commentary on the 2013 suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons also led to Parsons' father accusing Blatchford of victim blaming. In June 2018, Blatchford said of a press subsidy: "God forbid Ottawa should start to subsidize newspapers too. As a journalist, the thought gives me the shudders." Illness and death After having to cut short her assignment covering the 2019 federal election campaign due to nagging muscle pain, Blatchford was diagnosed in November 2019 with lung cancer which was found to have metastasized to bones in the spine and hip by the time it was detected. Blatchford was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame the same month, but was unable to attend the ceremony. She took leave from writing her column and sought treatment at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre where she underwent several months of surgeries, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy. She died in Toronto on February 12, 2020. Bibliography Non-fiction Humour In the 1980s, Blatchford published two collections of her humour-oriented Toronto Sun columns. Spectator Sports (1986) Close Encounters (1988) Reportage Beginning in 2007, Blatchford began publishing book-length non-fiction reportage. Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2007) The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer (2008) Helpless: Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us (2010) Life Sentence: Stories From Four Decades of Court Reporting - Or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian Justice System (2016) See also List of newspaper columnists References External links Blatchford interview on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos 1951 births 2020 deaths Canadian memoirists Hockey writers People from Rouyn-Noranda Anglophone Quebec people Toronto Metropolitan University alumni Canadian monarchists Toronto Star people Toronto Sun people The Globe and Mail columnists Canadian columnists Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers National Post people Canadian women memoirists Canadian women columnists Canadian radio reporters and correspondents Canadian war correspondents War correspondents of the Yugoslav Wars War correspondents of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Women war correspondents Canadian women sportswriters Crime journalists Deaths from lung cancer in Ontario Canadian women radio journalists