Hair stylist Rinaldo, made famous by Mila Mulroney’s bob, dead at 82
OTTAWA — An Ottawa hair stylist whose scissors tended to the tresses of some of the country’s biggest political players has died.
Rinaldo Canonico died Wednesday after undergoing heart surgery at an Ottawa hospital.
So gregarious and charismatic that he was known in political circles simply by his first name, Rinaldo was 82, although he often tried to keep his true age as secret as he did the stories that were shared by his famous clients.
“Anybody who’d ever met him wouldn’t forget him,” said Peter Clark, an international trade expert and close friend of Rinaldo, and his wife, Pat. “He didn’t operate in half measures.”