Larry Zolf dead at age 76

Larry Zolf, the veteran CBC journalist and political expert, has died. He was 76. No further details were immediately available. Zolf's career is studded with wonderful anecdotes befitting a working journalist. The CBC obit here tells many of them. Another is published on Wikipedia: "In October 1971, Zolf invited feminist Germaine Greer and anti-abortion politician Joe Borowski on his program to discuss the emergence of second-wave feminism. During the program, however, Zolf launched his own attack on Greer, accusing her of "ignoring ethnic and class differences among women." Greer responded by accusing him of fabricating sections of her book (The Female Eunuch, in fact, contained no "section" on truck drivers) and told him, "I never suggested any such thing. I cannot have you sitting here distorting my book for the people who are foolish enough to think that you know about things." Zolf was born into a socialist home in Winnipeg but described himself politically as "a Diefenbaker, Bill Davis, Dalton Camp Red Tory."