CBC: Lewis was a former leader of the Ontario NDP, Canadian ambassador to the United Nations and a longtime journalist and environmental activist.
The Lewis family said in a statement on Tuesday that he died peacefully in hospice care in Toronto in the early hours of the morning.
“Stephen spent the last eight years of his life battling cancer with the same indomitable energy he brought to his lifelong work: the unending struggle for justice and dignity for every human life,” the statement said.
Stephen Lewis’s son Avi Lewis was elected leader of the federal NDP on Sunday…