FORMER ANCHOR OF CBC’S NATIONAL NEWS DIES AT 93

A former anchor of the CBC’s nightly newscast died at 93 in Kingston Saturday. The broadcaster says that Stanley Burke hosted The National News from 1966 to 1969, before the show was rebranded as The National. Burke, pictured, was also a foreign correspondent, and reported from Berlin just after the barricades went up separating East and West Germany in 1961. The CBC says Burke launched a campaign to raise aware- ness of the Biafran civil war and the humanitarian crisis in Nigeria over the secession of Biafra as an independent state. After he retired, Burke wrote several children’s books, including Frog Fables & Beaver Tales, originally published in 1973, and The Day of the Revolution, published the following year. The funeral and memorial service will be held on Amherst Island near Kingston on June 2.