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IN MEMORIUM
June 10, 1935 - August 14, 2022 |
“There are enough ideas in the world to save the world. But they need to be spread around.”
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WAYNE LOCKSLEY KINES
Founding Director of Communications
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Wayne Kines remembered that he received this sense of ‘guidance’ — in green text above — in his teen years and has kept this core idea as his lifelong credo. In the seven decades since, he traveled and served the world — seeking to share the ideas essential for human progress. Born in Roblin, Manitoba, he grew up with an extended family — and a small, close-knit community — who were all much concerned with Canada’s World War II efforts and their profound commitment to creating a better world.
During the early 1970s, his work expanded to a global scale and left a significant impact on today's environmental movement >>>. As Founding Director for the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health >>> in the early 2000s, he continued his lifelong credo.
Scroll through the paragraphs and videos below to learn more about these achievements and his many other opportunities to share his lifelong credo.
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“If you despair at what’s going on… think through how one single individual can
make a difference.... humankind owes Wayne Kines a debt... there is no doubt about that... the impact that this Canadian has had on the world” |
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“Each of us are threads….
and Wayne carefully wove those threads into a a fabric that is still with us — a thread of love, a fabric of love that we still have.” |
“An innate capacity
to communicate with and identify an ordinary person — in whom he saw a potentiality to bring about a vision and the idealism to work for a better world.” |
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“Before there was Facebook
and Twitter, and Linkedin, Instagram and TikTok, there was Wayne Kines...” Scroll down for videos about Wayne below....
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A review of the highlights of Wayne Kines' awesome career...
CELEBRATING GLOBAL — REMEMBERING YOUTH --
VALUING NATION, REGION & COMMUNITY
VALUING NATION, REGION & COMMUNITY
CELEBRATING GLOBAL
• Special Advisor, UN Development Programme — in 1968, Wayne was recruited by the UNDP to create grassroots-to-global campaigns in all UN Member States — encouraging university students from Scandinavia, Japan, the USA and Australia — to visit and understand campus conditions on-site in Latin America and Asia.
• Contributor, UN GA Resolution for the Mobilization of Public Opinion — With the founding of the United Nations inter-agency Centre for Economic & Social Development (CESI), Wayne became a strategic contributor to the 1969 UN General Assembly’s unanimous Resolution for Mobilization of Public Opinion and to the UN GA’s 1970 adoption of the United Nations 2nd Development Decade.
• Director, UN Centre for Economic & Social Information (CESI) — By 1971, as Director of the European Office for the UN Centre for Economic & Social Information (CESI), based in Geneva, he worked with all Agencies / Organizations of the UN System to advance the multi-media strategy for this 2nd Development Decade.
• Strategist, UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm — By 1972, Wayne had begun to mobilize global awareness of human environmental concerns and to enable more direct participation of youth, students and many hundreds of civil society organizations by gaining agreement for their involvement in the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. This coordination pioneered the first-ever direct contributions of international NGOs to UN plenary discussions and debates. This Conference was also noted for the unanimous adoption, by all participating Member States, of all the NGO recommendations proposed. These were then presented — in tabloid newspaper form— to all governments, NGOs and mass media — prior to their adoption by the UN General Assembly in late 1972. This model tabloid format and global distribution became the prototype for the UN's Development Forum for the 15 years that followed.
• Founding Director of Communications, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) — With the founding of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) adopted by the UN General Assembly in late 1972, Wayne was drafted to become UNEP’s founding Director of Communications — beginning in Geneva and then Nairobi — to disseminate information and recommendations on global environmental problems and solutions. In this role, he traveled to more than 50 countries to address conferences of professional media associations —as well as to lead the production of audio-visual and print media materials for their reference as re-disseminators. This strategy led to environmental awareness becoming front-page news and to related broadcast documentaries.
• Developer, Bruntland Commission Report ‘Our Common Future’ — Subsequently, having returned to Canada and with his role as principal officer of World Media Initiatives (WMI) — Wayne conducted similar campaigns in preparation for the Brundtland Commission & Report -- 'Our Common Future' — eventually moving the UN toward even greater environmental awareness and convening the UN Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
• Organizer / Host— UNESCO World Heritage Media Seminar — While based in Manitoba, Wayne continued to mobilize public opinion with media seminars on global topics, most notably the 1980 UNESCO World Heritage Media Seminar. This project enabled journalists and broadcasters — from nations not yet signatory to the World Heritage Convention — to tour the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Canada and the United States and to discern the value of their countries’ natural, historic, and cultural sites as potential assets, rather than liabilities.
