Kirsty Duncan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kirsty Duncan
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Oct 31, 1966(1966-10-31)
Age	58
Birthplace	Etobicoke
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Capricorn

Kirsty Duncan Biography

Kirsty Duncan is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 31, 1966 in Etobicoke, Canada. Kirsty Ellen Duncan PC MP (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadian politician and medical geographer from Ontario, Canada. Duncan is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North and Duncan serves as deputy leader of the government in the House of Commons. Duncan has previously served as minister of science and minister of sport and persons with disabilities. She has published a book about her 1998 expedition to uncover the cause of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.

In 2003, Duncan wrote a book about her expedition, entitled Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist’s Search for a Killer Virus. Published by the University of Toronto Press, it details Duncan’s process and the expedition itself. After the book’s publication, Duncan began speaking about pandemics, which led her to begin teaching corporate social responsibility at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. In 2008, Duncan published a second book, Environment and Health: Protecting our Common Future.

Duncan was an associate professor of Health Studies at the University of Toronto, where she taught global environmental processes and medical geography. Duncan is the former research director for the AIC Institute of Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management. As well, Duncan served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization which won the Nobel Prize in 2007.

In February 2008, Roy Cullen announced that he would not be running in the next federal election and Duncan was appointed as the next Liberal candidate. She was elected in the 2008 general election and re-elected in the 2011, 2015, and 2019 general elections.

Eventually, after several years of searching, Duncan learned of seven miners who had died from the Spanish flu and were buried in the small town of Longyearbyen, Norway, an area that would contain permafrost. She then began assembling a team of scientists to accompany her. After several more years of preparation, which involved garnering various permissions to perform the exhumations, the ground survey began in 1998. However, the samples were not viable, as the bodies were not in the permafrost, and the expedition ultimately proved a disappointment.

Kirsty Duncan Net Worth

Kirsty Duncan is one of the richest Politician from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kirsty Duncan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from Kipling Collegiate Institute in 1985 as an Ontario scholar, Duncan studied geography and anthropology at the University of Toronto. She then entered graduate school at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and completed a Ph.D. in geography in 1992.

From 1993 to 2000, Duncan taught meteorology, climatology and climate change at the University of Windsor. In 1992, as she became aware of the increasing probability of a global flu crisis, she was led to investigate the cause of the similar 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, saying, “I was horrified we didn’t know what caused Spanish flu, and also knew that if we could find fragments of the virus, we might be able to find a better flu vaccine”.

Duncan is currently an adjunct professor teaching both medical geography at the University of Toronto and global environmental processes at Royal Roads University, and served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

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Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a proposed extremely large telescope (ELT) that has become controversial due to its planned location on Mauna Kea, which is considered sacred land according to the native Hawaiians, on the island of Hawaii in the United States.The Government of Canada has made a commitment to spend $243.5 million over a period of 10 years for the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. The telescope’s enclosure was designed by Dynamic Structures Ltd. in British Columbia. In an online petition, a group of Canadian academics have called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau together with Industry Minister Navdeep Bains and Science Minister Kirsty Duncan to divest Canadian funding from the project. The online petition titled “A Call to Divest Canada’s Research Funding for the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea” was posted to Change.org on July 20, 2019.

Facts & Trivia

Kirsty Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Kirsty Duncan celebrates birthday on October 31 of every year.

In 2019, Kirsty Duncan won her Etobicoke North seat in west Toronto.

What did Kirsty Duncan do?

Duncan is the former research director for the AIC Institute of Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management. As well, Duncan served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization which won the Nobel Prize in 2007.

Who is the MP of Etobicoke North?

Ontario electoral district
MP| Kirsty Duncan Liberal
District created| 1976
First contested| 1979
Last contested| 2021

Who is the minister of science in Canada?

Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry The Honourable François- Philippe Champagne was first elected in 2015 as the Member of Parliament for Saint-Maurice-Champlain. He has previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and Minister of International Trade.

Who is the MP for Etobicoke South?

James Maloney MP
Political party| Liberal Party of Canada
Residence(s)| The Kingsway, Etobicoke, Ontario
Alma mater| University of Windsor University of Wales Bishop’s University
Profession| Lawyer

How do you pronounce Ebitoke?

Since people tend to read new words by identifying small words that they know, Etobicoke is commonly mispronounced as “Etobee-COKE.” Nonetheless, the correct way to pronounce Etobicoke is “ Eetoe-Bee-Ko.”