Jim Travers, Toronton Star columnist, dead at 62

Toronto Star columnist James Travers has died. He was 62.
Star publisher John Cruickshank says the veteran national affairs writer died following a stint in an Ottawa hospital last week. The cause of death was not immediately released.
Travers began his journalism career in 1972 and eventually became a foreign correspondent and editor for Southam News.
He became editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen in 1991 and held the job for five years before moving to the Star.
His 2009 column about the increasing power of the Prime Minister's Office over Parliament won him a National Newspaper Award last year.Travers is survived by his wife and two sons.