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Theodore Calvin Arnott is a Canadian politician who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on September 6,1990,representing the Riding of Wellington. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and represents the Riding of Wellington—Halton Hills in the Ontario Legislature. Arnott has served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 42nd and 43rd Parliaments of Ontario.
James K. Gordon is a Canadian politician,who served as mayor of Sudbury,Ontario from 1976 to 1981 and from 1991 to 2003,and as a Member of Provincial Parliament for the provincial electoral district of Sudbury from 1981 to 1987. He briefly served in the Executive Council of Ontario,holding the position of Minister of Government Services in 1985.
Jim Wilson is a retired Canadian politician in Ontario,Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Simcoe—Grey,and its predecessor riding of Simcoe West,from 1990 to 2022. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario caucus from his first election until November 2,2018,when he resigned from caucus due to allegations of sexual misconduct. While part of the PC caucus,Wilson was chosen by his fellow caucus members on July 2,2014,to serve as interim leader of the party and Leader of the Opposition following the resignation of Tim Hudak. He continued to serve as Leader of the Opposition until September 2015 when new party leader,Patrick Brown,entered the legislature through a by-election. He was reelected in June 2018,but resigned from cabinet and the Progressive Conservative caucus on November 2,2018. He sat as an independent member for the remainder of the 42nd Parliament of Ontario and did not seek re-election in the 2022 Ontario general election.
Laurie J. Scott is a Canadian politician who served as Ontario Minister of Infrastructure from 2019 to 2021 and Minister of Labour from 2018 to 2019 in the Doug Ford cabinet. She is a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock since 2018.
Steve Gilchrist is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003 and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris.
Marjory LeBreton is a Canadian former leader of the Government in the Senate of Canada;a member of the Canadian cabinet;and past national chair of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Canada. She worked with four leaders of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - John Diefenbaker,Robert Stanfield,Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney - from 1962 to 1993 before being appointed to the Senate on the advice of Mulroney. She sat as a Progressive Conservative Senator from her appointment until moving with most of her caucus colleagues to the new Conservative Party of Canada in 2004,of which she was soon elected to Chief Whip. She served as an advisor to then opposition leader Stephen Harper during the 2006 election,which the Conservative Party won. After the election,she was named to the cabinet position Leader of the Government in the Senate. On July 4,2013,LeBreton announced she would not continue in the position as of the next cabinet shuffle,which occurred later that summer. She retired from the Senate upon reaching her 75th birthday on July 4,2015.
Robert Douglas Nicholson is a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Niagara Falls in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2019 as a member of the Conservative Party. Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper,he served as Minister of National Defence,Minister of Justice,Minister of Foreign Affairs,and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons. When the Harper Government ended,he was appointed Justice Critic in the Official Opposition shadow cabinet.
Roger John Gallaway,is a Canadian educator and retired politician. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2006,representing the riding of Sarnia—Lambton for the Liberal Party.
Frederic Young Newton was a politician in Manitoba,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1911 to 1917,and again from 1922 to 1932. He was a member of the Conservative Party.
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Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board is a public,secular,English language school board headquartered in Peterborough,Ontario. It is the amalgamation of the former Peterborough County Board of Education and the Northumberland-Clarington Board of Education and serves the communities located in the Kawarthas to the north,and south to Lake Ontario. Hastings County is its eastern border and its western border extends to the City of Kawartha Lakes and to the edge of the City of Oshawa.
PACE at Peterborough Collegiate,formerly Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School,is a public secondary school located in Peterborough,Ontario,Canada and is a member of the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. It is one of the oldest public schools in the country and was the only public high school in the city of Peterborough until the opening of Kenner Collegiate Vocational Institute in 1952. Regular student programming ended at Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School in June 2012. The building was renamed Peterborough Collegiate and in August 2012 opened as a re-purposed facility offering alternative and continuing education (ACE).
Allan L. Higdon is a former Ottawa City Councillor and acting mayor of Ottawa. He served on council from 1994 through 2000.
Rick Johnson is a Canadian former politician and musician. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2009 to 2011 who represented the riding of Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock. He was elected in a by-election on March 5,2009,defeating Progressive Conservative leader John Tory. He lost to Laurie Scott in the 2011 election who had previously held the riding.
George Guillet was a Canadian politician.
The 39th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was a legislature of the government of the Province of Ontario,Canada. It officially opened November 29,2007,and ended on June 1,2011. The membership was set by the 2007 Ontario general election on October 10,2007.
Frederick Greystock Robertson was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada.
Daryl Bennett is a retired Canadian politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. He was twice-elected as the mayor of Peterborough,having won the position in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. In October 2018,councillor Diane Therrien defeated him in his bid for a third term.
Gary Bennett is a Canadian politician and local business person. He served as the mayor of the City of Kingston,Ontario in Canada from 1994 to 2000.