charles bradley templeton (october 7 1915 - june 7 2001) was a canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author. at the age of 17 during the great depression, "chuck templeton" (as he was then known) got his first job as a sports cartoonist for "the globe and mail". this would be the first of many of his careers. in the late 1990s, he was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. he died from problems with the disease in 2001.