In late 2005, Anna Mather represented the New Democrats (NDP) in a nationally televised debate on the role of women in politics, which was broadcast on CPAC (Toronto Star, 21 December 2005).
Mather and her team proposed amending the Canadian Human Rights Act to ban hiring discrimination based solely on where candidates got their experience or education.
Mather maintained the party's recent high-water mark for Brampton-Springdale, receiving 8,345 votes (17.72%), against Liberal incumbent Ruby Dhalla.
Shergill supported Anna Mather's proposal to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to ban hiring discrimination based solely on where candidates received their experience or education.
[1] She served as a military member of 723 Halifax Communications Squadron, and provided Radioteletype equipment to Canadian forces during Operation Desert Storm.
She is a graduate of George Brown College's Assaulted Women and Children's Counsellor and Advocate program, and works with Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto.
He won the NDP nomination in 2004 over retired electrical engineer Bill Fisher and Queen's student Ian Griffiths (KWS, 26 March 2004), and finished third against Liberal incumbent Peter Milliken.
He was the founder and former advisor for Kiwanis Builders, KEY and Circle Clubs, including participation in the University of Waterloo's school-building trip to Kenya in 2005.
She praised Orchard's "progressive nationalism", though she acknowledged that it was difficult for her to join a party she had long opposed (Ottawa Citizen, 11 September 1998).
De Pelham (born 1980 in Montreal) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Northern British Columbia.
He helped found the campus and community radio station CFUR in Prince George, and has been involved with the Canadian Federation of Students.
He campaigned in many elections for Elisabeth Arnold, Marion Dewar, Evelyn Gigantes, Jamey Heath, John Rodriguez and Lorne Nystrom.
In addition, over the last 15 years, he worked as a researcher, executive and legislative assistant for several NDP Members of Parliament – including John Rodriguez (Nickel Belt, Ontario; 1972 1980; 1984–1993), Lorne Nystrom (Yorkton—Melville, Saskatchewan; 1968–1993; 1997–2004) and Peter Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster, British Columbia; since 2004).
During his time on Parliament Hill, Sader played a key role in helping the House of Commons to pass an NDP motion on the so-called "Tobin tax", making Canada the first legislature in the world to do so.
He defeated Sandra Griffith-Bonaparte for the New Democratic Party nomination in the riding of Ottawa South for the 39th Canadian federal election, on November 10, 2005.
Rivier has a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Carleton University in Ottawa, and has been a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario since the early 1980s.
[17] Rivier is president of Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 479, and has been a prominent critic of "private-public partnerships" in provincial health-care delivery.
[18] Linda Slavin was born in 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia, where her father was stationed with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
[22] She later worked through the International Program at Trent University to target water pollution at Lago San Pablo in Ecuador and the Rio Texcoco in Mexico.
[34] He called for a plan against child poverty in 1999,[35] and endorsed a filtration upgrade for Sudbury's drinking water to address safety concerns in the city's south-end.
[37] In June 2000, McIntaggart introduced a strongly worded motion that criticized the provincial government of Mike Harris for its failure to reappoint Gerry Lougheed Jr. to the board of directors of Cancer Care Ontario.
[39] McIntaggart was appointed vice-chair of Great Sudbury's priorities committee in December 2002, and was re-appointed as Health Unit chair the following month.
A resident of Thornhill for almost 20 years, Simon Strelchik says he is a founding member and director of Free the Children, now the largest youth-led humanitarian organization in the world, with over one million participants in 45 countries.
Simon Strelchik was an original member of the York Region No-smoking Bylaw Task Force, which drafted the law governing tobacco in Thornhill and its surrounding municipalities.
Ashton was defeated by the Liberal candidate, Tina Keeper, partly due to vote splitting with former NDP Member of Parliament Bev Desjarlais.
[46] He has also served with the Residential Tenancy Appeal Commission,[47] and has been chief shop steward of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1063.
Partly as a result of this experience, he is now a committed supporter of public health delivery, and has been quoted as saying, "I’ve seen what can happen with private service because they’re there for profit and have to answer to their shareholders".
He spoke out against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and western alienation,[53] and finished third against Conservative Brian Pallister.
He worked as a computer programmer in the university's Physics (Cyclotron) Department for six years, and was an employee of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) from 1975 to 1998, specializing in nuclear waste research.
Page was elected as a school trustee for the Seine River Division in 2002 (Winnipeg Free Press, 12 November 2002),[56] and unsuccessfully campaigned for a St. Norbert council seat in early 2005.