Elizabeth Aird

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Vancouver has lost one of its most vivacious writers. Elizabeth Aird, a Vancouver Sun columnist and film critic in the 1990s, died suddenly at her Kerrisdale home on June 27, 2006. She was on medical leave at the time.

Aird, 50, was a publicist for such movies as Cold Front and Bird on a Wire before joining the paper. As a columnist, she often wrote about leaky condos, helping bring this issue into the public spotlight. Aird herself experienced the agony of owning a leaky condo on Vancouver's West Side, which gave her deep insights and empathy for others in similar situations. She lost her column in 1996, shortly after John Cruickshank became editor-in-chief of The Vancouver Sun.

Aird was often loud, usually brash, and almost always sweet to everyone around her. She is survived by her mother and father, Jo Ann and Hugh Aird, her sisters Louise and Deborah, and her brother-in-law Bill Howe. 

The Georgia Straight, 2006

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