Hal Wake, former CBC host and Vancouver Writers Fest artistic director, dead at 73

Hal Wake, former CBC host and Vancouver Writers Fest artistic director, dead at 73

Hal Wake worked for CBC Radio for 17 years, hosted The Early Edition in Vancouver and was a stalwart of Canadian literature. He's described by a former CBC co-worker as a man who "loved finding unexpected angles to stories, quirky characters and spontaneous moments within interviews that made you sit up and take notice."