Eric Linkord Byfield (December 5, 1951 – January 24, 2015) was a Canadian news columnist, author, and politician.
[3] One of six siblings born to Ted, a conservative columnist, and Virginia Byfield, Link became a columnist for the Calgary Sun[4] and occasionally was published in the Calgary Herald, National Post,[5] Globe and Mail[6] and Winnipeg Free Press.
[7] Byfield founded the Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy, a lobby group dedicated to "advocating responsible government.
[14] On January 24, 2015, Byfield died of liver and esophageal cancer, aged 63, in the Sturgeon Community Hospital in St. Albert, Alberta, just north of Edmonton.
[15] A tribute held in Byfield's honour at Calgary's Manning Centre for Building Democracy in September feted him as a key figure in western conservatism.