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| | Frances Lankin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Lankin was elected Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the Toronto riding of Beaches—Woodbine in the 1990 provincial election, succeeding retiring NDP MPP Marion Bryden. | | | The Rae government was defeated in the provincial election of 1995, although Lankin was re-elected in Beaches-Woodbine by about 3,000 votes over her nearest opponent. | | | The NDP under Bob Rae won its first-ever majority government in this election, and Lankin, then thirty-six years old, was appointed to cabinet on October 1, 1990 as Minister of Government Services and Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Lankin
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| | ANTI-CHOICE, PRO-ABORT ONT. MPP HARANGUES TORY MINISTER |
| | Lankin insisted that Helen Johns, the minister responsible for women's issues, join her in a letter to the Catholic school board demanding it stop pro-life fundraising. | | | Johns' first rebuff of Lankin's request led to another more emphatic appeal: "Minister, in order to stand up for women you have to stand up for their right of access to legal medical services, all of them, including the right of access to abortion services. | | | TORONTO, Oct 27 (LSN.ca) - Yesterday, New Democrat MPP Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York) brought to the Ontario legislature her fury against the Catholic School Board's decision to raise funds for the crisis pregnancy service Aid To Women. |
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/1999/oct/99102701.html
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| | Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Hansard |
| | Hon Ms Lankin: I was the lead minister of three ministers responsible for the negotiations, yes. | | | Hon Ms Lankin: The decision was that we would delist it and that delisting would be effective, I think, November 15. | | | Hon Ms Lankin: -- been public with his announcement about closing his office. |
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http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/committee_debates/35_parl/session1/assembly/m033.htm
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| | ABORTION ACTIVIST POLITICIAN TO HEAD TORONTO UNITED WAY |
| | In the summer of 1998 Lankin was livid over the removal of abortion services at a downtown Toronto hospital after it merged with St. Michael's Catholic hospital. | | | She demanded that the Minister of Health join in her condemnation of the Catholic board: "Minister, in order to stand up for women you have to stand up for their right of access to legal medical services, all of them, including the right of access to abortion services. | | | TORONTO, June 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) - An Ontario NDP Member of Provincial Parliament, Frances Lankin, has agreed to resign from politics this September to head up the United Way of Greater Toronto. |
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/jun/01062601.html
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| | Selected Hansard - 2000 October |
| | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York): My question is to the Minister of Health. | | | Ms Lankin: But Minister, I was asking you about queue-jumping and about alleged contraventions of the Canada Health Act. | | | Ms Lankin: Minister, we know there are investigations underway. |
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http://www.oma.org/hansards/oct2000.htm
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| | Eye - United Way hangs a left - 07.12.01 |
| | Before being elected to Queen's Park as the NDP member for Beaches-East York in 1990, Lankin was a prison guard, and then she acted as negotiator for the Ontario Public Services Employees Union. | | | United Way of Greater Toronto announced an inspired decision on June 21, selecting New Democratic Party MPP Frances Lankin as its new president and chief executive officer. | | | Good on United Way for appointing Frances Lankin as its head. |
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http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_07.12.01/news/editorial.html
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| | Good News - They ain't gonna tie us down!! |
| | Lankin, a former NDP health minister, introduced a similar bill last November but it died when the legislature was prorogued. | | | The bill would prohibit the use of restraints unless they prevent serious bodily harm to the patient or another senior or is consented to by the family. | | | The new bill was rewritten with the assistance of the health minister and his staff. |
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http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/parkmail2/2001b/msg02037.html
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| | Toronto Sun Columnist: Lorrie Goldstein - The suburban poor |
| | United Way President Frances Lankin -- a former cabinet minister in Bob Rae's NDP government -- writes in Poverty by Postal Code that the UW hopes to inspire us to a "collective vision" to fight poverty and strengthen neighbourhoods. | | | Lankin writes the UW report was written to "provoke governments and communities to act." But act how? | | | But like umpteen reports before it, this one is long on stating the obvious and short on real solutions, other than to spend more on infrastructure, affordable housing, income support. |
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Lorrie_Goldstein/2004/04/07/411220.html
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| | math lessons - Marion Bryden |
