A look back on the life of WWII veteran, social activist Harry Leslie Smith

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Channel: CBC News: The National · 2018 · News & Politics

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Prominent social activist and author Harry Leslie Smith died on November 27, 2018, in an eastern Ontario hospital at the age of 95. The National's Adrienne Arsenault looks back on the extraordinary life of the man known as "the world's oldest rebel."

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