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	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Spivak died at age of 74 from complications related to heart surgery.
		While Spivak was able to improve on the Tories' electoral results in the 1973 election, he was not able to unseat popular NDP premier Ed Schreyer.
		Spivak is survived by his wife of 47 years, Senator Mira Spivak, and their three children.
	www.cjnews.com /pastIssues/02/aug8-02/front5.asp (512 words)

	Mira Spivak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mira Spivak (born July 12, 1934) is a member of the Canadian Senate representing the province of Manitoba.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mira_Spivak (288 words)

	Mira Spivak goes to war against jetskis (PWC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Senator Spivak wants the municipalities to have the power to impose restrictions on the use of jetskis "so that they can better respond to the needs of their citizens".
		FAPEL would like to inform Senator Spivak that in Quebec, the municipalities have always considered the cottagers as second class citizens and consequently are not likely to respond to their requests.
		Senator Spivak's document mentions that "during the preparation of the project, she will consult widely in order to give all those interested in the issue a chance to express their views." FAPEL has been trying desperately for two years now (and to no avail) to contact Senator Spivak to express their views.
	www.fapel.org /english/anmoto20.htm (574 words)

	CBC News - Viewpoint: Larry Zolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But her most impressive tie is to the Mulroney-appointed Senator Mira Spivak, the widow of Sidney Spivak, who led Manitoba's Tories in the 1970s.
		Spivak went on to become the leading Tory critic of Ed Schreyer's NDP government, first elected in Manitoba in 1969.
		Because Spivak was appointed by Mulroney, she's an automatic member of the present Tory caucus – which makes one wonder how a disciplinarian like Harper will deal with an Independent has worked to make May the leader of the Greens.
	www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20060904.html (1151 words)

	Mira @ ciarda85.bravehost.com - A Bravenet.com Hosted Site
		Mira is an oscillating variable star in the constellation Cetus, its surface increases and decreases in brightness over periods of time.
		Mira was the first non-supernova variable star discovered, and is also a double star.
		Mira was discovered by the astronomer David Fabricius in 1596 and it was named "Mira" (meaning "Wonderful") in 1662's Historiola Mirae Stellae, by Johannes Hevelius, for it acted like no other known star in the sky.
	ciarda85.bravehost.com /Mira.html (596 words)

	Pat's Boating in Canada: Bill S-26 would allow communities to restrict PWCs
		Senator Mira Spivak will introduce legislation in the next session of Parliament to give communities a way to deal with safety threats, noise, pollution and other hazards of personal watercraft.
		Her private member's bill is in response to Canadians in communities nationwide who say that the popular thrill craft take the pleasure out of summer for cottagers, swimmers, canoeists and other boaters, and often pose a safety threat or undue harm to the environment.
		During the drafting phase of the bill, wide public input is being sought from municipalities, cottage community associations, boating organizations, and the general public, to ensure concerned people can express their views and that the bill will enable them to deal with an issue affecting their quality of life.
	boating.ncf.ca /newsspivak.html (1888 words)

	Stopping that whine on the water Senator's bill would restrict or ban personal watercraft if locals wished @ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Manitoba Senator Mira Spivak has introduced a bill in the Senate that would require the federal government to restrict or even ban the use of personal watercraft on the country's waterways.
		Spivak's bill, which had its second reading earlier this month, the federal government would have to grant a municipality a personal watercraft restriction or ban if there was enough local support, unless it would impede navigation on the waterway.
		Spivak said she hopes to spend time at her family's cottage on Manitoba's West Hawk Lake -- a place she considers a peaceful oasis.
	www.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/qprinter/20010519/USEADN (890 words)

	Senate report urges boost to gas price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Manitoba Sen. Mira Spivak didn't deny some of the recommendations -- such as one which could see the price of a litre of gas double -- will be controversial.
		But Spivak said Canadians have to realize there is cost to the environment and economy for doing nothing.
		Spivak described many of the recommendations are common sense and have been proven successful in the United States and other countries.
	www.climatechangeconnection.org /pages/news2004/wfp04_nov26ps.html (311 words)

	Kyoto consultations have cost $22.3m since 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The federal government has spent $22.3 million on consultations related to the Kyoto protocol since 1998, according to figures obtained by Liberal Senator Mira Spivak.
		Spivak, a Kyoto backer, requested the figures after the Alberta government alleged Ottawa had not conducted meaningful consultations on how to comply with the Kyoto climate accord.
		Under attack in question period Wednesday, Anderson told Parliament he is now willing to allow the university to name whomever they wish to speak at the forum, scheduled for Tuesday.
	lakes.chebucto.org /NEWS/GLOBAL_WARMING/Cost_since_1998.htm (250 words)

	sen120298 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But Adams’ decision to break with party ranks was upstaged Tuesday by Conservative Sen. Mira Spivak’s decision to support the government bill that would maintain the park boundaries.
		Spivak also noted that the mining companies still have the opportunity to explore outside the national park.
		"Mira is a committed environmentalist, and I respect her for that," he said.
	www.ualberta.ca /ERSC/cheviot/sen120298.html (641 words)

