The New Democratic Party of Manitoba fielded a full slate of candidates in the 1999 provincial election, and won 32 seats out of 57 to win a majority government in the legislature.
As of 2005, Gretsinger is a member of the Regional Health Authority for Central Manitoba Inc. She was appointed to represent this group at the National Healthcare Leadership Conference in June 2005.
In a 1998 letter, she upheld the social aims of Cooperative Commonwealth Federation leaders Tommy Douglas and James Shaver Woodsworth.
[2] She supported Alexa McDonough's campaign to lead the federal New Democratic Party in 1995 (Winnipeg Free Press, 23 May 1997), and endorsed Bill Blaikie in 2002-03.
She was the spokeswoman for the Westman Community Action Coalition in 1998, and in this capacity scrutinized plans for a wastewater treatment plant in the Brandon area.
[3] She also criticized the provincial government of Gary Filmon for approving a local hog farm without conducting a Clean Environment Commission review.
[6] Dubois worked as curator of mammology at Winnipeg's Museum of Man and Nature 1971 - 2001, and has done extensive research into Manitoba's bat population.
[9] He is Director of the Wildlife and Ecosystem Prevention Branch of Manitoba Conservation, starting January 2002, and continues to hold this position as of 2010.