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June Callwood: Canada's Conscience

No one is excluded in the world of June Callwood. The celebrated journalist/activist with a "just fix it" attitude has worked tirelessly for countless causes. She has helped found over 50 social organizations including Nellie's women's shelter and Casey House, Canada's first AIDS hospice. Dubbed St. June, the woman with movie star good looks and an unwavering capacity for compassion, has battled personal tragedy, depression and controversy in a long life that has served as Canada's conscience.

 
Callwood's unhappy childhood

 
Celebrated journalist

 
Where's there's a cause, there's Callwood

 Callwood's unhappy childhood

Growing up in Belle River, Ontario. (TV; runs 0:52)

 Celebrated journalist

Callwood talks about her early career highs. (Radio; runs 5:11)

 Where's there's a cause, there's Callwood

Callwood talks about the troubled teens that propelled her into social activism. (Radio; runs 3:13)

 
Choosing truth over false eyelashes

 
Callwood as ghostwriter

A storybook marriage

 Choosing truth over false eyelashes

Callwood find success as the host of CBC TV's In Touch. (TV; runs 3:16)

 Callwood as ghostwriter

Ghosting for Barbara Walters, Otto Preminger and Dr. Charles Mayo. (TV; runs 8:24)

 A storybook marriage

June Callwood and her husband Trent Frayne on their rock solid relationship. (TV; runs 10:30)

 
Struck by tragedy

 
Labelled a 'racist'

 
Living with cancer

 Struck by tragedy

Callwood on battling depression, her daughter's accident and the death of her youngest son. (Radio; runs 5:39)

 Labelled a 'racist'

Nellie's board members accuse its founder of racism. (TV; runs 4:00)

 Living with cancer

Eighty-year-old Callwood welcomes death. (Radio; runs 1:25)

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