Dave Bist is a Canadian journalist who covered the John Lennon, Yoko Ono Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in 1969 for the Montreal Gazette.
He earned a Juno Award in 1971 as "Canadian Journalist of the Year".[1]
"All kinds of people came to pay their respects, from comedian-singer Tommy Smothers to Li'l Abner cartoonist Al Capp, who kind of betrayed the price of entry by getting into a shouting match with the Peaceful Pair."