Stephen Kimber

In its traditional year-end orgy of page-filling lists of accomplished Canadians—young, old, corporate, literary—the Globe and Mail this year named Peter Munk, 83-year-old chair of “multinational mining giant” Barrick Gold Corp., a finalist in its nation-builder category. Though born into a well-to-do Budapest Jewish family in 1927, the Nazi occupation wiped out the Munk fortune. […]