Betty Margaret Hannah Kennedy OC (née Styran; January 4, 1926 – March 20, 2017) was a Canadian broadcaster, journalist, author, and Senator.
She also executive-produced Leave this Not to Cain (narrated by Pierre Berton), This Vibrant Land, and she hosted An Eye for Eternity (the international fine arts exhibition at Montreal).
[2] She was soon hired away by CFRB in Toronto where she became host of The Betty Kennedy Show..." This portion of the Biography is pure fiction.
Betty never graduated from high school: she dropped out at age sixteen to become, first, a copyboy at the Ottawa Citizen, and eventually a bylined journalist for the paper.
Her next employment was as a Fashion Coordinator at Bruck Mills in Montreal; following this, she became the first woman Public Relations Officer for CIL in Toronto (c. 1948).
It wasn't until the early 1950s in Calgary that she began seriously doing radio work, in the form of a "weekly panel discussion program on current events, along with two other panelists, Fred Colborn, a member of the provincial Parliament, and Dr. Morris Carnat, a prominent psychiatrist."