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  Eric Kierans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric William Kierans (February 2, 1914 - May 9, 2004) was a Canadian economist and politician.
Kierans became president of the Quebec Liberal Party and clashed with fellow cabinet minister René Lévesque in 1967, daring him to give up the idea of Quebec separatism or quit the Liberal Party.
Kierans served as Postmaster-General and Minister of Communications in the cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
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 Eric Kierans biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kierans became president of the Quebec Liberal Party and clashed with Rene Levesque in 1967 daring him to give up separatism or quit the Liberal Party.
Kierans moved to federal politics running unsuccessfully for in the 1968 Liberal leadership convention and then winning a seat in the House of Commons in the 1968 federal election.
Kierans served as postmaster-general and minister of communications in the cabinet of Pierre Trudeau but did not run for re-election in 1972 partly as a result of his criticisms of Trudeau's economic policy.
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Kierans, who grew up in a lower middle class house in a neighbourhood near the Lachine Canal in Montreal and spent his early years climbing the hill to get his education from the Jesuits at Loyola College, clearly was no admirer of Holt's personal style or business methods.
Kierans was chums with all-stars of the Canadian political scene in those years because he served in the governments of Quebec Premier Jean Lesage (1960 to 1966), ran and came last in the 1968 federal Liberal leadership race and served in the first government of Pierre Trudeau (1968-1972), as postmaster general and later communications minister.
Eric Kierans was born of an Irish father, who worked as an electrician in the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, and a German mother.
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 Kierans, Eric William
Kierans, Eric William, economist, politician, businessman (b at Montréal 2 Feb 1914).
Educated at Loyola Coll and McGill, Kierans was director of the School of Commerce at McGill 1953-60, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange 1960-63 and then minister of communications and postmaster general of Canada 1968-71.
Kierans has been visiting lecturer and fellow at UBC (1984), Memorial U (1985) and the Institute for Research on Public Policy (1985-90).
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0004298   (210 words)

  
 CBC News:Eric Kierans, politician and pundit, dies at 90   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kierans was a Trudeau cabinet minister and a former federal Liberal party leadership candidate who ran against Pierre Trudeau in 1968 and lost.
Kierans was also a political commentator for CBC Radio's Morningside, appearing on the show each week with Peter Gzowski to debate federal politics with the late Dalton Camp and Stephen Lewis.
Kierans was part of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, serving in Jean Lesage's Liberal government in Quebec in the 1960s.
www.cbc.ca /stories/print/2004/05/10/canada/kierans_20040508   (254 words)

