Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Economy, John W.L. Winder was a pioneer in the field of Canadian econometric forecasting models. He died on October 23, 2024, at the age of 92 after having dedicated his life to his work, the University of Toronto, and St. Thomas Anglican Church, just 90 meters from the Department of Economics. The archives of the October 1962 Staff Bulletin outlined his first appointment as assistant professor of economics. Educated at both the University of Toronto and at the University of Chicago, the Bulletin said, Winder was with the Institute for Economic Research at Queen’s University, had business experience with A. V. Roe Canada Ltd., and the Toronto Daily Star. Immediately prior to joining the University of Toronto he had been on faculty at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. [Read more…]