James George Eayrs, OC, FRSC (13 October 1926 – 6 February 2021) was a Canadian political scientist and journalist.

[1][2] Eayrs won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1965 Governor General's Awards for his book In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression.

[3] The book, which examined Canadian military and defence policy during the period between the First World War and the Great Depression,[4] was the first in a multi-volume series on Canadian military history and was followed by In Defence of Canada, Vol.

[8][9] A professor of political economy at the University of Toronto[2] and later of political science at Dalhousie University, he was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in 1984[10] and was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

[1] As a broadcaster, he wrote for the CTV series Here Come the Seventies and then cohosted with Charlotte Gobeil the CBC television program, Weekend.