Bill Davis
William Grenville Davis, (July 30, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985. Behind Oliver Mowat, Davis was the second-longest serving premier of Ontario.Born in Toronto, Davis was a lawyer before being elected as a Progressive Conservative member of provincial Parliament for Peel in the 1959 provincial election. He was a backbencher in the Conservative caucus until 1962, when he was appointed minister of education under John Robarts. During this period, Davis created the community college system and the educational television network now known as TVO.
In 1971, he succeeded Robarts as the premier of Ontario and held the position until resigning in 1985. He led the Progressive Conservatives to victory in four consecutive elections, winning two majority governments and two minority governments. As premier, Davis was responsible for the cancellation of the Spadina Expressway, the funding of Catholic secondary schools through grade 12, the formation of Canada's first Ministry of the Environment, and rent control, as well as playing a large role in the patriation of the Constitution of Canada. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Victoria Jeisy-Scott, William G Davis, Jenish R Patel, John Bradford Bowzard, Wun-Ju Shieh, Sherif R Zaki, Jacqueline M Katz, Suryaprakash SambharaGet full text
Published 2011-01-01
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2by William G Davis, J Bradford Bowzard, Suresh D Sharma, Mayim E Wiens, Priya Ranjan, Shivaprakash Gangappa, Olga Stuchlik, Jan Pohl, Ruben O Donis, Jacqueline M Katz, Craig E Cameron, Takashi Fujita, Suryaprakash SambharaGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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3by Bo Shu, Marie K. Kirby, William G. Davis, Christine Warnes, Jimma Liddell, Ji Liu, Kai-Hui Wu, Norman Hassell, Alvaro J. Benitez, Malania M. Wilson, Matthew W. Keller, Benjamin L. Rambo-Martin, Yamundow Camara, Jörn Winter, Rebecca J. Kondor, Bin Zhou, Stacey Spies, Laura E. Rose, Jonas M. Winchell, Brandi M. Limbago, David E. Wentworth, John R. BarnesGet full text
Published 2021-07-01
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4by Shannon L.M. Whitmer, Thomas Strecker, Daniel Cadar, Hans-Peter Dienes, Kelly Faber, Ketan Patel, Shelley M. Brown, William G. Davis, John D. Klena, Pierre E. Rollin, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Bernd Noack, Petra Emmerich, Toni Rieger, Svenja Wolff, Sarah Katharina Fehling, Markus Eickmann, Jan Philipp Mengel, Tilman Schultze, Torsten Hain, William Ampofo, Kofi Bonney, Juliana Naa Dedei Aryeequaye, Bruce Ribner, Jay B. Varkey, Aneesh K. Mehta, G. Marshall Lyon, Gerrit Kann, Philipp De Leuw, Gundolf Schuettfort, Christoph Stephan, Ulrike Wieland, Jochen W.U. Fries, Matthias Kochanek, Colleen S. Kraft, Timo Wolf, Stuart T. Nichol, Stephan Becker, Ute Ströher, Stephan GüntherGet full text
Published 2018-03-01
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