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Peter Liba

The Honorable
Peter Michael Liba
CM OM
22nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
In office
March 2, 1999 – June 30, 2004
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
(1940-05-10)May 10, 1940
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died June 21, 2007(2007-06-21) (aged 67)
Lake of the Woods
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.


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