"At 3:39 this morning, my dad Harry Leslie Smith died. A look back on the life of WWII veteran, social activist Harry Leslie SmithProminent social activist and author Harry Leslie Smith died on November 27, 2018, in an eastern Ontario hospital at the age of 95. Smith's speech at the 2014 British Labour Party conference about the difficulties of life before the country's National Health Service moved many to tears. Harry Leslie Smith in the Calais Jungle, a refugee and migrant encampment in use from January 2015 to October 2016 in Calais, France. (Harry Leslie Smith )Former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband tweeted that Smith was "one of a kind who never wavered in his fight for equality and justice.

Source: CBC News November 28, 2018 09:51 UTC