Class of 1812
Buzz Hargrove toed the mandatory retirement line. These best-before-date bypassers refuse to hang it up By Douglas Bell
Lloyd Robertson, 74
The Bob Barker
of Canadian
broadcasting
has been dishing out the headlines of the day
since before we went metric. Between Lloyd, Craig Oliver and Dave Devall, CTV’s crack news team looks more like a lawn
bowling league.
Hanging on: to cover the
2020 Olympics, unless the free suits and hair tint run out first.
Ted Rogers, 75
Shortly before his last birthday, Canada’s communications king betrayed his vintage by referencing Dick Tracy
to explain how he knew early
on that cellphones were the
way of the future.
Hanging on: until a suitable replacement can be found,
or until he can afford to operate
an iPhone on his own network.
Hazel
McCallion, 87
She’s older than God, and in Mississauga—where Hurricane Hazel has served as mayor since 1978—she’s almost as powerful. Less divine are her motor skills:
in 2006, McCallion plowed her car into a street sign.
Hanging on: until someone
can produce a decent script
for Weekend at Hazel’s.
The Toronto–Rochester Ferry, 107
Are we really dusting off this corpse of an idea (first attempted in 1901) for the third time in recent memory? Arguably the most
ill-fated vessel since the Titanic, The Breeze went broke 11 weeks after it launched in 2004 and failed again in ’05.
Hanging on: to inspire a sticky Celine Dion power ballad.
Robertson from CTV; Rogers by J.P. Moczulski/Reuters; McCallion from CP; Ferry by Ryan Tucker
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