Stanley Burke, Jr. (February 8, 1923 – May 28, 2016) was a Canadian television journalist.

Early years

Burke's father was businessman Stanley Burke, founder of Pemberton Securities, a stockbrokerage firm in

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. His brother was Lieutenant-Commander Cornelius Burke, a prominent

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officer during

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Career

He was the anchor of

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's '' The National News'' from 1966 to 1969. The show was renamed '' The National'' after he resigned to launch a public campaign to bring attention to the

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and the humanitarian crisis in the secessionist state of

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. Following his retirement from the CBC, Burke also wrote a number of books satirizing Canadian politics in the form of children's stories, including ''Frog Fables and Beaver Tales'', ''The Day of the Glorious Revolution'' and ''Swamp Song''. In the 1980s he was publisher with partner Jack McCann of the weekly newspaper Nanaimo Times in

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, British Columbia.

Death

Stanley Burke, Jr. died at the Kingston General Hospital in

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on May 28, 2016, aged 93.

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Stanley Burke
1923 births 2016 deaths Canadian television news anchors Canadian humorists CBC Television people 20th-century Canadian journalists {{Canada-journalist-stub