The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY) is an independent, non-partisan office of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly. The office represents...
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Death of Tina Fontaine (category People murdered in Manitoba)
exploited by adults, and started to use alcohol and drugs. The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth says little was done to intervene and protect her. When...
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A children's ombudsman, children's commissioner, youth commissioner, child advocate, children's commission, youth ombudsman or equivalent body is a public...
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Canadian actress, writer, director, and advocate for children in foster care. She grew up in Nova Scotia and Manitoba, Canada. Within a year of emancipating...
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Cathy Merrick (category Indigenous leaders in Manitoba)
water and land claims for Manitoba First Nations, working towards the return of the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation to the AMC, and advocating for a landfill...
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Parental rights movement (section Impact on LGBT youth)
for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, has said that requiring parental consent to use different names or preferred pronouns places trans children in...
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Ernest Thompson Seton (category American sustainability advocates)
The Birds of Manitoba and was appointed Provincial Naturalist by the government of Manitoba. He continued to publish books about Manitoba for decades to...
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Izzy Asper (category Lawyers in Manitoba)
the leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party from 1970 to 1975 and is credited with the idea and vision to establish the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Israel...
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Winnipeg (redirect from Winnepeg, Manitoba)
(/ˈwɪnɪpɛɡ/ ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near...
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state-supported separate school system in the original constitution of Manitoba, such that their children would be taught in French. However a grassroots political...
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Manitoba. A social conservative, Larsson was an advocate for children to have the choice of having one mother and one father in cases of adoption and...
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Drew Caldwell (category New Democratic Party of Manitoba MLAs)
April 10, 1960) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the constituency of Brandon East from...
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Wendy Lill (category Canadian women dramatists and playwrights)
served as her party's culture and communications critic as well as its advocate for human rights, children and youth, and people living with disabilities...
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reaching 76% in Manitoba and 69% in Saskatchewan for First Nations children living on reserves. The study found poverty rates of 30% for non-status First...
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Science and German from the University of Manitoba, and works as a researcher, writer, editor and web designer. She has been web editor for Canada's...
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Heather Stefanson (category Members of the Executive Council of Manitoba)
Democratic Party (NDP), finished third. As MLA for Tuxedo, Stefanson has been an advocate for Special Olympics Manitoba, an organization dedicated to enriching...
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List of Métis people (section Artists and writers)
people, primarily from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, who have Indigenous (primarily Cree, Ojibwa) and European (primarily French)...
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Rod Bruinooge (category Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba)
1990s, and worked as a consultant. Bruinooge has served as a director of the River View Health Centre and the Manitoba Children's Museum, and has done...
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Canadian lawyer and law professor. She has served as a judge and as a legislative advocate for children's rights. Turpel-Lafond has been a legal and constitutional...
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Otto Strasser (section Early life and World War I)
party's program and led the party's faction in northern Germany together with his brother and Joseph Goebbels. His faction advocated support for ideologically...
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WE Charity (redirect from Free the children)
Children (French: Enfants Entraide), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates...
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Prostitution in Canada (section Manitoba)
sexual exploitation : creative ideas for working with children and youth. New Westminster, B.C. : Social Services and Community Safety Division, Justice...
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Transgender rights in Canada (section Manitoba)
April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2019. "Manitoba works to ban conversion therapy for LGBT youth". CBC News. May 22, 2015. Retrieved November 11...
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Jim Rondeau (category New Democratic Party of Manitoba MLAs)
responsibility for Seniors and Healthy Child Manitoba. He became a strong advocate for public awareness and preventative medicine, and indicated that...
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stadium-sized youth empowerment events organized by We Charity (formerly known as Free The Children), a Canadian charity founded by brothers Marc and Craig Kielburger...
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Protection of Children and Youth Welfare and Rights Act (zh:兒童及少年福利法) of the Republic of China; Article 2 of defines children and youth as people under...
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Dan Heap (category Trade unionists from Manitoba)
homelessness, poverty and refugee rights among other social justice issues. Heap was born on September 24, 1925, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, into a middle-class...
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conversation and dialogue with the Manitoba Metis Federation and I'm just looking to move forward and continue to be the voice and the one who advocates on behalf...
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Tommy Prince (category People from Interlake Region, Manitoba)
of Manitoba Chiefs) and the First Nations of Canada national delegation. He advocated for the abolition of the governing Indian Act in Canada and proposed...
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Ruby Dhalla (category Women in Manitoba politics)
Minister Indira Gandhi, advocating for peace and justice. "Dear Prime Minister I am writing you after watching the violence on TV and seeing so many Sikhs...
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