Mandrake was educated at the Red River Community College, receiving a certificate in Motor Vehicle work. He worked in vehicle body repair before entering politics. Mandrake also served with the Canadian Armed Forces (Land) for twelve and a half years, holding administrative posts in Canada and Europe. He was honourably released with the rank of Warrant Officer in 1968.
Mandrake first ran for office in the 1988 provincial election, and defeated incumbent Progressive ConservativeRic Nordman by 187 votes in Assiniboia. The Liberals increased their parliamentary representation from one seat to twenty in this election, and Mandrake sat as a member of the official opposition. Liberal support trailed off in the provincial election of 1990, and he was defeated by PC candidate Linda McIntosh. He has not sought a return to political office since this time.
Group Captain Mandrake reports that his children are forced to watch broadcasts of Big Brother for up to 18 hours a day on their telescreens, for party indoctrination and propaganda purposes.
YAMAHA DIES": Group Captain Mandrake links to this CNN.com story, which reports that Genichi Kawakami, who took over his father's business and made Japan's Yamaha into a household name around the world through a combination of musical instruments and motorbikes, died on Saturday at the age of 90.
RUFFINI ON ED RENDELL, former mayor of Philadelphia for much of the 1990s (I lived and worked across the Delaware during much of his tenure in office) and likely Democratic nominee for governor of Pennsylvania.
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