| | From 1985 to 1990, Bryden served as her party's critic for Colleges and Universities, the Solicitor-General, Correctional Services, Seniors' Issues, Revenue and Transport. | | | She retired prior to the 1990 election, at age seventy-two. | | | The Beaches—Woodbine riding, now renamed as Beaches—East York, has remained in NDP hands since that time with Bryden being succeeded by Frances Lankin and then Michael Prue. |
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http://www.mathdaily.com/lessons/Marion_Bryden
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| | Beaches-East York |
| | It has elected New Democrats provincially forever, from Marion Bryden to Frances Lankin, and federally it was also an NDP lock until the 1993 Liberal landslide. | | | the former mayor of East York and Toronto city councillor, He got more votes in the byelection, almost 50%, thats more than Frances got in the last election. | | | Frances Lankin had been the MPP for years and is loved as far as i know by the people in the Beaches. |
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http://www.electionprediction.org/2003_on/riding/beaches-east-york.htm
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| | TheStar.com - Churley brings down final curtain on Rae era |
| | Last week, Churley announced she, too, will resign from the Legislature and seek a seat in the House of Commons once the federal election is called. | | | But vestiges of the Rae years hung on at Queen's Park, albeit in the opposition benches, in the form of prominent members of his cabinet &; people like Frances Lankin, Floyd Laughren, Dave Cooke, Dave Christopherson and Marilyn Churley. | | | First to go was Cooke, who took a government job with the hated Harrisites; next was Laughren, who did the same; then Lankin, who became head of the United Way of Greater Toronto; and Christopherson, who is now a federal MP. |
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1116022217306&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795
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| | Lankin ND It Consultants |
| | of Citizens State Bank of Lankin, Loan Officer Position 60 MM... | | | of Lisbon, Scott Udby of Lankin, (back row, from left) Kenneth... | | | The domain of Imperial Moff Par Lankin, a warlord who set up his... |
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http://www.itconsultantsdirectory.com/131/Lankin-ND-it-consultants.html
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| | Media Advisory - Mayor, United Way's Frances Lankin deliver pizza by train to TTC subway customers : ArriveNet Press ... |
| | TORONTO, Oct. 5 /CNW/ - Toronto Mayor David Miller and Frances Lankin, President and Chief Executive Officer, United Way of Greater Toronto, will deliver pizzas by subway train to Bloor-Yonge Station tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. | | | Who: Toronto Mayor David Miller and Greater Toronto United Way President and Chief Executive Officer Frances Lankin | | | Media Advisory - Mayor, United Way's Frances Lankin deliver pizza by train to TTC subway customers |
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http://press.arrivenet.com/business/article.php/465979.html
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| | News : MassMutual Campaign Awarded "Best Of Show" (InternetWire) |
| | ...President of the University of British Columbia, Senator Jack Austin, and Frances Lankin, CEO and President of The Un... | | | ...Frances Vicknair, LOGIC study participant, New Orleans, Louisiana....... | | | ..." said Frances Emerson, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, MassMutual.... |
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http://rotteneggs.com/r/show/se/104316.html
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| | Beaches-East York |
| | In the southern part of the riding, Lankin's machine was largely responsible for the election of Sandra Bussin, who beat two powerful incumbents to become the only rookie member of the Megacity council. | | | Remember that it was Lankin who pushed successfully for East York to get a third member on the Megacity council. | | | However, much of that is due to the landslide advantage former East York mayor Dave Johnson held in his home turf--but he's running elsewhere this time, and besides, this was traditionally the strongest NDP part of his old riding. |
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http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~m6chan/1999_ontario/toronto/beaches-east-york.html
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| | Ontario Community Support Association -Sr health services |
| | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York): To the Minister of Health | | | Ms Lankin: Minister, we can have a long debate back and forth about | | | Page Updated by HST on Nov 23, 1999 |
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http://www.ocsa.on.ca/feedback/hansard_99_00/body_hansard_991025b.html
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| | CBC - Ontario Votes 2003 - Ridings |
| | Frances Lankin, who was first elected in 1990, was appointed to the Provincial Cabinet as Minister of Health and Minister of Economic Development and Trade. | | | in 2001 Lankin resigned, after which Michael Prue won the riding in a by-election. | | | In the old riding of Beaches-Woodbine, the NDP has held sway since 1975 until the present. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/ontariovotes2003/riding/003
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| | Eye - Lankin looks for a way forward - 08.15.02 |
| | She was the New Democratic Party MPP for Beaches-East York and had spent a decade as a partisan politician, and it seemed odd that the United Way's board of directors would reach so far out of the box to find a new leader. | | | Frances Lankin was hired in June, 2001 as president and CEO of Canada's largest and most powerful United Way agency, and she began work there almost a year ago. | | | This is Lankin's task for United Way over the next five months, even as the fundraising campaign is underway: providing sophisticated leadership for an open-ended process. |
