He was also involved in the production of CBWT's Eye-To-Eye program and was for a time executive producer and co-host of W5 on CTV.
No Safe Place (ISBN 0-772-01117-6), published in 1977, was a book by Troyer about mercury poisoning in Northern Ontario waters.
His 1980 book 200 Days: Joe Clark in Power (ISBN 0-920510-05-1) was an examination of the short-lived Progressive Conservative administration of Prime Minister Joe Clark, which was a 1979 minority government, defeated in a motion of non-confidence late that year.
Troyer married his first wife, Margaret and had six children: Marc, Scott, Jill, Jennifer, Peggy and John.
In the early 1980s, Troyer and his third wife, Glenys Moss, established a journalism school in Sri Lanka.