  
 Eric Kierans on DTNicholson's Wednesday-Night.com History
Eric Kierans, a headstrong economic Canadian nationalist, left- wing capitalist and one of the most inventive political minds in the Quebec and federal Liberal governments during the 1960s and 1970s, died yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital after a mild stroke.
Kierans was Quebec's minister of revenue, and later minister of health, in Jean Lesage's cabinet from 1963 to 1968.
In the general election that followed, Kierans was elected MP for the Laval riding of Duvernay and served as postmaster and minister of communications in the Trudeau cabinet.
www.wednesday-night.com /EricKierans.asp   (961 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Former cabinet minister Eric Kierans dies at 90
Kierans, who was born in Montreal on Feb. 2, 1914, died in a Montreal hospital on Monday after a lengthy illness.
Kierans was first elected to the Quebec legislature in 1963 and was re-elected in 1966.
Kierans resigned from cabinet in April 1971 and left politics in 1972.
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 Political Forums -> Eric Kierans dead at age 90
Eric Kierans dead at age 90, Brilliant guy.....
Kierans, who died yesterday in a Montreal hospital at age 90, was a cabinet minister for six years and failed in an attempt to become leader of the federal Liberal Party but this was a poor measure of his influence.
Kierans said about Trudeau (and about resigning from the federal cabinet around 1971): "Trudeau was like the Pope coming down the aisle.
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 Eric Kierans -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eric William Kierans (February 2 1914 - May 9 2004) was a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian (An expert in the science of economics) economist and politician.
Kierans became president of the Quebec Liberal Party and clashed with (Click link for more info and facts about Rene Levesque) Rene Levesque in 1967 daring him to give up (A disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists) separatism or quit the Liberal Party.
Initially a critic of (Click link for more info and facts about Walter L. Gordon) Walter L. Gordon's (Click link for more info and facts about economic nationalism) economic nationalism, Kierans' experience in government changed his mind and he became a believer in the need for state intervention in the economy.
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 Inroads: Kierans and Ryan: Politicians without pigeonholes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kierans was not part of the organizing core of the Institute because he was busy with business and academic pursuits that led to his appointment as the head of McGill's School of Commerce in 1953.
In 1967, René Lévesque attempted to persuade the Liberals to embrace Quebec sovereignty; Kierans, then president of the Liberal Party, was backed by the party's old guard against his former ally in the fight that led to the defeat of the sovereignty option.
Kierans also left, running against Trudeau to succeed Lester Pearson as federal Liberal leader in 1968 and then narrowly winning a federal seat in that year's Trudeau sweep.
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 Myodicy: Notes on Christianity and Ideas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kierans is a politician, an economist, a professor, a businessman, and a man given to minority reports.
Kierans served in a Liberal cabinet of Jean Lesage in Quebec, and then in a Liberal cabinet in Ottawa, presided over by Pierre Trudeau.
Since Kierans was born 1914, one might be tempted to look upon him as a voice from yesteryear -- nothing more.
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 Eric Karros - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Eric Karros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eric Karros - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Eric Karros.
Eric Peter Karros (born November 4, 1967 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is a former standout first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1991-2002.
He ranks as the all-time leading home run hitter in Los Angeles Dodgers history and ranks second in runs batted in.
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 Eric Kierans - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Eric Kierans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eric Kierans - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Eric Kierans.
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The orginal Eric Kierans article can be editet
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 Canadians question the proposed Mackenzie pipeline - The Berger Pipeline Inquiry - CBC Archives
University professor and former Liberal cabinet member Eric Kierans takes the microphone and unleashes a barrage of pointed questions about a pipeline development he feels is rushed, flawed and dangerous.
Kierans was also president of both the Montreal and Canadian Stock Exchanges and was a professor of economics at McGill.
Kierans sparred with Trudeau over post office reform, development of the Anik satellite, and Canadian resource policies (including pipeline development).
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 ERIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Search the ERIC Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the ERIC Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named ERIC at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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Eric qw play bingo William Kierans was a Canada economist and politician.
He was appointed Minister of Revenue and then Minister of Health in the Liberal Party of Quebec Liberal government of Premier of Quebec Jean Lesage at the time of the Quiet Revolution.
Kierans served as Postmaster-General and Minister of Communications in the Canadian cabinet of Prime Minister of Canada Minister Pierre Trudeau.
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 Eric Kierans - TheBestLinks.com - Canada, Dalhousie University, February 2, May 9, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eric Kierans - TheBestLinks.com - Canada, Dalhousie University, February 2, May 9,...
Eric Kierans, Canada, Dalhousie University, February 2, May 9, McGill...
Eric Kierens, 90, respected for candour (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1andc=Articleandcid=1084227010836andcall_pageid=968332188492) Toronto Star obituary
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 Canadians for Language Fairness
He even said that if there was only one other man in the world, he would want that man to be Rene Levesque.
Kierans, before entering politics, was President of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
The book is called "Remembering" by Eric Kierans with Walter Stewart and published by Stoddart in 2001.
www.languagefairness.ca /docs/bk_ekieransbio.htm   (238 words)

  
 Kierans, Professor Eric W., Energy—a Sign of Future Tension   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kierans, Professor Eric W., Energy—a Sign of Future Tension
Kierans, Professor Eric W. Department of Economics, McGill University
A description of the Canadian Gas Arctic Study Limited and how Kierans sees it as merely a pawn.
www.empireclubfoundation.com /details.asp?SpeechID=2030&FT=yes   (238 words)

