Smith was narrowly defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Borotsik, a popular former mayor, in the 2007 provincial election.

Borotsik was born to a Ukrainian family in Brandon, was raised in that city, and graduated from Brandon University in 1971.

A colourful and bombastic figure, Borotsik was elected on a platform of aggressive municipal development and became known for his efforts to promote the city.

Borotsik was a strong supporter of party leader Jean Charest, and was considered a star candidate.

Borotsik was his party's only elected representative from western Canada.

Borotsik was subsequently chosen as national caucus chairman, and endorsed Joe Clark's successful bid to succeed Charest as leader.

Borotsik was also an opponent of the United Alternative, a Reform-sponsored drive for a new political party that resulted in the creation of the Canadian Alliance.

There was speculation that Borotsik would seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 2000, but he declined.

Borotsik was narrowly re-elected in the 2000 federal election over a candidate of the Canadian Alliance, as the Liberals won a third consecutive majority government nationally.

Borotsik was subsequently named as party whip and Critic for Agriculture, Indian Affairs and the Canadian Wheat Board.

Prentice was defeated by Peter MacKay on the final ballot of the party's 2003 leadership convention ; Borotsik resigned as party whip, but remained Agriculture Critic.

Borotsik strongly opposed this decision, and said that he would not be a candidate for the merged party if Stephen Harper was chosen as its leader.

Borotsik provoked some controversy when he announced that he favoured an end to Manitoba's tuition freeze ; the party's official policy was to keep the freeze in place.

The New Democratic Party was re-elected to a third consecutive majority government in the 2007 election, and Borotsik entered the legislature as a member of the Official Opposition.

Note: Reports in the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper do not indicate if Borotsik was elected in Ward Three or Ward Four in the 1980 election.

In the early months following the merger, MP Rick Borotsik, who had been elected as Manitoba's only PC, became openly critical of the new party's leadership.

Borotsik chose not to run in the 2004 general election.

Rick Borotsik joined the new party, but openly criticized it from within, did not run for re-election in 2004, and also publicly endorsed the Liberals over the Conservatives during the campaign.

Lukewarm endorsements of Liberal Party candidates at the onset of the campaign were extended by former Tory MPs Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, André Bachand, Rick Borotsik, and former federal PC Party president Bruck Easton.

He planned to seek the PC nomination again for the 1997 election, but withdrew in favour of Brandon Mayor Rick Borotsik.

Rick Borotsik ( born September 8, 1950 ) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Borotsik is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

Borotsik sought the provincial PC party's nomination for Brandon West in the buildup to the 1986 provincial election, but lost to Jim McCrae.

Borotsik sought and won the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's nomination for Brandon-Souris in the 1997 federal election.

Charest resigned as party leader in 1998, despite requests from Borotsik and other MPs that he remain in the position.

Borotsik opposed the Canadian gun registry, which he described as unworkable.

Borotsik took part in preliminary discussions between the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance in early 2001.

No agreements were reached, and Borotsik later called for disgruntled Canadian Alliance members to rejoin the Progressive Conservative Party.

Du Pont would be enjoined from having as a director, officer, or employee anyone who was simultaneously an officer or employee of General Motors, and no director, officer, or employee of Du Pont could serve as a director of General Motors without court approval.

Can you consider restricting any additional employee benefits to those paid for by profit-sharing money, such as was done in the union contract recently signed by American Motors Corporation??

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Act overturns a 1999 U. S. Supreme Court case that held that an employee was not disabled if the impairment could be corrected by mitigating measures ; it specifically provides that such impairment must be determined without considering such ameliorative measures.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

In its prototype stage, the Atari 5200 was originally called the " Atari Video System X-Advanced Video Computer System ", and was codenamed " Pam " after a female employee at Atari Inc.

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

A special armed employee of the express service using the stage for transportation of bullion or cash would sit beside the driver, carrying a short shotgun ( or alternatively a rifle ), to provide an armed response in case of threat to the cargo, which was usually a strongbox.

That year, Newcomb pointed out to a Johns Hopkins trustee that Peirce, while a Hopkins employee, had lived and traveled with a woman to whom he was not married ; the ensuing scandal led to his dismissal in January 1884.

It was written by Christian Scientist, scholar and longtime Mother Church employee Robert Peel.

Carson City was in the national news on September 2nd, 2011, when an employee of a family business in South Lake Tahoe opened fire at an IHOP restaurant on the south side of Carson City, killing four people and wounding several others before the shooter turned the gun on himself.

In fact, cash registers were invented for the purpose of eliminating employee theft or embezzlement ; the original name was Incorruptible Cashier.

The employee was required to ring up every transaction on the register, and when the total key was pushed, the drawer opened and a bell would ring, alerting the manager to a sale taking place.

Sullivan was born in New York City, New York, the son of Elizabeth F. ( née Smith ) and Peter Arthur Sullivan, a customs house employee.

* In November 2010, the new HP CEO, Leo Apotheker, announced that HP was giving back the pay cuts that former CEO Mark Hurd put in place the previous year, returning the 401 -( k ) to a fixed match, and was increasing funding for employee awards and raises.

He was dismissed after the consul discovered that his employee had deposited Marxist materials and books in his office.

Unlike many engineers, Armstrong was never a corporate employee.