Why this Ontario town will continue to honour author Alice Munro

Greg (@GregBradyTo) speaks with Jim Ginn, Mayor of Central Huron, about why his town is committed to honouring author Alice Munro, despite revelations of a dark family secret. Munro's daughter Andrea Robin Skinner, the youngest of Munro’s children, penned a first-person essay in the Toronto Star that shed light on the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, Munro’s second husband. Skinner, who was nine years old when the abuse began, writes that her mother knew about it for decades and stayed silent.

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