  
 In Memoriam - CTR Vol. 28, No. 14 - May 6, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Canada lost one of her most interesting and likeable public servants on May 10 when Loyola College alumnus Eric Kierans passed away in his 91st year.
Kierans grew up in Montreal in working-class St. Henri, and attended Loyola in 1927 on a scholarship, graduating magna cum laude in 1935.
In recent years, he was a member of the editorial board of Concordia Magazine, published by Alumni Affairs.
ctr.concordia.ca /2003-04/may_20/memoriam/index.shtml   (228 words)

  
 Political Forums > Eric Kierans dead at age 90   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Political Forums > Eric Kierans dead at age 90
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May 12 2004, 01:24 AM Eric Kierans, 90
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 Online Journal of Space Communication:
Providing telecommunications services to all Canadians, including those in the North and in remote areas of the country, has always been the underlying principle of Telesat’s operations.
The Honourable Eric Kierans, Canada's first Minister of Communications, in 1969 considered the alternatives that he saw for Telesat Canada.
Eric Kierans' vision of what Telesat might accomplish encompassed such applications as satellite-linked data banks in universities and libraries, nationwide electronic newspaper publishing, tele-medicine and tele-education services; electronic funds transfer and direct-to-home satellite signal reception.
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 PeoplePast-Menu.htm
A graduate of Carleton University, Angus devoted his life to international development projects as Head of the Non-Governmental Liaison Service of the United Nations in New York and as Executive Director of the United Nations Association in Canada (UNAC) in Ottawa.
Donations in his memory may be made to the Angus Archer Memorial Fund for International Development at the UNAC (130 Slater Street, Suite 900, Ottawa, K1P 6E2).
Kierans ran against Pierre Trudeau in 1968 and lost.
www.wednesday-night.com /PeoplePast-Menu.htm   (4575 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The politics and economics of Eric Kierans : a man for all Canadas
Find in a Library: The politics and economics of Eric Kierans : a man for all Canadas
The politics and economics of Eric Kierans : a man for all Canadas
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 CBC.ca - The Montreal-am-headlines Archives
For details, visit: http://www.cbc.ca/wireless/ ____________________________________________________________ Montreal STORIES: TRUDEAU CABINET MINISTER KIERANS DIES Former Liberal cabinet minister Eric Kierans has died at the age of 90.
FULL STORY http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=qc_kierans20040510 POLICE PROBE EXPLOSIVE AIRPORT SECURITY Police and security officials at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport are investigating how a training exercise went dangerously wrong last week when a package of dynamite was mistakenly slipped into a passenger's luggage.
FULL STORY: http://cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/10/britain_abuse_hoon040510 TRUDEAU CABINET MINISTER KIERANS DIES AT 90 Former Liberal cabinet minister Eric Kierans has died at the age of 90.
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 Primary Lonergan Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
- Topics include the liberation of curiosity (R. Eric O'Connor), the search for values in economics (Eileen de Neeve), the role of symbols and images in unleashing the psyche (Charlotte Tansey), the importance of art and poetry (Martin O'Hara), and intelligent patience in the education process (Cathleen Going).
Argues that Lonergan illuminates what seem to be quite alien topics: reason as religious experience, the anxiety of existence, the existential roots of bias, and mythopoesis and mystery.
A remarkable parallel to the philosophy of history of Eric Voegelin.
nds.edu /lonergan/sei.htm   (15557 words)

  
 Kierans, Honourable Eric W., Quebec—Problems of Growth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kierans, Honourable Eric W. Minister of Revenue, Province of Quebec
Langley, Arthur J. President, The Empire Club of Canada
How To Obtain a Speech: If you would like to obtain a copy of any of the speeches from the printed book, please make your request to the Club at The Empire Club of Canada, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street West, Level "H", Toronto, Ontario, M5J 1E3.
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