• Special Advisor, World Council of Indigenous Peoples — He has also been involved with indigenous peoples, named an Honorary Member of the Alberta Indian Association while he worked in Calgary. He was enlisted to facilitate and advise the National Indian Council and World Council of Indigenous Peoples in their direct advocacy role — toward achieving the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• Associate Director, UN Conference on Family-Friendly Communities — In a similar vein, Wayne served as Associate Director of the United Nations Conference on Family-Friendly Communities — hosted by Salt Lake City during the United Nations Year of the Family in 1995. He facilitated the logistics of this ten-day event, including exhibits and demonstrations of successful projects and the exchange of formulas for replication.
• Founding Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) — More recently, Wayne has voluntarily served the founding and development of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) — overseeing communications and media strategies worldwide — in collaboration with his third wife, Dr. Deva-Marie Beck. With NIGH’s Founding Board in 2006 — he crafted NIGH’s first foundational document the ‘Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World’ — beginning with a phrase modeled after the original UN Charter — “We the nurses and concerned citizens hereby dedicate ourselves to achieve a healthy world.” Launched online in 2007, this Declaration has since achieved 25,000 individual signatories — officially representing organizations of millions from 106 nations. It is now available in eleven language versions — with many more — including Indigenous versions — planned. Wayne has guided NIGH’s growing grassroots-to-global teams to advocate to achieve the UN MDGs and UN SDGs — achieving, in 2018, NIGH’s top-NGO ‘Special Consultative Status’ with the United Nations Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC).
• Contributor, UN GA Resolution for the Mobilization of Public Opinion — With the founding of the United Nations inter-agency Centre for Economic & Social Development (CESI), Wayne became a strategic contributor to the 1969 UN General Assembly’s unanimous Resolution for Mobilization of Public Opinion and to the UN GA’s 1970 adoption of the United Nations 2nd Development Decade.
• Director, UN Centre for Economic & Social Information (CESI) — By 1971, as Director of the European Office for the UN Centre for Economic & Social Information (CESI), based in Geneva, he worked with all Agencies / Organizations of the UN System to advance the multi-media strategy for this 2nd Development Decade.
• Strategist, UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm — By 1972, Wayne had begun to mobilize global awareness of human environmental concerns and to enable more direct participation of youth, students and many hundreds of civil society organizations by gaining agreement for their involvement in the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. This coordination pioneered the first-ever direct contributions of international NGOs to UN plenary discussions and debates. This Conference was also noted for the unanimous adoption, by all participating Member States, of all the NGO recommendations proposed. These were then presented — in tabloid newspaper form— to all governments, NGOs and mass media — prior to their adoption by the UN General Assembly in late 1972. This model tabloid format and global distribution became the prototype for the UN's Development Forum for the 15 years that followed.
• Founding Director of Communications, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) — With the founding of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) adopted by the UN General Assembly in late 1972, Wayne was drafted to become UNEP’s founding Director of Communications — beginning in Geneva and then Nairobi — to disseminate information and recommendations on global environmental problems and solutions. In this role, he traveled to more than 50 countries to address conferences of professional media associations —as well as to lead the production of audio-visual and print media materials for their reference as re-disseminators. This strategy led to environmental awareness becoming front-page news and to related broadcast documentaries.
• Developer, Bruntland Commission Report ‘Our Common Future’ — Subsequently, having returned to Canada and with his role as principal officer of World Media Initiatives (WMI) — Wayne conducted similar campaigns in preparation for the Brundtland Commission & Report -- 'Our Common Future' — eventually moving the UN toward even greater environmental awareness and convening the UN Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
• Organizer / Host— UNESCO World Heritage Media Seminar — While based in Manitoba, Wayne continued to mobilize public opinion with media seminars on global topics, most notably the 1980 UNESCO World Heritage Media Seminar. This project enabled journalists and broadcasters — from nations not yet signatory to the World Heritage Convention — to tour the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Canada and the United States and to discern the value of their countries’ natural, historic, and cultural sites as potential assets, rather than liabilities.
• Special Advisor, World Council of Indigenous Peoples — He has also been involved with indigenous peoples, named an Honorary Member of the Alberta Indian Association while he worked in Calgary. He was enlisted to facilitate and advise the National Indian Council and World Council of Indigenous Peoples in their direct advocacy role — toward achieving the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• Associate Director, UN Conference on Family-Friendly Communities — In a similar vein, Wayne served as Associate Director of the United Nations Conference on Family-Friendly Communities — hosted by Salt Lake City during the United Nations Year of the Family in 1995. He facilitated the logistics of this ten-day event, including exhibits and demonstrations of successful projects and the exchange of formulas for replication.
