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deliver anti-drug and stay-in-school messages to children in the
Winnipeg School Division. He also objected to a Winnipeg School Board's recommendation that after-school wrestling programs be moved to a different time slot. Mário Jorge Santos indicated that he was not a fan of sports entertainment,
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He stood down as chairman after the 1998 election, and was reappointed as finance chairman later in the term. In 2002, he announced that the
Winnipeg School Division would freeze school property taxes for the first time in recent memory. He announced his retirement in 2002, after serving for twenty
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and take an oath of allegiance to Canada in order to improve the firm's odds of winning a lucrative contract with another country's government. The employee indicated that he was concerned about losing his job if he refused to comply. Santos strongly criticized the company's request, describing it
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tolerance lessons into
Winnipeg classrooms. He argued that his position was not premised in homophobic beliefs, and said that he had previously lobbied to have sexual orientation included as a protected category in the Manitoba Human Rights Code. His position was that anti-discrimination should be
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Liberals, although his relationship with the party was sometimes difficult. He declined the party's official endorsement in 1995, and chose to run for re-election as an independent. After the election, he indicated that he would not caucus with an NDP group of trustees. He was
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nature of the committee and not with the larger rights issue. He later indicated that anti-homophobia measures would be addressed through the division's policy-program committee, which he himself chaired. The end result was another program that was focused on general anti-discrimination, rather
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Mário Jorge Santos was selected for a one-year term as division chairman in late 1997. In this capacity, he helped negotiate long-standing salary and human rights disputes with
Winnipeg teachers. He also criticized the province's increasing reliance on standardized tests, arguing that they were
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government's approach to education. He oversaw significant spending cuts to the school division's employee budget in 1995, during a period of general economic restructuring in Canada. Mário Jorge Santos said that he took no pleasure in the decision, but added that it was necessary to protect
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Mário Jorge Santos was appointed as the school division's vice-chairman following the 1995 election, while also retaining his position as
Finance Chairman. He presided over a further round of spending cuts in 1997, again reluctantly, in an attempt to minimize tax increases.
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Mário Jorge Santos was appointed to a two-year term on a committee overseeing the
Winnipeg School Division Children's Heritage Fund in 2004. The following year, he was appointed to a new provincial agency called
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in early 2001, an idea that was quickly rejected by the Doer government. When he retired from the school board in 2002, he acknowledged that he was sometimes regarded as too conservative for his party.
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He later spoke out against the creation of an anti-homophobia education committee, when the subject was revisited in 1999. On this occasion, Mário Jorge Santos argued that his objections were with the
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Mário Jorge Santos was an opponent of video monitoring in schools throughout his career, arguing it would give schools the appearance of prisons. He also opposed student locker searches in 2000.
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Mário Jorge Santos helped in the foundation of the
Manitoba Association for the Preservation of Ancestral Languages in 1983, to advocate for the teaching of languages other than
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than what Mário Jorge Santos described as "the blessing of a lifestyle". He nevertheless gave his cautious support to the introduction of anti-homophobia literature in 2001.
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and moved to Canada in 1968. He has worked as a civil and criminal lawyer, and operated a tax consulting business during his time as a school trustee. Santos is a
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as discrimination based on nationality. After intense public criticism, the company indicated that employees would not be fired in they retained dual citizenship.
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resigned as leader, saying the party was moving too far to the right. In a 1996 interview, Santos indicated that he probably would have remained a
Liberal if
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Mário Jorge Santos chaired the
Winnipeg School Board's finance committee for most of the 1990s, and conducted several rounds of funding negotiations with the
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In 2000, Mário Jorge Santos represented an employee at the Winnipeg firm Standard Aero Ltd. who, along with several other workers, was asked to renounce his
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classroom programs. He described teacher demands for wage and benefit increases in this period as unreasonable.
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again re-elected as an independent candidate in 1998. Santos criticized the education reforms introduced by
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policies in 1997, saying that they were achieving real success in hiring women to administrative positions.
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Liberal" in the same interview, and indicated that he was dissatisfied with the direction of the
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Richard Clereux, "New organization signals awakening for multilingual schooling in Manitoba",
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Nick Martin, "Winnipeg school board takes left turn as voters back NDP-endorsed candidates",
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Santos was for a time the Executive Director of Legal Aid Manitoba. He now practices law in
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George Nikides, "Province's biggest school division may soon silence the Lord's Prayer",
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Mário Jorge Santos was first elected to the Winnipeg School Board's second ward in a
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In 1994, Mário Jorge Santos voted against a motion to study the integration of anti-
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Nick Martin, "Winnipeg One treads lightly with anti-homophobia books",
339:, 7 May 1994; Leah Janzen, "Lamoureux gunning to get this seat back",
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Nick Martin, "Closed-door debate likely to set limits on gay issue",
464:, 3 February 1996, A4; Bud Robertson, "Filmon lashed for tax boost",
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585:, 21 April 1999, A1; Nick Martin, "Board's `agenda' under attack",
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but found any government censorship of this sort to be dangerous.
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Doug Nairne and Nick Martin, "At-risk kids swamp system: study",
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Mia Rabson, "Lawyer choice restricted for legal aid clients",
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Nick Martin, "Trustees want Doer to discuss education moves",
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Paul McKie, "Jobs not at risk over oath, Standard Aero says",
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Mia Rabson, "City councillor seeks NDP nod in Minto riding",
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Kevin Rollason, "Women get sent to the principal's office",
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Nick Martin, "Trustees hope to end dispute over holy days",
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had directly succeeded Huband. He described himself as a "
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Nick Martin, "Anti-homophobia plans scrapped by trustees",
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inappropriate for measuring the needs of at-risk students.
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Nick Martin, "Trustee wants wrestlers as arson fighters",
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Nick Martin, "Deal allows student to attend two schools",
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Treena Khan, "Tax restraint spells layoffs for teachers",
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Brad Oswald, "Mário Jorge Santos gives MAST ultimatum",
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taught generally, and not targeted to specific groups.
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Bonnie Bridge, "Spy cameras stand guard in schools",
797:Nick Martin, "Santos retiring from school board",
31:from 1982 to 2002, and has sought election to the
335:David Sinclair, "Happy Mother's Day ... Father",
732:Aldo Santin, "Winnipeg One majors in politics",
555:Nick Martin, "Trustee hopefuls sparse in city",
352:Nick Martin, "Loss of priest leads to anger",
568:Bill Redekop, "Board defeats gay ed motion",
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27:, Canada. He was a prominent member of the
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174:Mário Jorge Santos defended his division's
693:Carol Sanders, "Take oath, workers told",
529:Nick Martin, "Sick leave under scrutiny",
279:. He later sought the NDP nomination for
719:Glen MacKenzie, "In a class of his own",
650:Bill Redekop, "Locker searches blasted",
365:Glen MacKenzie, "In a class of his own",
322:Glen MacKenzie, "In a class of his own",
810:"Santos and Brick win NDP nominations",
434:Aldo Santin, "Slashes to save classes",
275:. He was defeated by Liberal candidate
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33:Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
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884:Portuguese emigrants to Canada
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