death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
london , ontario 11 february 2014 montreal , quebec canadian 02 july 1933 global news anchor , '' toronto star '' columnist peter desbarats
 peter desbarats journalist , writer
peter desbarats

peter hullett desbarats , oc -lrb- july 2 , 1933 -- february 11 , 2014 -rrb- was a canadian author , playwright and journalist .
he was also the dean of journalism at the university of western ontario -lrb- 1981 -- 1997 -rrb- , a former commissioner in the somalia inquiry and a former maclean-hunter chair of communications ethics at ryerson university in toronto , ontario .
until his death from alzheimer 's disease , he lived in a heritage home with his actress wife hazel in the east woodfield heritage conservation district in london , ontario .
