He was born in
Yorkton,
Saskatchewan, in 1953. In 1992, he ran in the
Calgary-Buffalo by-election as
Progressive Conservative, receiving just 15% of the vote. In 1998, he established Rod Love Consulting Inc. Love attended the
University of Alberta and the
University of Calgary and was a member of the board of governors of the University of Calgary and the
Canada West Foundation. In 2012, Love was a co-host with
Karin Klassen of
Type A, a
CBC Radio One talk show about the Canadian
economy. He died at home surrounded by his family on October 26, 2014, of pancreatic cancer, aged 61. ==References==