The Honorable Peter Michael Liba CM OM |
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22nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba | |
In office March 2, 1999 – June 30, 2004 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor General |
Roméo LeBlanc Adrienne Clarkson |
Premier |
Gary Filmon Gary Doer |
Preceded by | Yvon Dumont |
Succeeded by | John Harvard |
Personal details | |
Born |
Peter Michael Liba May 10, 1940 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Died | June 21, 2007 Lake of the Woods |
(aged 67)
Spouse(s) | Shirley Ann Collett (m. 1963) |
Profession | journalist, businessman |
Peter Michael Liba, CM OM (May 10, 1940 – June 21, 2007) was a Canadian journalist, businessman and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
Liba was born in Winnipeg, and began his journalistic career working for the Portage la Prairie Daily Telegraph and the Neepawa Press. He joined the Winnipeg Tribune in 1960, and became its city editor in 1967. An executive assistant to the leadership of the Manitoba Liberal Party between 1968 and 1973, working under Gildas Molgat, Robert Bend and Israel Asper, in 1974 he joined Asper's CanWest group of companies, eventually becoming president and CEO of CKND-TV in Manitoba and SaskWest TV in Saskatchewan. He served on the Board of Directors of Atomic Energy of Canada from 1981 to 1986 with Marc Lalonde.
In 1993 he was appointed executive vice-president of CanWest Global Communications Corp and was promoted to executive director of corporate affairs in 1997. He also served two terms as chairman of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, and was also president of the Western Association of Broadcasters and the Broadcasters Association of Manitoba. President of his own company, Peli Ventures Inc., from 1975 he was actively involved in several social and philanthropic groups in the Winnipeg area. In 1984 Liba was appointed a member of the Order of Canada and in 1998 was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.