On June 16, former Ontario Liberal Party leader and provincial treasurer Robert Nixon, who sat as leader of the opposition to Rae's Ontario government for a time, endorsed Rae.

Dryden dropped off after the second ballot and endorsed Bob Rae and then eventual winner Stéphane Dion.

On November 28, 2006, he endorsed Bob Rae to be the next leader of the Liberal Party.

It is unclear if Arnold had any connection links with Robert Rae Manville who ran in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan as a National Unity candidate and was endorsed or supporive of the National Government party ( which was what the Conservative Party was calling itself that election ).

McCurdy had been endorsed by Premier Bob Rae, while Rousseau was an ally of party dissidents such as Peter Kormos.

In 2006, he endorsed former Ontario Premier Bob Rae who placed third.

She later endorsed Bob Rae and following Rae's loss on the 3rd ballot, she endorsed Stéphane Dion.

Cooke endorsed the Rae government's establishment of a casino in Windsor as a means of stimulating the city's economy during the recession of the early 1990s.

In 1996, he endorsed Frances Lankin's unsuccessful bid to replace Rae as party leader.

Because of his long running and historic criticism of the NDP's legislative failure on gay rights issues, Rae surprised many when he endorsed former New Democratic Party Premier Bob Rae ( who is no relation to Kyle Rae ) when the latter successfully contested the Toronto Centre federal by-election on March 17, 2008 as the Liberal Party candidate.

It has also been presented to the Liberal Party of Canada, where it was endorsed by the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada Bob Rae.

Zukofsky's formal procedures, especially his interest in aleatory writing, were a key influence on Jackson Mac Low and John Cage, amongst others, and through them on the Language School, an avant garde group of poets who started publishing in the 1970s and who included Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Michael Palmer, Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Barrett Watten, Clark Coolidge, Hannah Weiner, Susan Howe, Tina Darragh and Fanny Howe.

* A Wild Salience: the Writing of Rae Armantrout ( Burning Press, 2000 ; ISBN 1-58711-025-3 ) — featuring essays and poems on or inspired by her work including pieces by Robert Creeley, Susan Wheeler, Hank Lazer, Bob Perelman, Lydia Davis, Lyn Hejinian, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ron Silliman, Brenda Hillman, Fanny Howe and others

* 2002: Susan Delacourt, Bob Rae, Janice Gross Stein

Susan Rae is a Scottish newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Susan Rae began working on the BBC World Service around 2000, returning to BBC Radio 4 in 2004.

* The 1979 film Norma Rae, directed by Martin Ritt, is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Jordan's successful attempt to unionize her textile factory.

In 1979, she played a union organizer in Norma Rae, a successful film that established her status as a dramatic actress.

Under Rae, the NDP ran a strong campaign, which was also aided by a successful federal NDP showing a couple years earlier.

The 8 tonne work Fish has been permanently installed on the Waterfront at Cramond in 2009 after a successful campaign by the Cramond community, paying homage to the eight months of carving of the pink granite there by sculptor Ronald Rae in 2002.

His campaign for the Liberal Party leadership was not successful and he dropped out of the race on August 14, 2006 to support fellow Liberal Party leadership candidate Bob Rae.

In 1996, he supported Howard Hampton's successful campaign to replace Rae as party leader.

Buchanan was one of the most successful ministers in the Rae government, and was widely praised for his handling of the agriculture portfolio.

2012, to date, has been Hodges most diverse and successful year as a writer having written with Avril Lavigne, Carrie Underwood, Jason Mraz, Natasha Bedingfield, Sara Evans, Carly Rae Jepsen, Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, Josh Groban, Skillet, Halestorm, and more.

Rae Days were, however, successful in their original aims.

Grande supported Bob Rae's successful campaign for the NDP leadership in 1982, and was subsequently asked to relinquish his seat to allow Rae to run for a position in the legislature.

Layton was also hurt by the growing unpopularity of the provincial NDP government of Bob Rae, and by his earlier opposition to Toronto's Olympic bid.

However, Rae lost his bid for the leadership in the third round of Convention balloting, placing third behind both Michael Ignatieff and Stéphane Dion, who had leapfrogged into first after receiving the support of Gerard Kennedy.

While Rae had been widely expected to resign the post of interim leader and make a bid for the permanent leadership he announced on June 13, 2012 that he will not be a candidate in the Liberal leadership election.

One of the most shocking outcomes of the election was the defeat of Indira Gandhi in her bid to seek re-election from her constituency of Rae Bareilly, which she lost to her 1971 opponent Raj Narain by a margin of 55, 200 votes.

In 1996, he was the only New Democratic MPP from northern Ontario to support Frances Lankin's unsuccessful bid to replace Rae as party leader.

Rae has also become involved with international issues ; in 2002 and 2003, as chair of the Forum of Federations he helped oversee constitutional discussions between the government of Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger rebels.

He was reappointed to the position four times by Rae, Harris and Ernie Eves, retaining the position for fifteen years, and remains the longest serving chair and CEO in LCBO history.

City of York Mayor Fergy Brown, Metro Toronto Chairman Alan Tonks, Ontario Premier Bob Rae, Ontario Minister of Transportation Gilles Pouliot, and TTC Chair Mike Colle broke ground on the project in a ceremony on 25 August 1994 at Eglinton Avenue and Black Creek Drive ; however, work was halted in 1995 when the newly-elected Government of Ontario under Mike Harris cancelled the project.

In 1994, when Premier Bob Rae agreed to support the subway projects, they decided to spread the funding throughout Metro Toronto to appease residents of both sides, which would have resulted in two truncated subway lines instead of a single complete line at least initially.

As the province slipped into a recession, Bob Rae appointed University of Toronto professor Bruce Kidd and Bob White ( then president of the Canadian Auto Workers ) to the Stadco board to help deal with the stadium's growing debt.

Rae is a member of Holy Blossom Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation in Toronto.

Rae is not related to Kyle Rae, the former Toronto City Councillor for a ward within Bob Rae's current federal riding.

Rae was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1978 by-election, defeating Progressive Conservative Tom Clifford by 420 votes in the Toronto riding of Broadview.

Gerard Kennedy, leader of the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto, criticized Rae for not targeting the money toward affordable housing and welfare reforms.

Rae also became a partner at Goodmans LLP, a Toronto-based corporate law firm, an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College.

Rae helped the Toronto Symphony Orchestra restructure following an extended strike by its musicians at the beginning of the 1999 – 2000 season.

On August 24, 2005, the Toronto Star reported that Rae was under " mounting pressure " to run for the federal Liberals in the 2006 general election.

On March 7, 2007, Rae announced that he would seek the Liberal nomination in Toronto Centre.

* Kyle Rae, former Toronto city councillor

Toronto City Councilor Kyle Rae commented on the announcement, saying " Reading the political tea leaves from last year, and Diane Ablonczy being shoved aside, I think all of us saw that this was going to happen.

" Weeks after the election Toronto MP Bob Rae was selected to serve as the interim leader till the party's leadership convention, which was later decided to be held in April 2013.

In 1993, the now governing New Democratic Party ( NDP ) under Bob Rae proposed provincial funding for four subway / LRT projects for the Toronto Transit Commission ( TTC ).

He was editor of the UK Guardian's New Media Lab where he developed content for the paper's online edition before moving to Canada in 1999, where he was a writer in residence at Massey College in the University of Toronto, Saul Rae Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, a mentor at the Trudeau Foundation in Canada and a columnist for The Globe and Mail where he was twice nominated for the National Newspaper Awards for Feature writing.

Prominent candidates included Chris Phibbs, who was executive assistant to Toronto City Councillor Kyle Rae for 11 years, and Maureen Gilroy, a centrist candidate who had the backing of Liberal MP Dennis Mills.

Toronto singer / songwriter Kurt Swinghammer wrote a song called " The Signature of Marilyn Churley ", inspired by Churley's signature on an elevator license dating from her term in the Rae cabinet.

In mid-August 2011, Karygiannis's former Conservative opponent Harry Tsai, among others, signed a collective letter on behalf of the Taiwanese Canadian Association of Toronto, requesting that Bob Rae remove Karygiannis from his multicultural critic's post.

He was called to the bar in 1920, then joined the firm of Smith, Rae & Greer in Toronto.

Rae was first elected to Toronto city council in 1991 as a left-leaning councillor filling the seat vacated by Jack Layton ( who was running for mayor at the time ).