Four years after leaving his position as anchor of the CBC’s suppertime news program in Montreal, Dennis Trudeau doesn’t consider himself retired.

The truth about Trudeau, who cuts a fine figure at 62, is that he’s been almost as busy since giving up the day-to-day pressure of being a chief newscaster.

He can be heard opining on international events, at 12:30pm daily on French station Corus Quebec’s Dutrizac Apres Midi.

He’s a columnist and feature writer for Montréal Centre Ville, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by Quebecor Media. Last month, he became a vice-president of Reporters Without Borders Canada, a global organization that raises awareness of press-freedom issues worldwide.

Before the closing of Corus’s AM 940 outlet in January, Trudeau did a seven-month stint as the station’s morning man.

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Her son calls her the Energizer Bunny “because she never stops.”

That’s a perfect description of Gemma Raeburn-Baynes, a community activist and remarkable woman who has worked tirelessly for the wellbeing of young people throughout her professional life.

In the five minutes she waited in a restaurant for this interview, she forged a connection with chef Richard Taitt, who wants to learn more about Raeburn-Baynes’s most recent initiative, the Triumph Through Adversity culinary arts program.

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