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http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_08.15.02/news/citystate.html
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| | The Ontarians With Disabilities Act Committee: Ontario Legislature hansard dd Nov/26/98; The ODA Committee is a ... |
| | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-Woodbine): My question is to the Premier. | | | The Ontarians With Disabilities Act Committee: Ontario Legislature hansard dd Nov/26/98; The ODA Committee is a voluntary coalition of individuals and community organizations who have united to secure the passage in Ontario of a new law which would achieve a barrier-free society for persons with disabilities. | | | You already had an obligation as a government under the charter to review all legislation and bring it in line with provisions of the charter and the Human Rights Code. |
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http://www.odacommittee.net/hansard24.html
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| | Prime Minister Kim Campbell announced she would promote NAFTA in the upcoming elections. | | | Ontario may challenge in court the federal government's jurisdiction to implement NAFTA. | | | Lankin also said the Ontario government, concerned that NAFTA will supersede national and provincial laws, will pursue measures to protect its energy and water resources. |
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http://www.etext.org/Politics/Trade.News/Volume.2/tnb-02.138
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| | Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Hansard |
| | It is my duty to call upon you to elect a Chair of the committee. | | | There being no further nominations, I declare nominations closed and Ms Lankin duly elected Chair of the committee. | | | The second item on the agenda is election of the Vice-Chair. |
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http://www.ontla.on.ca/french/hansard/committee_debates/36_parl/session2/agencies/a001.htm
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| | The Toronto Star : A titan for the people @ HighBeam Research |
| | Frances Ollmann grew up to be Frances Lankin - jail guard, union | | | From jail guard to United Way head, Frances Lankin fights for the | | | summer's day in 1960, 6-year-old Frances Ollmann broiled in the sun |
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http://static.highbeam.com/t/thetorontostar/march162002/atitanforthepeople
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| | Nov97 - NDP says: Put children first |
| | Across-the-board cuts by the federal Liberal and Harris Conservative governments are hurting our children, said Ontario New Democratic Party Leader Howard Hampton, as he kicked off the New Democratic Party's "Putting Children First" Campaign. | | | Hampton was joined by Alexa McDonough, National NDP Leader and Frances Lankin, Ontario NDP Critic for Children and Youth, at a news conference in Toronto to launch a campaign which exposes the contrast between government rhetoric and the ugly reality: children across Ontario are being hurt. | | | "Families across Ontario are clearly worried about the Harris government's plans for child care in Ontario,"said Frances Lankin, who chaired the NDP Child Care Hearings. |
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http://www.web.net/~ondp/nod/dec97/kidsfirst.htm
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| | NOW On / NewsFront / Feature |
| | Hampton has occasionally spoken favourably of the example of British Labour leader Tony Blair, who has alienated the party from its more radical members and prompted questions about whether his “New Labour’’ is much different from the Conservative party. | | | That seems destined to be a photo finish between Frances Lankin — Rae’s most impressive cabinet minister and the perceived front-runner — and northern MPP Howard Hampton. | | | Does that mean that — irony of ironies — Kormos will have to support Lankin, right-hand woman of his nemesis, Bob Rae. |
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http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/15/40/News/feature.html
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| | Beaches-East York |
| | AL's 01/11 quote above is right: once Liberal support starts dying (as is now starting to happen), voters will turn to the alternative that's ideologically closest to them. | | | The riding has one of the largest NDP associations in the province and it goes into swing for federal, provincial, and municipal elections regardless of the friendships of the provincial MPP and in any case, knowing Lankin, I doubt very much she would tell the NDP machine to lay off even if she could. | | | Lankin may or may not be a friend of Minna's but that's really irrelevent. |
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http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~m6chan/2000_federal/on/beaches-east-york.html
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| | Hansard Issue: L188 |
| | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-Woodbine): I am very pleased today to support the private member's bill by the member for Wilson Heights. | | | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-Woodbine): This morning I had an opportunity to participate in the debate on a private member's bill sponsored by the member for Wilson Heights. | | | The piece of legislation he proposes deals with alternative medicine and ensuring that practitioners of alternative medicine have an opportunity to do so as long as it is consistent with good patient care in a way that is free from harassment by the medical establishment in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. |
