Warner Troyer (16 January 1932 – 15 September 1991) was a Canadian broadcast journalist and writer. Troyer was born in

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, the son of Gordon Troyer, a

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circuit minister. He lost his leg at a young age, and later worked with Patrick Watson who also had a missing leg. Troyer began his career as an overnight radio disc jockey in

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, then became the first radio reporter in the

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and was not even allowed in the press gallery. He then moved to the

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and worked as a news reporter for CKRC radio 630kc. He was later featured on the 1960s

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current affairs program '' This Hour Has Seven Days''. In 1975, Troyer co-hosted the first season of '' the fifth estate'' with

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, also on CBC. He was also involved in the production of

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's ''Eye-To-Eye'' program and was for a time executive producer and co-host of W5 on CTV. In 1976, Troyer provided commentaries following episodes of ''

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'' as they were broadcast on commercial-free

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. He also interviewed

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about the series for a TVOntario broadcast in 1977 and was credited as a consultant in the 1976 TVOntario publication ''The Prisoner Puzzle''. ''No Safe Place'' (), published in 1977, was a book by Troyer about

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in Northern Ontario waters. His 1980 book ''200 Days: Joe Clark in Power'' () was an examination of the short-lived Progressive Conservative administration of Prime Minister

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, which was a 1979 minority government, defeated in a

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late that year. He also wrote a book on the history of Canadian radio and television broadcasting, ''The Sound & the Fury: An Anecdotal History of Canadian Broadcasting'' (), published in 1982. Troyer married his first wife, Margaret and had six children: Marc, Scott, Jill, Jennifer, Peggy and John. He also had two children, Peter and Anne, with his second wife. In the early 1980s, Troyer and his third wife, Glenys Moss, established a journalism school in

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. In his later years he focused on environmental issues. Troyer was listed as a consultant for ''The Canadian Green Consumer Guide'' (), published in 1989, and wrote ''Preserving Our World: A Consumer's Guide to the

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'' (), published in 1990. Troyer contracted

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and died in Toronto at age 59.

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