Mario Roy, who led a career as a journalist and then as a daily editorialist Ang Hurry up for more than 30 years, died of cancer Thursday in Montreal. He is 72 years old.
Enter in The Press in 1981, he alternately covered court matters and the National Assembly, before directing the Arts section and the cultural pages of the newspaper.
Became a columnist in 1999, he held this position for 15 years until his retirement in 2014.
François Cardinal, Associate Publisher and Vice President, Information Ang hurry up it is described in the pages of the day as a columnist endowed with strange feathers, able to dispel any argument, assume its positions even if they are quarrelsome or disturbed.
He was a man with very direct opinions, but a very polite, righteous creature.said his cartoonist friend Serge Chapleau.
In addition to having collaborated with Radio-Canada programs such as I saw it on the radioMario Roy is the author of an essay, To end anti-Americanism; of a novel, Mentionedand the biography of Gerry Boulet, Before I leavewhere Radio-Canada OHdio produced a digital audio adaptation.
On Facebook, his colleagues (including the author of these lines) highlighted his somewhat rugged kindness, his sardonic humor and his generosity. Mario Roy did not hesitate to highlight the work of others.
In other testimonies, journalist Pascale Navarro insists that he is one of the few columnists who reflects on young feminist journalists, in itself “backlash“. Presenter Stanley Péan proves he is opened the doors of Ang Hurry up as an occasional companion.
Journalist Mohamed Lotfi, producer of the show Unknown leadersinsisted thathe was one of the first journalists in Quebec to pay attention to the dedicated artist to whom[il] finished.
Finally the author and former editor of the magazine FangPierre Huet, writes from his good friend Mario Roy that he liked his song It’s good to have a nightand especially the sentence: This is the fun who is exhausted.
the fun tired perhaps, Pierre Huet’s conclusion, but friendship and love, never.
Mario Roy is survived by his children, Juliette and Thomas, as well as his wife Joane Prince, a Radio-Canada radio journalist.
Source: Radio-Canada