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http://hansardindex.ontla.on.ca/hansardeissue/36-1/l188.htm
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| | CWRC - Globe & Mail - Ontario to Beef Up Child Protection |
| | Unless she [Social Services Minister Janet Ecker] puts some more money into the front-line enforcement of the legislation, nothing is going to change." | | | New Democratic Party MPP Frances Lankin warned, "It doesn't matter what legislative changes you make. | | | But they insisted that the government give more money to children's aid societies, which already lack the resources to adequately serve the children who should be in their care. |
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http://www.childwelfare.ca/cwrcnws4.shtml
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| | Selected Hansard - April 2000 |
| | When the NDP was in government from 1990-95, I remember working with our ministers of health, Frances Lankin and Ruth Grier. | | | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York): Acting Premier, it will be interesting to see how these negotiations come out and whether in fact we do make it better. | | | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York): Could we for a moment focus on the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. |
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http://www.oma.org/hansards/apr2000.htm
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| | Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council |
| | Frances Lankin was appointed to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of Greater Toronto in September 2001. | | | She went on to serve as Minister of Health (1991-93), and Minister of Economic Development and Trade (1993-1995). | | | Elected in 1990, she was appointed Minister of Government Services and Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet. |
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http://www.triec.ca/initiatives/ChampionBios/Lankin.htm
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| | Welcome To EcdevJournal.com |
| | Frances Lankin was appointed Minister of Economic Development and Trade in February 1993. | | | Prior to being elected, Ms Lankin was provincial negotiator with the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union. | | | Ms Lankin chairs the Cabinet and its Economic Development Committee, She is also a member of Policy and Priorities Committee and Theasury Board. |
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http://www.ecdevjournal.com/pubs/1994/art001_94.htm
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| | OPSEU Provincial Women's Committee: PWC Conference Index |
| | Frances Lankin, former MPP for Beaches-East York and the incoming president of the United Way of Toronto. | | | Frances was also a founding member of the | | | Highlights include a warm welcome from OPSEU president Leah Casselman. |
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http://www.opseu.org/committees/pwcconferenceindex.htm
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| | davidartemiw.com |
| | Might Frances be the next mayor of Toronto? | | | What a battle that would be: Lankin v. | | | Is Frances planning a re-entry into public life? |
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http://davidartemiw.com/2002/03/some-interesting-stories-in-paper-over.html
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| | Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council |
| | Frances Lankin is president and CEO of United Way of Greater Toronto. | | | It would help address the premier's concern about fiscal imbalance in Confederation; it is also an investment in the capacities of Ontario's immigrants, and in the economic prosperity that depends on their contributions. |
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http://www.triec.ca/media/MediaClippings/StarApr0805.htm
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| | Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Hansard |
| | The government has no amendments to present to the committee today, but you can rest assured that the government is working on it. | | | We did not make any point other than that they were about to be exploited by the United States system. | | | Ms Lankin: I think it's very important that we understand that there are people who are going to be voting on this bill who don't understand what in fact their government is doing. |
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http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/committee_debates/36_parl/session1/gengov/g020.htm
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| | Toronto Sun Columnist: Mark Bonokoski - Grit screw-ups kill agency for disabled |
| | Frances Lankin, president of the United Way of Greater Toronto, wrote a similar letter to Joe Volpe, then the HRSDC's minister, severely criticizing the government's new tact in the allocation of community-service contracts. | | | Toronto Mayor David Miller immediately saw the process as both flawed and disastrous for small agencies such as Linkup, and dashed off a post-Christmas letter stating as much to Prime Minister Paul Martin. |
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Mark_Bonokoski/2005/01/26/910207.html
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| | United Way |
| | Frances Lankin, President and Chief Executive Officer, leads United Way of Greater Toronto. | | | The president's senior executive team is made up of a Vice-President and Chief Administrative Officer, and Vice Presidents of Fundraising, Allocations and Community Services, Marketing and Communications, e-Business, and Information Services. | | | To see the organizational profile of our Campaign Cabinet, click here. |
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http://www.unitedwaytoronto.com/who_we_are/who_we_are_index.html
