1. Barbara Frum, OC was an American-born Canadian radio and television journalist, acclaimed for her interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
16 Facts About Barbara Frum
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Barbara Frum was born Barbara Rosberg in Niagara Falls, New York, the eldest of three children of Harold Rosberg and Florence Hirschowitz Rosberg.
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Barbara Frum's mother was born in New York City, and moved to Canada in 1935, the year she got married.
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Barbara Frum was a member of Theta Kappa Sigma, Alpha chapter, her high school sorority.
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Barbara Frum studied history at the University of Toronto, where she graduated with a BA in 1959.
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Barbara Frum's daughter, Linda Frum, was a Canadian senator and a member of the Canada-Israel Committee, and her son, David Frum became a political journalist and, after he moved to the United States, was a speechwriter for George W Bush.
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Barbara Frum interviewed many notable people, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela.
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Barbara Frum received four Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists Awards, won the National Press Club of Canada Award for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Journalism in 1975, and was named to the Order of Canada in 1979.
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Barbara Frum was inducted into the Canada Walk of Fame as the most influential woman in Canadian Broadcasting.
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Barbara Frum's illness had been first diagnosed in 1974, but only a small circle of family and friends knew about it.
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Several other editorial cartoons simply depicted The Journal set with an empty anchor chair, or Barbara Frum likened to a CBC symbol.
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Barbara Frum was originally buried at Pardes Shalom Cemetery and was later reinterred at York Cemetery, Toronto, where she is buried with her husband.
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The building of the library was donated by Murray Frum as part of a redevelopment project, Frum was in the foreground on the Canadian stamp honouring CBC in 1999, a television biography, The Life and Times of Barbara Frum, was broadcast on CBC in 2002, and a day lily has been named the "Barbara Frum Day Lily" in recognition of her enthusiasm for gardening.
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Barbara Frum was appointed to the Senate of Canada as a Conservative by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in August 2009.
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Barbara Frum's son, David, is a political journalist and author of several books.
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Barbara Frum collaborated with others in coining the phrase "Axis of Evil" while a speechwriter for George W Bush.