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    David Croll

    David Arnold Croll, lawyer, politician (b at Moscow, Russia 12 Mar 1900; d at Ottawa 10 June 1991). Elected a Liberal MLA in 1934, he became the first Jewish Cabinet minister but resigned in April 1937 over Premier HEPBURN's opposition to industrial unionism.

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    David Crombie

    David Crombie, teacher, politician (b at Toronto 24 Apr 1936). Educated at Western and U of T, he was appointed lecturer in political science and urban affairs at Ryerson Polytechnical Inst. From 1966 to 1971, Crombie was director of student affairs at Ryerson.

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    David Dingwall (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 3, 1995. Partner content is not updated. Forget, for a moment, his reputation as a throwback to the old-style, intensely partisan Ottawa wheeler-dealers. At a little past 8 a.m. on a steel-grey morning, David Dingwall is trying to lighten up. It does not come easily.

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    Françoise David

    Françoise David, CQ, community organizer, politician and feminist activist (born 13 January 1948 in Montreal, QC). Chair of the Fédération des femmes du Québec from 1994 to 2001, David was elected member of the National Assembly of Quebecin 2012 and was co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire from 2006 to 2017.

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    David Howard Harrison

    David Howard Harrison, physician, politician, farmer, businessman, premier of Manitoba (b at London, Canada W 1 June 1843; d at Vancouver 8 Sept 1905).

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    David Laird

    David Laird, editor, politician, lieutenant-governor, Indian commissioner (b New Glasgow, PEI 12 Mar 1833; d at Ottawa 12 Jan 1914).

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    David Lewis

    In 1950, with CCF prospects dwindling, Lewis practised labour law, though his involvement with the CCF continued. He held a variety of executive positions and helped draft the Winnipeg Declaration of 1956.

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    David Alward

    David Nathan Alward, civil servant, consultant, politician, diplomat, premier of New Brunswick 2010–14 (born 2 December 1959 in Beverly, Massachusetts). Alward was a federal civil servant, and a private consultant, before making the move to provincial politics in 1999. He was elected premier of New Brunswick on 27 September 2010 and governed for four years. After his defeat in 2014, he was named Canada’s consul general in Boston.

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    David Robert Peterson

    After assuming office on 26 June 1985, Peterson moved quickly on issues such as environmental protection, health care and francophone rights.

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  • Macleans

    David Rotenberg (Profile)

    In a small room tucked into the basement of St. Anne's Parish Hall in Toronto's west end, David Rotenberg has the spotlight.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 29, 2002

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    Davie Fulton

    Edmund Davie Fulton, lawyer, politician, judge (b at Kamloops, BC 10 Mar 1916). Son of an MP and grandson of a former BC premier, he distinguished himself as a Rhodes scholar, MP, Cabinet minister and judge.

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  • Macleans

    Day, Manning Contest Party Leadership

    When Stockwell Day worked as an auctioneer in Kelowna, B.C., in the 1970s, he was known as a young man who could sell everything from beat-up cars to canoes. After later moving to Bentley, Alta.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 20, 2000

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  • Editorial

    General De Gaulle and "Vive le Québec libre"

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. On 24 July 1967, during a state visit to Expo '67, General Charles de Gaulle, president of France and a hero of the 20th century, proclaimed from the balcony of Montréal's City Hall a sentence that would change the history of Canada: “Vive le Québec libre.”

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    Denis Coderre

    Denis Coderre, politician, federal cabinet minister, mayor of Montreal 2013–17 (born 25 July 1963 in Joliette, QC). A federal politician for 16 years, Coderre moved into municipal politics and was elected mayor of Montreal in November 2013. Although credited with cleaning up the city’s administration, Coderre lost the November 2017 election to Valérie Plante, becoming the first Montreal mayor in 57 years to lose after only one term.

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    Dennis Fentie

    In 1996 Dennis Fentie entered territorial politics when he was elected to represent Watson Lake in Yukon's Legislative Assembly as a member of the NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

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