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| | CTV.ca Patient or Prisoner |
| | She was stripped of dignity and she was crying. | | | The last year has been tough on everyone in Frances Ollman's family, including her daughter, Ontario politician Frances Lankin. | | | We have legislation for the use of physical restraints in other settings; the police have limitations, jails have limitations. |
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1027383413456_22792613
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| | Photos |
| | Antonia Maioni, Yves Vaillancourt, Frances Lankin, Roger Gibbins, Louis Favreau and Marcel Lauzière |
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| | HEALTH AND HOUSING CROSSROADS |
| | Frances is also the president of the United Way of Greater Toronto. | | | The Forum began with our inspirational morning speaker, Frances Lankin, who has fought many personal and social battles to improve the quality of life for seniors. | | | Frances validated our suspicions that ageism lay at the root of much of the resistance to changing programs for seniors. |
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http://www.web.net/~ocsco/healthandhousing/forum.shtml
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| | Buzz Hargrove had major problems in his attempt to bring the CAW to her after the second ballot. | | | Hampton's victory was also indicative of the differences within the party establishment, showing its inability to control and unitedly lead the party in selecting a new leader. | | | Later, Kormos made a principled refusal to move his supporters to either of the remaining third ballot candidates calling upon them instead to assess the programs of the candidates before making their decisions. |
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| | Technology in Government: Ontario government works with industry to rev-up computer-sector |
| | The Advisory Committee on the Computing Sector, which devised the recommend ations that Lankin acted upon, will now be folded into the province's Council for an Ontario Information Infrastructure, which was established last year to advise the government on a te lecommunications strategy. | | | At that time, however, the committee asked for $18.8 million in government funding to support a long list of initiatives. | | | While Lankin came up with only $10.6 mil lion, Hayward said the industry partners were not dismayed: "We were somewhat disappoi nted, but we understand the government is trying to control its expenditures," he commente d. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3701/is_199409/ai_n8714780
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| | publicpower :: The Ontario NDP |
| | The North Toronto Post recognized his exceptional commitment to his constituents by naming Michael Prue "Best Local Politician" in 1999. | | | Michael Prue has a long and distinguished career standing up for the people of this riding.On September 20, 2001 he won a by-election to replace long-time MPP Frances Lankin, handily winning with almost 50% of the vote. |
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http://www.publicpower.ca/the_party/prue.htm
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| | Toronto City Summit Alliance - TCSA Initiatives - Affordable Housing Coalition |
| | Lankin, the president of the United Way of Greater Toronto, returns to Toronto with a head full of ideas culled from a two-day workshop here on sustainable cities, organized by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. | | | I think that there are families and neighbourhoods that are approaching desperation. | | | Lankin said the "very sad news" in Toronto is that new immigrant areas are tied directly to "stressed" neighbourhoods. |
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http://www.torontoalliance.ca/tcsa_initiatives/immigrant_employment_council/news.asp?articleID=396
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| | babble: Election Fallout: NDP Leadership |
| | There was no doubt on the floor of the convention, rightly or wrongly, that on the last ballot Hampton was the person to vote for if you believed in a change from the Rae years and Lankin was the person to vote for if you were a Rae loyalist. | | | The Lewises, most of the Rae cabinet, Bob Rae himself (informally) and most of the party machine and apparatchiks backed Lankin. | | | Hampton was also more willing as a candidate to differentiate himself from Rae and make some criticisms of the NDP govenrment (though not as much as Kormos) where Lankin's approach was basically to defend everything the government had done and not proffer any alternatives or criticisms. |
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http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=25&t=000454
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| | Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Hansard |
| | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York): With respect to the amendments to the Mental Health Act, of course I would like to extend our thoughts and cares to the Smith, Kainz and Antidormi families, who are here today. | | | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York): Premier, I was shocked to read that there are twice as many seniors now relying on food banks, and I actually hope you were too when you read that, despite your little tirade there. | | | Ms Frances Lankin (Beaches-East York): First of all to the Premier's announcement, let me assure you that I look forward to co-operating and working with you to help advance this very important issue. |
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http://www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/house_debates/37_parl/session1/L047A.htm
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