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Canadian comedian Dave Broadfoot, known for his long run on comedy show Royal Canadian Air Farce, has died, CBC News has confirmed. He was 90. Broadfoot was a fixture on 1950s and ’60s CBC television shows such as The Big Revue, The Wayne and Shuster Show and Comedy Cafe. Beginning in 1973, he was a cast member of the radio version of Royal Canadian Air Farce, where he remained for the next 20 years, alongside fellow cast members Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Luba Goy and…...

TORONTO -- Filmmaker Norman Jewison, stage actor Douglas Campbell and screenwriter-actress Micheline Lanctot are among six Canadians to receive Governor General's performing arts awards, it was announced Tuesday. Also singled out for lifetime artistic achievement awards are soprano Pierrette Alarie, singer Ian Tyson of the popular folk duo Ian and Sylvia and comedian Dave Broadfoot, a founding and one-time member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy troupe. Jewison -- a film and TV director, producer, writer and actor and founder of the Canadian Center for Advanced Film Studies -- is known for such Hollywood hits as 1975's "Rollerball", "In the Heat of the Night" and "Moonstruck". Campbell has long been associated with the Stratford Festival, and Lanctot is best known for her role in "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz." The awards will be handed out at a gala ceremony Nov. 7 in Ottawa.