Background
Born in Fort Saint John, British Columbia, Mazurin grew up in Penticton, and later studied journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
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Alexis Mazurin
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British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Career
He subsequently joined Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio, hosting the series Pass the Mic and Out There before joining Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio 3 in 2003. (At the time, Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio 3 did not exist in its current form as a satellite radio network, but was a program on Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio 2)
While attending Burning Manitoba in September 2005, Mazurin suffered a massive heart attack. He was rushed to hospital in Reno, where he fell into a coma.
He was transferred to Vancouver"s Saint Paul"s Hospital, where he remained in the coma until his death a month later.
Mazurin was also a writer and performer with the Vancouver comedy troupe the Hot Sauce Posse, and was a practitioner of the martial art capoeira. With Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio 3"s launch on satellite radio in December 2005, the network"s main studio in Vancouver was named the Alexis Mazurin Studio in his memory.
In 2006, on the first anniversary of his death, many of the network"s staff wrote about their memories of Mazurin in the network"s blog.
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Canadian