COLLEAGUE TRIBUTES

I’ll never forget his mentorship, his wit, his heart. He was one of the best writers I’ve ever had the joy to work with, and one of the best people I’ve ever had the privilege to call a friend. What a tremendous loss. Cassandra Kyle Wyman, former Starphoenix business reporter

I was a copy editor at the Starphoenix when I met Cam three decades ago, when he joined The SP as an intern.

As a fellow Word Nerd, I appreciated his tremendous writing talents — the beautiful turns of phrase, the careful choice of words that conveyed a thought just so — even as we sometimes butted heads over language use. When he bolted news coverage for entertainment, I thought he was wasting his talents, but was soon proven wrong. Cam’s quick wit, great sense of humour, and his shy-yet-unflinchingly honest personality shone through in his incisive columns.

I will miss him terribly as a friend, a journalist, and a fabulous human who often brought a smile to my face or made me guffaw with his take on everyday life. Sarath Peiris, colleague for nearly 30 years

For five years, I was blessed to work shoulder to shoulder with Cam Fuller ... The community knows him as a champion of the arts, even as he applied his razor-sharp mind and journalistic ethics to every single moment and word of his working life.

I will never forget the brutally long, difficult months before the Juno Awards came to Saskatoon; the endless hours, the massive planning, the late filing of stories, the meeting of the eastern newspapers’ deadlines.

At the end of it, when the final word was written, Cam turned to me and said, ‘I would never have made it through this without you.’ I will never forget that moment. I hold it in my heart as the greatest professional compliment I have ever received, because it came from this talented colleague whom I admired so much; and it was really the opposite that was true. He was a warrior. Joanne Paulson, former Starphoenix colleague