• Founding Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) — More recently, Wayne has voluntarily served the founding and development of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) — overseeing communications and media strategies worldwide — in collaboration with his third wife, Dr. Deva-Marie Beck. With NIGH’s Founding Board in 2006 — he crafted NIGH’s first foundational document the ‘Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World’ — beginning with a phrase modeled after the original UN Charter — “We the nurses and concerned citizens hereby dedicate ourselves to achieve a healthy world.” Launched online in 2007, this Declaration has since achieved 25,000 individual signatories — officially representing organizations of millions from 106 nations. It is now available in eleven language versions — with many more — including Indigenous versions — planned. Wayne has guided NIGH’s growing grassroots-to-global teams to advocate to achieve the UN MDGs and UN SDGs — achieving, in 2018, NIGH’s top-NGO ‘Special Consultative Status’ with the United Nations Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC).
REMEMBERING YOUTH
• Royal Canadian Army Cadet — During his high school years, Wayne became a Cadet Platoon ‘Commander’ and also served, for two summers, as an Army Medic at CFB Shilo Hospital.
• Student Journalist -- Wayne also began his professional media career as a journalist at age 15, serving as a rural-based ‘District Correspondent’ and contributing photographer for the Winnipeg Free Press.
• Student Activist — While studying a Carleton College in the early 1950s, Wayne further developed his leadership skills, participating in the World University Service of Canada (WUSC), assisting to host the first African students at Carleton. Elected Vice President of the Student Body he co-led — with Carleton President MacOdrum — the first ‘torchlight parade’ from the Glebe to the Rideau River bank, where Carleton University was established.
• Labourer-Teacher — through two summer terms, 1954-55, Wayne served with Frontier College to teach English and to labour beside former Italian POWs who built the railroad tracks along the Skeena River to Prince Rupert and into Kitimat, BC — and with Swiss and German men at west coast Vancouver Island logging camps.
• Journalist — Following Carleton studies, Wayne joined the Calgary Herald — to cover a wide range of ‘beats’ — and then CBC Winnipeg — where he established the iconic Manitoba Mirror — and then the United Church Observer (now Broadview) in Toronto — covering Canada’s admirable initiatives to welcome refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1957. Later — while based in Montreal — he served with the Canada Month and Canada Week news magazines and with the tabloid newspaper ‘En Ville’ preparing this city for the remarkable Expo 67 and its outstanding hospitality to accommodate Expo’s record-breaking attendance.
• Student Journalist -- Wayne also began his professional media career as a journalist at age 15, serving as a rural-based ‘District Correspondent’ and contributing photographer for the Winnipeg Free Press.
• Student Activist — While studying a Carleton College in the early 1950s, Wayne further developed his leadership skills, participating in the World University Service of Canada (WUSC), assisting to host the first African students at Carleton. Elected Vice President of the Student Body he co-led — with Carleton President MacOdrum — the first ‘torchlight parade’ from the Glebe to the Rideau River bank, where Carleton University was established.
• Labourer-Teacher — through two summer terms, 1954-55, Wayne served with Frontier College to teach English and to labour beside former Italian POWs who built the railroad tracks along the Skeena River to Prince Rupert and into Kitimat, BC — and with Swiss and German men at west coast Vancouver Island logging camps.
• Journalist — Following Carleton studies, Wayne joined the Calgary Herald — to cover a wide range of ‘beats’ — and then CBC Winnipeg — where he established the iconic Manitoba Mirror — and then the United Church Observer (now Broadview) in Toronto — covering Canada’s admirable initiatives to welcome refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1957. Later — while based in Montreal — he served with the Canada Month and Canada Week news magazines and with the tabloid newspaper ‘En Ville’ preparing this city for the remarkable Expo 67 and its outstanding hospitality to accommodate Expo’s record-breaking attendance.
VALUING NATION, REGION & COMMUNITY
NATIONAL
• CBC Trouble-Shooter — First at CBC Winnipeg in 1960 and soon thereafter at CBC Radio Canada Headquarters in Ottawa, Wayne served as trouble-shooter to CBC’s President, Vice President and as an advisor to the CBC Board Chairman. In these roles, he also served as liaison with the Ottawa-based foreign Diplomatic Corps and with the Minister through whom the CBC reported to Parliament. He then worked with the visionary MP Robert Thompson — also with both Liberal and Conservative MPs — during the 1960s period of minority governments — on public broadcasting legislation and in support of MP John Matheson who designed the new Canadian Maple Leaf flag.
