19 Facts About Peter Worthington

Peter John Vickers Worthington was a Canadian journalist.

Peter Worthington remained with the Telegram until it folded in 1971.

Peter Worthington was the founding editor of the Toronto Sun newspaper, which was created by former Telegram employees upon that newspaper's demise.

In 1996 Peter Worthington was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame.

Worthington, Peter Worthington was a veteran of both the Second World War and the Korean War.

Peter Worthington joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1944, at the age of 17, and served as an air gunner in the Fleet Air Arm, and briefly in the United Kingdom, until his discharge in 1946 with the rank of Sub-Lieutenant.

Peter Worthington left the university before completing his degree and joined Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry as a Lieutenant in 1950.

Peter Worthington was in the North East frontier of India and China when Chinese forces invaded in that same year.

Peter Worthington covered the trial of Jack Ruby in February 1964.

Peter Worthington covered the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970 in a series of reports that resulted in his second of four National Newspaper Awards and a National Newspaper Citation.

Peter Worthington assumed the title editor-in-chief in 1976 when former Toronto Telegram editor-in-chief JD MacFarlane was hired in order to make clear that he didn't answer to MacFarlane, who was forced to take the title "editorial director" instead.

Peter Worthington resigned from the Sun's board of directors and as editor in 1982 after the board voted to accept an offer by Maclean-Hunter to purchase the Sun chain; fearing that the newspaper would lose its independence, he cast the sole dissenting vote against the sale.

Peter Worthington then ran in the by-election as an independent candidate, and placed a strong second to the winner, New Democrat Lynn McDonald, and ahead of the official Tory candidate.

Peter Worthington succeeded in becoming the official Progressive Conservative nominee for the riding in the 1984 general election, but was again defeated by McDonald.

Peter Worthington filed a complaint against the Ottawa Citizen with the Ontario Press Council and won an apology for its error.

Peter Worthington was re-hired soon after to be founding editor of the Ottawa Sun for a year, when that paper was relaunched as a daily, and returned to the Toronto Sun and the Sun chain as a columnist.

Peter Worthington continued up until his death as a columnist for Sun Media's parent, QMI.

Peter Worthington was married to Yvonne Crittenden and is stepfather of conservative writer Danielle Crittenden, wife of writer and political advisor David Frum.

Peter Worthington died in Toronto on May 12,2013, after spending four days in Toronto General Hospital with a serious staph infection that compromised his heart, kidneys and other organs.