Investigative journalist Stevie Cameron dies at home in Toronto, age 80

The Canadian Press  02/09/2024 14:17 An investigative journalist who authored books that tackled topics ranging from a prime minister’s involvement in jet purchases to the murders of women on a British Columbia pig farm has died. Stevie Cameron died Saturday at home in Toronto from Parkinson’s, her daughter Amy Cameron said, noting her mother also had dementia. She was 80. Among Cameron’s best-known works is an investigation she did into then-prime minister Brian Mulroney’s involvement in the purchase of new Airbus jets. Cameron was accused of being an informant for the RCMP when they launched their own investigation, but those accusations were later recanted. Amy Cameron said her mother believed in speaking truth to power but power sometimes fought back, and the accusation that she was a police informant was…

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