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Harlan Clark was one of those small, quiet, essential Toronto institutions. He and his wife Norine started a Port Perry chicken farm in 1946; one year later they began selling eggs at St. Lawrence Market. According to a profile of the couple in the Toronto Star last year, one or both have them have been at the market every single Saturday since. That's sixty-two years' worth of providing us with sustenance, and not just of the physical variety. The Clarks were known for selling some of the freshest eggs in the city, from some of the most carefully tended chickens, and their smiles every Saturday conveyed the essence of thoughtful, local farming long before it was trendy to care about such things. Mr. Clark passed away unexpectedly yesterday, at the age of eighty-seven. Even by near-strangers, the ones who wandered by the market stall on an occasional weekend morning, Mr. Clark will be missed.

Legendary radio announcer Martin Streek, most famous for his work on CFNY/Edge 102 over several decades, before being unceremoniously fired from the station in May, is dead. He committed suicide on Monday.

Derek Weiler, editor of Quill & Quire since 2004, has died, at age forty. The Globe's Martin Levin says that he knows "virtually no details about Derek's death, other than that he had been in poor health for many years, and virtually never talked about it," going on to tell about Weiler's tattoo, which reads "I can't go on. I will go on"—a quotation from Waiting for Godot, and the title, now, of a Facebook group in Weiler's memory. Says Levin: "I can say about Derek without the exaggeration often associated with immediate bereavement: He was a good man, the world was better for his having been here, and I am glad to have known him. There will be many teary eyes today, not just in Toronto, but throughout Canada." [via Bookninja]

Veteran stage actor William Hutt, famous for his many seasons playing all the great Shakespearean roles at Stratford, died today of leukemia at Stratford General Hospital at the age of 87. As a founding member of the Stratford Festival, Hutt acted and directed in 130 productions.