John Edgar Webster CM (15 April 1918 – 2 March 1999) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, radio, and television personality, regarded as "king of the Vancouver airwaves"[1] from the 1950s to his retirement, in 1988.
When World War II broke out, Webster joined the British Army and rose to the rank of major, with most of his six years' service spent in the Middle East.
Webster made his mark broadcasting shorthand transcripts of testimony during a probe into corruption on Vancouver's police force.
[4] In 1990, Webster joined the long-running CBC TV program Front Page Challenge as its permanent fourth panelist until the show's cancellation in 1995.
This event resulted in the creation of the Jack Webster Foundation[6] to promote and honour excellence in journalism in British Columbia.