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Encyclopedia > Mira Spivak

Mira Spivak (born July 12, 1934) is a member of the Canadian Senate representing the Province of Manitoba.


Born in Rovno, Poland, Spivak receive a B.A., Honors Degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Manitoba.


She was appointed to the Senate on the recommendation of then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1986 as a Progressive Conservative. She refused to join the Conservative Party of Canada when the PC Party merged with the Canadian Alliance in 2003 and now sits in the Senate as an independent.


Spivak is the widow of Manitoba politician Sidney Spivak. She is due to retire from the Senate when she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75 on July 12, 2009.


Spivak holds liberal views on most social issues. She allowed her name to be used on a full-page pro-choice advertisement that ran in the Winnipeg Free Press on October 11, 1989.


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Sidney Spivak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (681 words)
Spivak was born to a Jewish family in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University.
Spivak was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1966, in the upscale west-Winnipeg riding of River Heights.
Spivak resigned from the Manitoba legislature in 1979, to run for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the federal riding of Winnipeg-Fort Garry.
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