SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. A statement on his website says the former CBC Radio host died Wednesday at Lady Minto Hospital on Salt Spring Island, B.C., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Black spent 30 years at the CBC, where he hosted the Saturday morning radio program “Basic Black” for nearly two decades until his retirement in 2002. If they were I’d be signed up for the Old Timers’ Decathlon and Trump would be waving his diagnosis around yelling PANCREATIC CANCER??? He, and his singular brand of humour, will be deeply missed,” CBC Radio host Shelagh Rogers posted on Twitter.

Source: National Post February 22, 2018 17:15 UTC