Stanley Burke Jr. (February 8, 1923 – May 28, 2016) was a Canadian television journalist.
Born February 8, 1923, Burke's father was businessman Stanley Burke, founder of Pemberton Securities, a stockbrokerage firm in Western Canada.
[1] His brother was Lieutenant-Commander Cornelius Burke, a prominent Royal Canadian Navy officer during World War II.
The show was renamed The National after he resigned to launch a public campaign to bring attention to the Nigerian Civil War and the humanitarian crisis in the secessionist state of Biafra.
Following his retirement from the CBC, Burke also wrote a number of books satirizing Canadian politics in the form of children's stories, including Frog Fables and Beaver Tales, The Day of the Glorious Revolution and Swamp Song.