Micheal O'Brien (Canadian politician)
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August 21, 1950
Micheal John O'Brien | |
|---|---|
 Micheal John O'Brien October 2, 2014, in Toronto | |
| Born | Micheal John O'Brien August 21, 1950 Toronto, Canada |
| Spouse(s) |
Elaine Olive McCarty
(m. 1972; div. 1993)Jennifer Alaga-O'Brien
(m. 2016) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | mobrien |
Micheal John O'Brien (born August 21, 1950) is a Canadian commercial pilot,[1][2] humanitarian leader, journalist,[3][4] musician,[5][6][7] and politician,[8][9] who was declared a winner on election night, November 21, 1988, and despite recounts that went back and forth, he was sworn into office as elected[10] and made his Maiden Speech[11] in the House of Commons of Canada on December 23, 1988.[12][13][14]
O'Brien, a Canadian and also citizen of Ireland (European Union)[15] was born on August 21, 1950, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Toronto, Canada to Barbara O'Brien, an artist, and Edward O'Brien, an engineer and executive of Spar Aerospace's predecessor company. O'Brien's studies include human behaviour and public health including postgraduate studies in the United States.
Career
After graduating with a University of Toronto BSc and a commercial pilot's license from Maple Flying School (established by Marion Alice Orr, one of Canada's first women pilots) in Vaughan (now a city) in York Region, Ontario, O'Brien in his early 20s became the chief pilot for Specialty Air Services Limited from 1972 to 1979, flying out of what was then called Maple Airport and the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport which is still in operation today.
From 1979 through 1989 O'Brien was a publisher, writer and editor with Maclean Hunter Limited's Business Publishing Division and in 1989 acquired some of the publishing properties including "The Wednesday Report",[16][17][18] "The Canadian Yong Astronaut" (terminated in 1992[19]), and "Canadian Aerospace and Defence Technology"[20]) he published for Maclean Hunter and merged them into MPRM Group Limited and continued publishing from 1989 to 2004. O'Brien worked for a time as the Director of Operations for the Toronto Cosmetic Surgery Center[21] which he left in 2014 to both work in several Asian countries with The RINJ Foundation while completing postgraduate studies. Currently O'Brien is the editor-in-chief of the global edition of Feminine-Perspective Magazine.[22]
Humanitarian work
O'Brien was the Vice President of the Southern Alberta office of the Canadian Cancer Society in Medicine Hat, Alberta (Now defunct.) in 1970 under Dr. Paul Racine. Returning to Ontario in 1972 O'Brien undertook an extensive life of Community involvement in Richmond Hill, Ontario[23] as a hockey coach, member of the Civic Improvement Committee of town council as well as the Canada Day Committee. At some point he became involved in helping community members locate missing children and troubled teens. This led to his and his associates forming a global civil society group, the RINJ Foundation, for which he is the chief executive officer.[24]
As the RINJ Foundation co-founder, O'Brien publicly accused Facebook[25] of ignoring the RINJ Rape Is No Joke Campaign for the rights of women and several online petitions to remove pro-rape Facebook pages[broken anchor] in May 2010. O'Brien also claimed that the pages were maintained and supported by Australian college students and British teenage boys with links to the anonymous English-language imageboard website 4chan.[26] The RINJ campaign urged advertisers to cancel their advertising on the Facebook platform to avoid it being displayed on pages next to rape jokes and other pro-rape content.[27]
From 2009 through 2013, O'Brien led the RINJ campaign argument to Facebook executives that removing "pro-rape" pages from Facebook and other social media was not a violation of free speech in the context of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the concepts recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.[28][29]
In 2017 O’Brien slammed the HipHop / Rap Music sector for its sexism and misogyny having widely accused rappers Eminem and Big Sean of “encouraging rape & physical violence against American author Ann Coulter”,[30] and claimed it was “symbolic of the direction America appears to be headed”.[31] O'Brien issued a statement strongly urging the boycott of rape rappers and their labels. O'Brien, on behalf of RINJ, claimed that "In a poorly mastered rap recording by rape rappers Marshall Bruce Mathers (Eminem) and Sean Michael Anderson (Big Sean), America’s most popular and most vulgar heroes demonstrate why and how America became a global misogyny pariah."[32][33]
