Dennis Trudeau, familiar to generations of Montrealers as a longtime CBC Television news anchor and across Canada as the voice of the nationally broadcast As it Happens radio show, has died.

Trudeau was 77. He died Monday in Montreal after a years-long battle with cancer.

He served as the head news anchor on CBC Newswatch (later known as Canada Now) from 1987 to 2005, delivering the headlines of the day during the suppertime broadcasts. Prior to that, he worked as a CBC radio host for the Montreal morning Daybreak program, and As It Happens.

“I had a tremendous amount of respect for him,” said former CBC journalist Tom Harrington, who worked with Trudeau first on Daybreak and later for seven years on CBC Newswatch. “He was an old-school journalist. He had worked in the newspaper busines

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