	CBCNEWS Ottawa mum on relationship with biotech firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tory Senator Mira Spivak asked for details about research that Monsanto Canada is conducting at the department's facilities across Canada.
		Spivak, a member of the Senate agriculture committee, has an interest in biotech issues and the relationship between the government and companies such as Monsanto.
		But Vanclief says Spivak is asking for commercial information about Monsanto's activities, and Canada's privacy law gives the government the right to keep the information secret.
	newsworld.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/go.pl?1999/05/06/biotech990506 (309 words)

	Spivak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spivak pronoun, a gender-neutral pronoun named after Michael Spivak
		Olexandr Spivak, player of the FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Russian football club
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spivak (90 words)

	globeandmail.com : Green Party leader aims to recruit senators
		The most likely senator to make the jump is Mira Spivak, a former Red Tory appointed by Mr.
		Spivak, 72, who has been sitting as an Independent since February, 2004, endorsed Ms.
		Spivak could not be interviewed by phone because of a hearing impairment and stated "the rumour is not accurate."
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20060912.wxgreen12/BNStory/National/home (645 words)

	The Globe and Mail
		The private-member's bill cleared the Senate in an oral vote this week but still faces treacherous waters in the Commons, especially since the Prime Minister is likely to prorogue Parliament within days.
		Conservative Senator Mira Spivak, who introduced the bill, says the machines have become a concern throughout Canada because of noise, safety risks and pollution.
		Spivak said the bill is not intended to ban the machines, but "to give local communities the ability to have a choice and to decide what they want on their lakes."
	www.stonylake.on.ca /sea-doo_files/saferd.html (411 words)

	Zionism and Zionists
		The Tory leader, Sidney Spivak, a close friend of Izzy's wasn't half the entrepreneur Izzy was.
		Fellow charter members are Sidney Spivak and his wife, Senator Mira Spivak, the reddest Red Tory ever appointed to the Senate, and by Mulroney no less.
		Charter members are brilliant lawyer Faigie Fainman, a high school classmate of mine and the wife of the very handsome Dr. Jack Fainman, a doctor shot at and often threatened for performing abortions.
	www.zionism.8k.com /ep80.html (1074 words)

	Global Forest Science - Press Release - Senator Mira Spivak joins Global Forest Society
		VANCOUVER, BC- International Research Institute Global Forest Society is pleased to welcome the Honourable Senator Mira Spivak to its Honorary Board of Directors.
		Senator Spivak was the Deputy Chair of the Canadian Senate Subcommittee on the Boreal Forest in 1999, has headed Canadian delegations at Global climate change conferences, and is actively involved in many other campaigns to protect the world's natural environment.
		Senator Spivak was appointed to the Senate as a representative of Manitoba in 1986 and is one of only three female senators from this province.
	www.globalforestscience.org /newsroom/press_releases/2001_10.11__Senator_Mira_Spivak_joins_Global_Forest_Society.html (255 words)

	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: A Bibliography
		Cites Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" and her critique of Foucault, and Deleuze and Guattari.
		Asserts that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak refuses to endorse a blanket return to "native" languages in India, and that she suggests an "inter-literary" approach, in which "the teaching of English literature can become critical only if it is intimately yoked to the teaching of the literary or cultural production in the mother tongue."
		The author asserts that it is not possible to transfer the insights of postcolonial theory to the United States because of the unique features of U.S. Colonialism and quotes Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as saying that native peoples were only capable of "prepolitical maneuvers" before their subjection to "whole colonization and destruction."
	sun3.lib.uci.edu /~scctr/Wellek/spivak/K.html (1165 words)

	Open Canada's Post 1901 Census Records, Correspondence to/from Canadian Ministers of Parliament- The Global Gazette
		Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 2:12 PM Subject: Bill S-12, to release Post 1901 Census to Natnl.
		Lyn Duncan, White Rock, BC 07/18/2001 - email from office of Senator Spivak to Muriel M. Davidson.
		Senator Spivak is out of the country for a week, but she will receive your request upon her arrival.
	globalgenealogy.com /Census/Senator087.htm (1188 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		If there, they likely would have been on the dais, even if they were not slated to speak.
		So too should the absences of the Jewish senators be noted: Jack Austin, Jerry Grafstein, Leo Kolber, Mira Spivak and Richard Kroft.
		Again, their presence would surely have been acknowledged by the speakers had they attended and shown their support for Israel when it's needed most.
	www.cjnews.com /pastIssues/02/may2-02/community/csillag.htm (613 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Each site requires years of management planning and Canada has typically not put forward to the UN more than about one site a year.
		Spivak urged other senators Tuesday to endorse the boreal site spanning the Manitoba-Ontario border.
		The Boreal Forest Network gave Spivak an award last week for her contribution to the Senate report Competing Realities: The Boreal Forest at Risk.
	poplarriverfirstnation.ca /docs/WHSSpivakBoreal09Dec04.doc (398 words)

	FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Air Canada Dominace untenable !! says minister
		Tory Senator Mira Spivak said Air Canada is being "managed into destruction or into mediocrity."
		Donolo told them the airline has had to cut costs, and one way to do that is meals.
		Another way is by finding new areas of profit, including cut-rate services like Tango, where passengers have to pay for their pretzels.
	www.flyertalk.com /forum/showpost.php?p=156402&postcount=1 (565 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		HEALTH CANADA STONEWALLS SENATE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE September 28, 1998 The Hill Times Lori Kittelberg According to this story, when secret government documents were publicly released two weeks ago suggesting that far more research is needed before Canadian farmers are allowed to inject their cows with rBST, behind the document search was a senator's assisant.
		Barbara Robson, a former journalist who used to work in the federal Access to Information Commissioner's Office, is an assistant to Manitoba Tory Senator Mira Spivak.
		Spivak is a member of the Senate's Agriculture Committee which is investigating the safety of the bovine-growth-hormone for humans and animals.
	archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca /fsnet/1998/9-1998/fs-09-30-98-01.txt (1332 words)

	The Green Lane: [Speech] -- Notes for an address by the Honourable David Anderson - The Big Picture: Canada's Nature ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		My sincere thanks to Ducks Unlimited Canada for organizing this Conservation Dinner, and my gratitude to Senator Mira Spivak for sharing with me the pleasure of co-hosting this evening.
		The inspiration for a discussion on conservation can be found right across our country in all the features of this vast and magnificent land that is Canada.
		My co-chair tonight, Senator Mira Spivak is an example of what a committed parliamentarian can do to keep the agenda of Canada's Wild Species and Wild Places in the forefront of our work in Ottawa.
	www.ec.gc.ca /minister/speeches/2002/021120_s_e.htm (2126 words)

	Nature Canada-Fall 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Within the political arena, Senator Mira Spivak and MPs Karen Kraft Sloan and Clifford Lincoln all show courage, commitment and leadership as ambassadors of environmental protection—not an easy task considering the ‘industry first’ environmental policy of the Chrétien government.
		Senator Mira Spivak is deputy chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources, and former deputy chair of the Senate Subcommittee on the Boreal Forest.
		Clifford Lincoln is chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, which is responsible for national parks, and chair of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, which addresses issues such as sustainable development.
	www.cnf.ca /magazine/fall02/connect.html (652 words)

	Independent inquiry needed into firing of whistleblowers -- Eggertson 171 (5): 438 -- Canadian Medical Association ...
		safety ahead of their own careers," Mira Spivak wrote in a July
		Spivak has asked Martin and Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh to
		Spivak, who sat on that committee, noted that the 1999 committee
	www.cmaj.ca /cgi/content/full/171/5/438 (312 words)

	GE Food Alert Campaign Center - Headlines
		As the first of the supermarket protests against genetically modified foods hit the Toronto area Sept. 27, a senior member of the Senate agriculture committee mused about using the committee this winter as a forum for a debate on GM products.
		Winnipeg Conservative senator Mira Spivak was quoted as saying, "I think genetically modified foods will be one of the leading debates for the next few years.
		I would like to see the committee hold hearings to air this issue.
	www.gefoodalert.org /News/news.cfm?News_ID=906 (400 words)

	7-Misc: Monsanto saw secret EU documents
		The Observer has also learned that Monsanto received documents from the files of a Canadian senator involved in investigating controversies surrounding BST.
		Senator Mira Spivak stated that documents used in preparing hearings on BST were faxed from an office in the Canadian senate.
		Last month, Canada permanently banned BST after hearing testimony from research scientists in its health ministry, who challenged the hormone's safety.
	www.gene.ch /genet/1999/Mar/msg00001.html (558 words)

	Senator Mira Spivak does not like jetskis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Whereas a number of Canadians nationwide have voiced their concern with respect to the increasing problem of noise pollution, nuisance levels, environmental pollution and harm to wildlife caused by personal watercrafts (jetskis) on Canadian waters, Senator Mira Spivak wants the government of Canada to do something, quick!
		Listen to what Senator Spivak has to say
		Since we do not tolerate motorcycles speeding around the beach or picnic tables in our parks why is anyone surprised when the general public views jetskis, speeding around in the water, as intolerable?
	www.fapel.org /english/anmoto23.htm (454 words)

	Shredders work overtime as MPs threaten fines, jail
		That hope was dashed when, shortly after the justice committee approved the bill, the first reports alleging the shredding of research files at Health Canada began to filter in.
		Health Department employees contacted the office of Senator Mira Spivak to report an unusually high incidence of paper-shredding within the department's health protection branch.
		Scientists there had complained to the Senate agriculture committee that they were pressed by superiors to approve the bovine growth hormone, rBST.
	www.carleton.ca /Capital_News/06111998/g2.htm (607 words)

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