24 Facts About Linda McIntosh

Linda Laughlin McIntosh was born on December 14,1943 and is a former politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Linda McIntosh was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1990 to 1999, and a cabinet minister for most of this period.

Linda McIntosh was educated in Canada and Europe, attending eleven different schools during the course of her elementary and high school education.

Linda McIntosh graduated with honors from the Manitoba Teachers' College in 1963.

Linda McIntosh enjoyed a brief stint as an illustrator the Winnipeg Tribune prior to its untimely demise in 1980.

Linda McIntosh was elected as a school trustee in the Winnipeg region of St James-Assiniboia in 1980, and served until 1989, becoming its first female chair in 1984.

Linda McIntosh was elected to serve as president of the Manitoba Association of School Trustees in the mid-eighties.

Linda McIntosh was herself elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1990, defeating incumbent Liberal Ed Mandrake by 1324 votes in the western Winnipeg riding of Assiniboia.

Linda McIntosh was appointed to the Manitoba Provincial Treasury Board on January 14,1992 where she served for two years.

Linda McIntosh was easily re-elected in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal Allen Green by 1130 votes.

Linda McIntosh felt that her most significant work was the undertaking of a two-year-long Special Needs Study, culminating in recommendations, widely praised, which recommended how to best meet the challenges and opportunities of inclusivism; and how to create the most enabling learning experience for all students, in regular and special needs categories.

Linda McIntosh increased the student representation on the Universities' Boards of Governors and approved the University of Manitoba's Student Union's Pathways to Excellence brief to the provincial government.

Linda McIntosh imposed a number of surcharges for certain university categories in 1995 and 1996, which were regarded by some as particularly severe on foreign students, since foreign students would no longer be given a preferential tuition rate and would have to pay the same fees as Canadian students.

Linda McIntosh won the support of the Monarchists across the province, and the ire of Canadian republicans, when she sent out a memo to School Divisions reminding them that the Act was to be followed.

Linda McIntosh was very narrowly defeated by New Democrat Jim Rondeau in the 1999 provincial election.

Linda McIntosh actually led Rondeau on election night, but fell three votes behind when the institutional and absentee ballots were counted.

In 1999 and 2000, Linda McIntosh was Marketing Director for Winnipeg's Portsmouth Retirement Residence during its construction, development and start up, ensuring that accommodation was appropriate for prospective clients' needs.

Linda McIntosh was on the local Board of Directors for the federal Canadian Alliance Party of Canada Canadian Alliance prior to its merger with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003.

Linda McIntosh was a strong supporter of the "Unite The Right" movement which led to that merger.

Linda McIntosh subsequently was elected to the local Board of Directors for the new Conservative Party of Canada.

Linda McIntosh is the author of three biographies of heroic Canadians.

Linda McIntosh has indicated that the book is a tribute, not just to Hilkka Nygard; but to all Canadian immigrant mothers, to the lands they loved and left behind and to the great country to which they came.

Linda McIntosh is active as a community volunteer in her current locale in northwestern Ontario.

Linda McIntosh has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Mary Berglund Community Health Centre, serving the township of Ignace and surrounding area including Savant Lake; and to the Board of Directors, Conservative Party of Canada, Kenora, Ontario.