#lester pearson

[dadsinsuits]

Lester B. Pearson

[jawbonejoe]

I class Lester Pearson and Kim Kitsuragi in the same archetype of an incredibly well written character for whom part of their nuance is that they’re a policeman who has absolutely drank the police coolaid

[oldshowbiz]

1967.

Who among us doesn't enjoy a singing impression of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and a doddering John Diefenbaker?

[sporclechezchunklets]

More Spengler Cup stuff! The tournament grew out of some early-1920s games, one of which is shown above, between Oxford University (in white) and the Swiss national team. The guy indicated by the red arrow, playing for Oxford, is future Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson.

[theleftycanadianradical]

I wish #IStandWithTrudeau twitter, understood how right-wing a Liberal Majority with a CPC opposition really is and stopped poopooing Jagmeet Singh and the NDP for trying to keep the Liberal party *liberal*, rather than letting it veer off so far to the right with the Conservatives. I know they really like him, but it often seems more rooted in celebrity fanfare, than public policy that affects our lives in Canada. Justin Trudeau is no Lester B. Pearson. This is a very different Liberal party than the one that brought us things like Medicare and Old Age Security while working with the NDP.

[l-egypte]

November 21, 2020 | Now You Know Canada (2017)

I thought I ought to know something about my own country, which is Canada, so I decided to read Now You Know Canada: 150 Years of Fascinating Facts (2017) by Doug Lennox. It’s an alright book, but there is just too many sports facts, and as much as I cheered for the Raptors in 2019 throughout the NBA season (which they won!) and cheer on Canada in any international competitions, I am not that interested in sports. If my calculations are correct, more than 50% of the book is on sports. Like... why!? Is Canada so boring, that most of our “interesting” facts are sports related!? Kind of sad...

Anyways, I didn’t think Canada would have much, if any, connection with Egypt, at least not in this kind of book (it’s quite far from Egypt, and it’s a rather new country). But, alas, I was surprised. Lester B. Pearson, who was the minister of foreign affairs (and later prime minister) and who the international airport in Toronto is named after, received the Nobel Peace Prize in defusing a potential international disaster, in which Egypt was involved. The potential disaster was the 1956 Suez Crisis.

You can read more about Pearson’s involvement in the 1956 Suez Crisis at the Canadian Encyclopedia: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/suez-crisis. And here’s a chronology of the Suez Crisis: http://www.suezcrisis.ca/chronology.html.

[Screenshot of a page from the eBook version of Now You Know Canada]

[gregorygalloway]

Lester Bowles Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) 

[dadsinsuits]

Lester B. Pearson