• Chair, Centennial International Development Program — All of these Canada-wide experiences in journalism and broadcasting brought Wayne to 1967 and Canada’s Centennial — when he was invited to head a nation-wide multi-media campaign to raise public awareness of illiteracy, disease, and hunger in the world. For this, he utilized a tabloid format to share stories of these concerns and pay ‘tribute’ to Canadians serving abroad.
• Co-Founder, Canadian Council for International Cooperation — The resulting Centennial International Development Programme (CIDP) also encouraged thousands of young people in ‘sponsored walking’ — the original ‘miles for millions’ — primarily to reduce world famine. This led to Wayne’s 1968 founding of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) — the alliance of Canadian NGOs serving the ‘common cause’ of global development. Wayne recently keynoted, in 2018, at the 50th Anniversary of CCIC’s founding.
• Publisher of ‘Tribute’ — Throughout this time in his career and beyond, Wayne utilized the tabloid-newspaper format — but without advertising — to introduce new information and ideas on a range of subjects: primary health care; world heritage; rural development initiatives; tourism, trade; and economic reform — continuing the strategy he developed with the Canadian Centennial to disseminate information to journalists using this universally-familiar format and distributing this format through their professional organizations worldwide.
• Co-Founder, Canadian World Press Freedom Committee -- Inspired by friendship with the UNESCO leaders who established World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd each year, Wayne worked closely with colleague members of Ottawa’s National Press Club, Wayne co-founded CWPFC, in 2008, as a non-profit body with the mission of continuing to celebrate World Press Freedom Day in the Canadian context and to advocate on behalf of freedom-of-expression, worldwide.
REGIONAL
• Founder — Westman Media Cooperative — Wayne returned, in 1976, to western Manitoba to raise his family of four sons in Canada and to give his first wife, Valerie Kines, her own career opportunities. He also sought to demonstrate the viability of community-owned media — with then-new video cable technology — to co-found the ‘Westman Media Cooperative’ still functioning in 30 communities and governed by an elected Board.
• Canadian Delegate — International Exposition on Rural Development — In 1984, while Wayne was Board Chairman of Westman Media Cooperative, this project was chosen to represent Manitoba in the Canadian delegation to the International Exposition on Rural Development (IERD) — hosted in New Delhi by the International Institute of Cultural Affairs with delegates of 55 countries all gathered to represent projects and share their ‘approaches that work.’
COMMUNITY
• Rotarian — As a Rotarian in the 1980s, Wayne participated in establishing several Rotary Clubs in Ottawa. Later, he worked with Rotary Clubs across Canada in support of the ‘Kirathimo International’ primary health care work in Central America. With this, he also collaborated with his second wife Jane Stuart to establish community health councils, facilities and training for health workers in 25 remote villages. From 2012-2019, he also served as a Rotarian in Neepawa, Manitoba, where he hosted high school students at the Winnipeg Rotary Model United Nations (MUNA).
• DTM with Toastmasters International -- For his leadership in the training of both ordinary citizens and established professionals to enhance their participation in the global exchange of ideas — and for demonstrating his own strong verbal communication and leadership skills — Wayne was awarded the rank of Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) in 1991, the highest honour bestowed by Toastmasters International.
• Continuing Concerns & Commitments -- Two of Wayne’s lifelong personal concerns have also been community health and human rights, particularly for refugees and others displaced by violent conflict. Having brought many foreign nationals to settle in Canada and for further education, he also specifically worked with the AFS Intercultural Program and Rotary International on numerous student exchanges. Wayne was a proud father and grandfather — with five sons and daughters-in-law, one daughter, a son-in-law and twelve grandchildren.
• CBC Trouble-Shooter — First at CBC Winnipeg in 1960 and soon thereafter at CBC Radio Canada Headquarters in Ottawa, Wayne served as trouble-shooter to CBC’s President, Vice President and as an advisor to the CBC Board Chairman. In these roles, he also served as liaison with the Ottawa-based foreign Diplomatic Corps and with the Minister through whom the CBC reported to Parliament. He then worked with the visionary MP Robert Thompson — also with both Liberal and Conservative MPs — during the 1960s period of minority governments — on public broadcasting legislation and in support of MP John Matheson who designed the new Canadian Maple Leaf flag.
