Max Keeping’s work was in broadcasting. But his vocation — his life — was in helping. And that’s how Ottawa remembered him Thursday as news of his death at age 73 rippled across the city. Perhaps ...

In the seconds leading up to each 6 p.m. newscast, Ottawa broadcaster Max Keeping would secure a red rose firmly on his lapel, then look into the camera and imagine the faces of the million people he ...

Max Keeping rose to prominence in this town as the anchor of the dinner-hour news, but to those who are too young to fully appreciate his 40-year career at CJOH-TV (later CTV Ottawa), and probably ...

The people on television are not real. At our first encounter, Max Keeping taught me so. In 1986, the Citizen did a “town hall” project with CJOH about the current state of the city, a set of ...

The Max Keeping service had just ended and Tony Sullivan, 59, was climbing into the cab of his five-tonne truck, a light rain falling in the desolate parking lot of the Canadian Tire Centre. “I’m just ...