Former CRTC Chair John Meisel has passed away at 101 - Broadcast Dialogue

Former CRTC Chair John Meisel has passed away at 101 - Broadcast Dialogue

John Meisel, who served as the Chair of the CRTC from 1979 to 1983, has passed away at the age of 101. According to an obituary published in the Kingston Whig Standard this week, the Queen’s University Professor Emeritus died peacefully on March 30. Born in Vienna, Austria to Jewish Czech parents, the Meisel family was sent abroad by the Bata Shoe Company where Meisel’s father worked, as the Nazi occupation loomed. Jewish employees were dispatch…

Former CRTC chair John Meisel dies at 101 - The Wire Report

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