Star columnist Jim Travers dies

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OTTAWA—James Travers, an award-winning national columnist and former executive managing editor for the Toronto Star, has died.

Travers, 62, died from complications following surgery on his spleen.

“Jim was a first-rate friend of many years and a journalist I enormously admired,” said Star publisher John Cruickshank.

Irreverent, passionate and with a sense of humour worthy of a comedy star, Travers was a larger-than-life figure who excelled as a foreign correspondent, editor and columnist.

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