wonder if we shared the same kind of damage, but I never probed.
One day, we sat across from each other in a pub booth in Paddington, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. She ordered a glass of champagne for us both and we picked at some food. After some small talk, she asked me, “How are you?”
There was something about her tone, the genuine concern in...
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Rachel Smith is expecting to give birth any day in the epicentre of Canada’s worst measles outbreak in nearly 30 years. However, the Aylmer, Ont., mother is not worried about her health or the health of her baby because she’s fully vaccinated against the virus. Her cousin, Esther Wiebe, is not worried either, but for a different reason – she and her three unvaccinated children have already recovered from measles and are now immune.
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