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| Affiliation | New Democratic |
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| Name | Wendy Lill |
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, Nova Scotia , Canada |
| Email | None |
| Website | http://www.wendylill.ca/ |
| Born |
November 02, 1950
(74 years)
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Modifed | User 13
Dec 24, 2003 02:23pm |
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| Info | Wendy was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Dartmouth on June 2, 1997 and re-elected on November 27, 2000. She is the federal New Democratic Party spokesperson for Canadian Heritage; Media, Communications, Culture and the Arts; Persons with Disabilities; Children and Youth
Wendy was born in Vancouver and raised in Ontario. Following graduation from York University with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science in 1970, she worked briefly as a community worker in Toronto and Northern Ontario and then began writing for radio, film, and stage. She settled in Winnipeg in 1980 where she worked as a freelance journalist writing for such well-known CBC Radio shows as "Our Native Land" and "Identities."
In 1988, she and her husband, Richard, moved with their two children to Dartmouth, where Wendy continued to write plays and work in her community.
She has been the President of Integration Action Group - a provincial advocacy group for children with special needs; Vice President (Eastern) of the Playwrights Union of Canada; a co-founder of the Eastern Front Theatre Company; a member of the Nova Scotia Writers' Federation; a member of the outreach committee at Cole Harbour United Church; and a parent volunteer. She is also a past member of the Board of the Dartmouth Day Care Centre.
Over the past twelve years, Wendy has been nominated four times for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for her plays The Occupation of Heather Rose, All Fall Down, The Glace Bay Miner's Museum, and Corker.
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