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Rafe Mair (Kenneth Rafe Mair) was born on 31 December, 1931 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian politician and radio personality. Discover Rafe Mair's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Kenneth Rafe Mair
Occupation Lawyer, pundit, radio personality, politician
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 31 December 1931
Birthday 31 December
Birthplace Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date of death 9 October, 2017
Died Place Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1931

Kenneth Rafe Mair (31 December 1931 – 9 October 2017) was a Canadian lawyer, political commentator, radio personality and politician in British Columbia, Canada.

1949

Mair entered the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1949 and went on to law in 1953.

He worked for a lumber company and then in the oil industry in Edmonton before spending three years as a claims adjuster with an insurance company.

1960

In 1960, Mair began articling with Vancouver lawyer Tom Griffiths.

1961

Called to the bar in 1961, he handled many personal injury cases.

1968

He practiced law in Vancouver until 1968, when he moved to Kamloops to join the practice of his law school classmate Jarl Whist, a Liberal who had run twice unsuccessfully against Progressive Conservative MP E. Davie Fulton.

1970

His electoral career began with his election to Kamloops city council in the early 1970s.

Previously involved with the Liberal Party, he was an opponent of the NDP government of premier Dave Barrett.

1975

He served in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as the member for Kamloops from 1975 to 1981 in the caucus of the Social Credit Party.

In his post-political career, Mair became a radio personality and political commentator, raising controversy for his views on both the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords.

He served as the plaintiff of the historic Supreme Court of Canada decision Rafe Mair v. Kari Simpson.

Mair was born in Vancouver and grew up in the neighbourhood of Kerrisdale.

His mother was Frances Tyne (née Leigh), known as Frankie, and his father was Kenneth Frederick Robert Mair, a salesman born in Auckland, New Zealand.

They had married in Vancouver 16 months earlier.

Mair became an avid fisherman and developed an interest in public affairs from his mother's work at The Province newspaper.

He won the Social Credit nomination for Kamloops in May 1975, going on to defeat NDP incumbent Gerry Anderson in the December election by 14,639 votes to 10,975.

Mair won re-election four years later by 3,309 votes.

1980

During the negotiations in 1980 and 1981 to patriate the Constitution of Canada, he was BC's chief delegate on constitutional matters.

1981

He held the seat until retiring from politics in 1981; the seat was taken over by Claude Richmond, also of the Social Credit Party.

Mair served in Premier Bill Bennett's cabinet in a variety of portfolios, including health and education.

In 1981, Mair left government and served as a radio talk show host in Vancouver at CJOR.

1984

The station fired Mair in 1984, replacing him with former premier Dave Barrett.

Mair moved to rival CKNW.

1990

In the early 1990s, he gained national notoriety and support alike for his role as an outspoken opponent of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords.

1995

Mair was a Type II diabetic and publicly announced his experiences with depression in 1995 while working as a broadcaster.

Mair authored several books on Canadian politics, including his memoirs, and was a regular columnist at the online newsmagazine The Tyee.

He was a principal contributor until his death to The Common Sense Canadian, a news and opinion site with a British Columbia focus.

He hosted a program called The Search with Rafe Mair on Joytv.

2003

Despite high ratings, his show was cancelled by CKNW in 2003, and he was subsequently hired at CKBD (600 AM), an oldies station, to start a morning talk show until the show's ending in 2005.

2005

In the fall of 2005, he became a regular commentary guest on Omni Television's prime time current affairs program, The Standard (seen in Vancouver on CHNU-TV).

2006

Mair contributed three commentaries a week until January 2006 when the Commentary segment of the program was axed.

However, he continued his relationship with The Standard, guest-hosting the program from time to time.

Until his death, he was as a regular columnist for a chain of community newspapers as well as for the online magazine The Tyee and often appeared nationally as a political commentator for several outlets including CBC Radio.

2008

In 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled in Mair's favour in Rafe Mair v. Kari Simpson, his appeal against a provincial court decision that he had defamed social activist Kari Simpson in his editorial in 1999.

Although he was traditionally considered a political conservative, Mair's views were moderate on certain issues; notably the environment and social welfare.

Disillusioned with the three mainstream federal parties, he became a significant supporter of the Green Party urging people to vote for them in recent federal and provincial elections.

Though he shied away from endorsing entire parties, he supported individual candidates, such as New Democrat candidate Svend Robinson in Vancouver Centre.

2009

In 2009, Mair publicly stated that he voted NDP in that year's election.

He had written why he thought that Premier Gordon Campbell failed British Columbians; among the reasons he cited were that the BC Liberals were destroying the publicly owned utility, BC Hydro, and were giving away British Columbia's water rights to international corporate interests.

Mair was the spokesperson for Save Our Rivers, a group organized to fight private run-of-the-river hydroelectric developments.