Mel Watkins: Engagement For The Common Good

https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/04/mel-watkins-engagement-common-good
Date Written:  2020-04-08
Publisher:  Rabble
Year Published:  2020
Resource Type:  Article

My dear friend and close associate Melville (Mel) Henry Watkins (1932-2020), the celebrated Canadian political economist, passed away in Ottawa on April 2, 2020, with his beloved wife Kelly Crichton by his side.

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My dear friend and close associate Melville (Mel) Henry Watkins (1932-2020), the celebrated Canadian political economist, passed away in Ottawa on April 2, 2020, with his beloved wife Kelly Crichton by his side.

The romance that led to Mel and Kelly marrying was not without unanticipated obstacles.When they began seeing each other, Kelly, who was working in radio (she would eventually become a senior reporter for CBC’s flagship The National, and later its executive producer) judged it best to inform her superiors that she was dating Mel Watkins, former leader of the radical Waffle movement within the NDP.