15 – Ken Reardon, ice hockey defenceman (Montreal Canadiens)(born 1921) March 18 – Geoffrey Pearson, diplomat (born 1927) March 21 – George Gross, sports journalist, founding sports editor of the Toronto Sun (born 1923) March 24 – Sherri Wood, journalist (Toronto Sun) (born 1979) March 28 – Lorne Ferguson, ice hockey player (born 1930) April April 1 – Jake Warren, diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (b. 1921) April 10 – Francis Coleman, conductor, television producer and director (born 1924) April 22 – Ed Chynoweth, president of the Western Hockey League (1972–1995) and CHL (1975–1995) (born 1941) April 23 Martha Kostuch, environmentalist (born 1949) Don Gillis, (born 1922) April 24 – Harry Geris, Olympic wrestler (born 1947) April 26 – Henry Brant, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (born 1913) April 30 – Allan Sparrow, activist and Toronto city councillor (1974–1980) (born 1944) May May 3 – Charles Caccia, politician (born 1930) May 9 – Arthur Kroeger, civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002) (born 1932) May 11 – John Rutsey, drummer (Rush) (born 1953) May 17 Joyce Trimmer, politician and first female mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (born 1927) D. Aubrey Moodie, politician (born 1908) May 19 – Jack Duffy, actor and comedian (born 1926) May 20 – Cy Leonard, ventriloquist (born 1926) May 29 – Luc Bourdon, ice hockey player (born 1987) June June 2 – Sheela Basrur, medical doctor and Chief Medical Officer of Health in Ontario (born 1956) June 3 – Pat Egan, ice hockey defenceman (born 1918) June 4 – Jack Byrne (politician), member of Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, mayor of LB-MC-OC (1986–1993) (born 1951) June 6 – Edwin Tchorzewski, politician (born 1943) June 8 – Charles-Noël Barbès, politician and lawyer (born 1914) June 11 James Reaney, poet, playwright and literary critic (born 1926) Brian Budd, soccer player (born 1952) June 15 – Ray Getliffe, ice hockey player (born 1914) June 20 – Bea Firth, politician (born 1946) June 21 – William Vince, film producer, Academy Award nominee (born 1963) June 25 – Bill Robinson, ice hockey player (born 1921) June 30 – Arthur Ryan Smith, serviceman, politician and Order of Canada recipient (born 1919) July July 3 – Oliver Schroer, fiddler, composer and music producer (born 1956) July 6 – Bob Ackles, executive for the CFL's BC Lions (born 1938) July 14 – Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet,