Cherniack was educated at the University of Manitoba ( receiving a law degree in 1939 ), and was active in the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and in the Jewish community of Winnipeg.

* Winnipeg is the home of Le Cercle Molière ( the oldest continuously running theatre company in Canada ), the Manitoba Theatre Centre ( Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre ), the Pantages Playhouse, Fantasy Theatre for Children ( Manitoba's oldest children's theatre ), Merlyn Productions, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Rainbow Stage, Theatre Projects Manitoba, the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, and the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.

Yanofsky was born to a Jewish family in Brody, Poland ( now western Ukraine ), and moved to Canada when he was eight months old, settling with his family in Winnipeg.

Divinsky learned his early chess as a teenager at the Winnipeg Jewish Chess Club, along with Yanofsky.

In 1908, he met his wife Rose Shapack, a Jewish Russian immigrant, during an address by Emma Goldman at the Winnipeg Radical Club.

Ross was raised in a secular Jewish family that moved from the Ukraine to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1917.

With the editorial backing of Dos Yiddishe Vort ( a local Jewish newspaper ), Ross was elected to the Winnipeg school board in 1936 and served in that capacity until 1939.

In 1940, Ross campaigned for Leslie Morris in the federal riding of Winnipeg North, and thereby contributed to the defeat of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation incumbent Abraham Albert Heaps, the most prominent Jewish politician in the city.

Green was born into a Jewish family in the mostly working-class north end of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

His campaign was not supported by many other prominent Jewish New Democrats in Winnipeg, however.

Spivak was born to a Jewish family in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University.

A regional variation of both emerged within Winnipeg, Manitoba's Jewish community, which also derived Winnipeg-style Cheesecake from New York recipes.

On June 22, 2004, Katz was elected as the first Jewish mayor of Winnipeg., beating Dan Vandal, Al Golden, and MaryAnn Mihychuk and receiving 42 % of the vote.

She was a director of Workforce 2000 and the Winnipeg Core Area Initiative and Employment Training Program, and has also been involved in the Law Society of Manitoba and the Winnipeg Jewish Child and Family organization.

It is a largely working class riding in Winnipeg and has traditionally had a large Jewish and immigrant population.

Born to a poor Russian Jewish family in London that emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada, she became a dedicated socialist, active in the Industrial Workers of the World ( Wobblies ) and a leader of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.

Dolin is currently a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Interfaith Immigration Council ( he himself is Jewish ), and the Social Planning Council for the City of Winnipeg.

Miller was raised in a Jewish family in north-end Winnipeg.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to a Jewish family, the son of Frank Buchwald and Bessie Portigal, he received a BA in 1948, an LL. B in 1952, an LL. M in 1957, and an honorary LL. D in 1994 all from the University of Manitoba.

The Jewish Post & News of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is Western Canada's first Anglo-Jewish newspaper.

Peretz Folk School of Winnipeg was founded in the city's Jewish district in the years immediately following the explosion of Jewish population in Winnipeg's North End caused by antisemitic pogroms in Russia that peaked in the 1880s.

Bethlehem Live is an all-volunteer living nativity produced by Gateway Christian Community Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Furby Street, with its Community Garden and Firby's Hill are in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

* Eastview Community Church, a local church in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Prior to her election, Brick worked in the Community Services Department of the City of Winnipeg.

Loewen has been a board member and chairman of Economic Development Winnipeg, a council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Manitoba, a board member and president of the Big Brothers and Sisters Association of Winnipeg and president of both the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and the Linden Woods Community Association.

Reimer has received a Mayor's Award for Leadership and Service to the Winnipeg Community, as well as a Certificate of Merit from the government of Canada.

She was the weekly cartoonist / illustrator for local Winnipeg Community Newspapers and the province wide Rupertsland News.

Plohman was educated at the University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, and Red River Community College.

St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg is still owned by the Grey Nuns ; hospitals previously owned, operated, or enlarged by the institute include the former Holy Cross Hospital in Calgary, St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon, and the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton.

The neighbourhood has several elementary schools: Bernie Wolfe Community School, Ecole Centrale ( Winnipeg ), Ecole Margaret-Underhill, Harold Hatcher Elementary School, Joseph Teres School, Radisson School, Wayoata Elementary School, Westview Elementary School ( Winnipeg ), and middle schools: Arthur Day Middle School, Bernie Wolfe Community School, Ecole Regent Park School, John W. Gunn Middle School, and three high schools ; Transcona Collegiate Institute ( TCI ), Murdoch MacKay Collegiate, and the French-immersion Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau -- the first public building named after the former Prime Minister.

The Talmud Torah name, in turn, disappeared when all parochial Jewish education in Winnipeg was moved to the new Asper Jewish Community Campus in Tuxedo during the 1990s.

There, he chaired the Community Welfare Planning Council, and worked tirelessly for a variety of organisations, including the Society for Crippled Children and Adults, the United Way, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet ( which he helped lift from obscurity ), the Board of Governors of the University of Manitoba ( of which he was chair ) and the Sharon Home.

Known for his meandering delivery and eclectic tastes, he hosted the Foam Monkey Visor radio show from 1998-2001 for CKUW Winnipeg Campus / Community Radio.

In Winnipeg, workers within the building and metal industries attempted to strengthen their bargaining ability by creating umbrella unions, the Building Trade Council and Metal Trade Council respectively, to encompass all metal and building unions.

In Winnipeg, workers within the building and metal industries attempted to strengthen their bargaining ability by creating umbrella unions, the Building Trade Council and Metal Trade Council respectively, to encompass all metal and building unions.

The Folk Arts Council of Winnipeg is the organizing body of Folklorama.

He has also given readings on CBC Radio and various other media as well as public performances funded by private organizations, universities, Harbourfront, Vancouver International Writers Festival, Saltwater Festival, Sechelt Writers ’ Festival, Wordfest: Banff Calgary International Writers Festival, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, National Book Festival, and the Canada Council.

In 1956, the Canadian Football Council was formed Sunday, January 22, at Winnipeg and national negotiation lists were introduced.

The City of Winnipeg then appealed both cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain which overruled the Supreme Court and held that the 1890 Act was consistent with the Manitoba Act.

These include: Chairman, Ramos Peace and Development Foundation ; Chairman, Boao Forum for Asia ; Trustee, International Crisis Group ( ICG ); Member, Advisory Group, UN University for Peace ; Honorary Director, General Douglas MacArthur Foundation ; Founding Member, Policy Advisory Commission, World Intellectual Property Organization ( PAC-WIPO ); Honorary Member, World Commission on Water for the 21st century ; Member, International Advisory Council, Asia House ; Patron, Opportunity International ( Philippines ); Global Advisor, University of Winnipeg ; Honorary Chairman, Yuchengco Center, De La Salle University ; Member, Advisory Board, Metrobank ; Honorary President, Human Development Network ( HDN ) Philippines ; Lifetime Honorary President, Christian Democrats International ( CDI ); and Chairman Emeritus, Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats ( CMD ) Party.

The ward is represented by a member of Winnipeg City Council, and also corresponds to the neighbourhood clusters of St. Boniface East and West.

The actual area of settlement, centered at present day Winnipeg, was limited to the Red River valley between Lower Fort Garry and Pembina, ND and the Assiniboine River valley between Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, Manitoba The District was governed by a Hudson's Bay Company appointed Governor of Assiniboia who was advised by members of the Council of Assiniboia.

He entered public life in 1975, being elected to the Winnipeg City Council.

In recognition of this gallant effort and the persistence of the Winnipeg Light Infantry, the Calgary Highlanders and the Canadian Scottish, a special ' Honorary Distinction ' was granted by Order in Council No. 10, 1934, of a special oak leaf shoulder badge now unique in the Canadian armed forces, and worn only by those three regiments at the time of adoption in 1938, and today by only two units, The Calgary Highlanders and The Canadian Scottish Regiment ( Princess Mary's ).

Fisher subsequently moved to Winnipeg, where he practised law and was a member of the University of Manitoba Council.

Queen was elected to the Winnipeg City Council in 1916, and continued to serve on this body until 1921.

In addition to the above responsibilities, Pagtakhan also served as Director of the Manitoba Cystic Fibrosis Centre, President of the Manitoba Pediatric Society, member of the Winnipeg Police Commission, the first Chair of the Board of Presidents of the Canadian Ethnocultural Council, and as National President of the United Council of Filipino Canadian Associations in Canada.

Huband was a member of the Metropolitan Council of Winnipeg from 1964 until 1968 ( in which year he served as its Vice Chair ).

After joining an alliance of progressive municipal politicians called Winnipeg into the ' 90s in the late 1980s, Selinger was elected to the Winnipeg City Council in 1989 as a candidate of the alliance in St. Boniface, defeating incumbent Guy Savoie.

He was a candidate for the Winnipeg City Council in 1974 and 1983, and unsuccessfully sought the federal NDP nomination for Winnipeg North Centre in 1984.

They proposed to cut the size of the Winnipeg City Council, and vowed not to raise taxes.

They also proposed to cut the Winnipeg Council, create government grants for tourism and adult education, and restore Tory cuts to health and other programs.