33 Facts About Stephen Lewis

Stephen Henry Lewis was born on November 11,1937 and is a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster, and diplomat.

Stephen Lewis was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s.

Stephen Lewis quit in 1988 and worked at various United Nations agencies during the 1990s.

Stephen Lewis was a distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University.

Stephen Lewis's parents gave him the Hebrew name "Sholem", a Yiddish derivation of the Hebrew word shalom, which means peace, because he was born on Armistice Day.

Stephen Lewis's performance was considered the highlight of the event, while Kennedy's was flat according to many members in the audience like John Brewin.

Stephen Lewis spent his third year of university at the University of British Columbia before spending his final undergraduate year back at UofT, where he failed to write his final examinations.

Stephen Lewis went to law school twice in the early 1960s, dropping out of both UofT and UBC's programs.

Stephen Lewis left his studies in the 1960s and took up a clerical position with the Socialist International, where he received an invitation to a conference in Ghana.

Stephen Lewis attended, and instead of returning to Canada, spent more than a year working, traveling, and teaching in various places in Africa.

Stephen Lewis recalled in his 2005 Massey Lectures that the relatively brief sojourn would be a key influence on his life, especially after the turn of the new millennium.

Stephen Lewis came back to Canada at the instigation of Tommy Douglas, and in 1963, at the age of 26, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Stephen Lewis's initial experience at the helm in the 1971 provincial election was a disappointment, with the party slipping from 20 seats to 19.

Stephen Lewis felt that The Waffle was threatening the credibility and stability of the party and supported a movement against the group in June 1972 on the basis that it was a party within a party.

In 1974, Stephen Lewis supported the Elliot Lake miners and advocated to Ontario Premier Bill Davis for the creation of the Royal Commission on the Health and Safety of Workers in Mines.

Stephen Lewis led a strong campaign during the 1975 election with his oratory and passion bringing new supporters to the party.

Each day, Stephen Lewis told the story of a different Ontarian in trouble, making a case that this was because of the lack of adequate legislation.

Stephen Lewis' NDP had doubled its seats from 19 to 38, surpassing the Ontario Liberal Party to become the Official Opposition.

In 1978, a frustrated Stephen Lewis stepped down as party leader and as a Member of Provincial Parliament.

In 1982, Stephen Lewis won the Gordon Sinclair Award from ACTRA for his commentary on CKEY.

From 1995 to 1999, Stephen Lewis was deputy director of UNICEF.

Stephen Lewis has been widely praised for his effectiveness in this role.

In May 2006, Stephen Lewis joined the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University as a scholar-in-residence.

In 2009, Stephen Lewis strongly criticized Pope Benedict XVI's assertion that condom use only makes the AIDS crisis worse.

In October 2009, to raise money for the foundation, Stephen Lewis helped with a campaign to dare Canadians to do something for Africa called A Dare to Remember.

Stephen Lewis faced his own personal fears as part of the campaign, and sang live on CBC's The Hour with the band the Arkells.

Stephen Lewis is the son of former federal NDP leader David Lewis and the grandson of Moishe Lewis, an activist in the Jewish Bund in Russia and the Jewish Labour Committee in Montreal.

Two of them were active and high-ranking officials within the Ontario NDP during the 1980s and 1990s: Michael Stephen Lewis was the secretary, and Janet Solberg was the president.

In 2021, Stephen Lewis publicly revealed that he is undergoing experimental treatment for inoperable abdominal cancer, which recurred three years after surgery for an earlier occurrence of the disease.

Stephen Lewis delivered the annual Massey Lecture in 2005, and it was published in book form under the title Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa.

In 2007, Stephen Lewis received the World Citizenship Award from the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, as well as the Health and Human Rights Leadership Award from Doctors of the World-USA.

Stephen Lewis was invested as a Knight Commander of the Most Dignified Order of Moshoeshoe by King Letsie III of Lesotho.

Stephen Lewis named Stephen Lewis as one of her top seven.