| 词条 | Bill Gairdner |
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| name = Bill Gairdner | image = | caption = | birth_name = William Douglas Gairdner | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|October 19, 1940}} | birth_place = Oakville, Ontario, Canada | headercolor = lightsteelblue | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates ={{MedalSport | Men's athletics}}{{MedalCountry | {{flag|Canada|1921}} }}{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}{{MedalSilver| 1963 Sao Paulo | Decathlon}} }} William Douglas "Bill" Gairdner[1] (born October 19, 1940 in Oakville, Ontario) is a retired track and field athlete who represented Canada in the men's 400 m hurdles and the men's decathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded a silver medal in decathlon event at the 1963 Pan American Games in Brazil. Gairdner attended Appleby College in Oakville, and is now a resident of Toronto. Following his hurdling career, he applied himself to the field of academia. He gained his first M.A. in 1967 (studying Structural Linguistics at Stanford University) and then earned a second one at the institution in 1969 in English Literature and Creative Writing. A year later he graduated with a Ph.D. in English Literature from Stanford. He is a published author and, among his works, BPS Books have published The Trouble with Canada, The Trouble with Democracy and Oh, Oh, Canada!. ViewpointsIn an interview in the Michael Coren Show, Gairdner asserted that all modern Western democracies are "out of control" due to deficit spending and debts. He said that Canada is nearing a precipice with Canada's health care system, what he considers to be a "mistake", taking up more and more of the nation's government budget. He also said that he thinks anything produced by government, which he sees motivated by "power and size", will end up costing twice as much as anything made by the private sector.[2] Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite Sports-Reference|accessdate=2017-09-02}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.ctstv.com/michaelcoren/?vidID=20663|publisher=Michael Coren Show|title=Author Bill Gairdner|date=November 30, 2010|accessdate=December 3, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725001728/http://www.ctstv.com/michaelcoren/?vidID=20663|archivedate=July 25, 2011|df=}} External links
19 : 1940 births|Living people|Athletes (track and field) at the 1963 Pan American Games|Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games|Canadian decathletes|Canadian expatriates in the United States|Canadian historians|Canadian male non-fiction writers|Canadian male hurdlers|Olympic track and field athletes of Canada|People from Oakville, Ontario|Stanford University alumni|Track and field athletes from Ontario|Writers from Ontario|Appleby College alumni|Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada|Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) |
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