I am the editor of The Globe and Mail’s editorial obituaries, which are articles written by journalists about public figures.

“Well,” the wife said, “let me help you out. I’ll tell you what not to write. Do not say I was the life of the party, that my smile lit up a room, or that I never met a stranger. Those phrases, while ...

In one of the last pictures taken of Carol Sauer, she’s sitting at the Arlington bus stop where she often spent her time. It ...

A Manitoba woman is calling for a ban on third-party websites that aggregate obituaries publicly shared online.

And eight chaotic years (or more?) as president (assuming he makes it that far) guarantee him a monster (and I do indeed use that word advisedly) set of obituaries when he dies, whereas almost a ...

Having reached a certain age and long been fascinated by obituaries, I sometimes think about both Donald Trump’s and my own. At 79, he’s just slightly ...

The writer lived in the Borders and excelled in historical novels which merged the personal and political.

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not ...

Adam McNaughtan, songwriter, teacher and archivist. Born: 1939 in Glasgow. Died: 2 December 2025 in Glasgow, aged 86 ...

How does she do it, grip each new generation with her thrillers? On her 50th death anniversary, we add it all up: truth, toxins, an unerring eye for detail.

She won a Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1979 and hosted an intellectual salon in the U.S. capital with her husband when ...

In Tim Weed's story of love and obsession, Esme Weatherhead returns to her Vermont home to write the story of a man who went missing ...