• Chair, Centennial International Development Program — All of these Canada-wide experiences in journalism and broadcasting brought Wayne to 1967 and Canada’s Centennial — when he was invited to head a nation-wide multi-media campaign to raise public awareness of illiteracy, disease, and hunger in the world. For this, he utilized a tabloid format to share stories of these concerns and pay ‘tribute’ to Canadians serving abroad.
• Co-Founder, Canadian Council for International Cooperation — The resulting Centennial International Development Programme (CIDP) also encouraged thousands of young people in ‘sponsored walking’ — the original ‘miles for millions’ — primarily to reduce world famine. This led to Wayne’s 1968 founding of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) — the alliance of Canadian NGOs serving the ‘common cause’ of global development. Wayne recently keynoted, in 2018, at the 50th Anniversary of CCIC’s founding.
• Publisher of ‘Tribute’ — Throughout this time in his career and beyond, Wayne utilized the tabloid-newspaper format — but without advertising — to introduce new information and ideas on a range of subjects: primary health care; world heritage; rural development initiatives; tourism, trade; and economic reform — continuing the strategy he developed with the Canadian Centennial to disseminate information to journalists using this universally-familiar format and distributing this format through their professional organizations worldwide.
• Co-Founder, Canadian World Press Freedom Committee -- Inspired by friendship with the UNESCO leaders who established World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd each year, Wayne worked closely with colleague members of Ottawa’s National Press Club, Wayne co-founded CWPFC, in 2008, as a non-profit body with the mission of continuing to celebrate World Press Freedom Day in the Canadian context and to advocate on behalf of freedom-of-expression, worldwide.
REGIONAL
• Founder — Westman Media Cooperative — Wayne returned, in 1976, to western Manitoba to raise his family of four sons in Canada and to give his first wife, Valerie Kines, her own career opportunities. He also sought to demonstrate the viability of community-owned media — with then-new video cable technology — to co-found the ‘Westman Media Cooperative’ still functioning in 30 communities and governed by an elected Board.
• Canadian Delegate — International Exposition on Rural Development — In 1984, while Wayne was Board Chairman of Westman Media Cooperative, this project was chosen to represent Manitoba in the Canadian delegation to the International Exposition on Rural Development (IERD) — hosted in New Delhi by the International Institute of Cultural Affairs with delegates of 55 countries all gathered to represent projects and share their ‘approaches that work.’
COMMUNITY
• Rotarian — As a Rotarian in the 1980s, Wayne participated in establishing several Rotary Clubs in Ottawa. Later, he worked with Rotary Clubs across Canada in support of the ‘Kirathimo International’ primary health care work in Central America. With this, he also collaborated with his second wife Jane Stuart to establish community health councils, facilities and training for health workers in 25 remote villages. From 2012-2019, he also served as a Rotarian in Neepawa, Manitoba, where he hosted high school students at the Winnipeg Rotary Model United Nations (MUNA).
• DTM with Toastmasters International -- For his leadership in the training of both ordinary citizens and established professionals to enhance their participation in the global exchange of ideas — and for demonstrating his own strong verbal communication and leadership skills — Wayne was awarded the rank of Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) in 1991, the highest honour bestowed by Toastmasters International.
• Continuing Concerns & Commitments -- Two of Wayne’s lifelong personal concerns have also been community health and human rights, particularly for refugees and others displaced by violent conflict. Having brought many foreign nationals to settle in Canada and for further education, he also specifically worked with the AFS Intercultural Program and Rotary International on numerous student exchanges. Wayne was a proud father and grandfather — with five sons and daughters-in-law, one daughter, a son-in-law and twelve grandchildren.
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“He gave me context and mentored me gently with his fabulous anecdotes… he had a story for absolutely everything, he was an inveterate story teller... he was always dreaming up new projects to make the world a better place.”
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Paraphrased from the last email Wayne sent to Benoît..
“Dear each one of you, DEEPLY MISSING YOUR PRESENCE, QUERIES AND ARTICLES OF CONVERSATION. SHARING WITH YOU TODAY HAS RELIEVED, RESTORED, RENEWED AND REFRESHED MY SENSE OF WHOLENESS WITH YOU EACH & ALL AS COMMON-CAUSE IN A CHALLENGING GLOBAL COMMUNITY. May GOD deeply bless you in response to every need. Sincerely, WAYNE” |
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Also find the original un-edited version of Wayne’s 'Celebration' here >>>
All the above videos and excerpts were captured at Wayne Kines' 'Celebration of Life' on October 25th, 2022 at the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa >>> with Julia Defalco, Videographer and Live-Stream Tech Support.