It is really disheartening. So he just keeps plugging away. It is loaded with a mish-mash of unsolicited gifts: toy cars, milk trucks, a model submarine, a knight in shining armour, several model helicopters and airplanes, plus a train and a Mack truck. Other things accrue, too: there are, by my count, three clocks on Mr. A new political season is drawing near. Kwinter foresees an election, perhaps as early as the spring.
And what about retirement? Not looking to cloud your day but winter is knocking! No need to wait until next weekend to score sweet sales on gadgets, gear.
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A couple of months before his 82nd birthday, the MPP for York Centre became the oldest member of the Ontario Legislature in its history. And even though the election was still a year and a half away, Kwinter was telling everyone that he planned to run and win again — which he did, for the ninth straight time. Although Wilma, his wife of many decades, had died in , Kwinter had a new girlfriend they're still together and was still enjoying being in politics. And it wasn't long after winning in before was telling everyone he intended to run again in Last fall, Kwinter stopped showing up at the legislature and eventually, we learned, his health had taken a marked turn for the worse.
Rumours abounded, and no one seemed to know quite what was wrong. Shingles can be incredibly painful and debilitating. In , the host of The Late Show on CBS, David Letterman, contracted a case so severe, it knocked him off the air for a month, and he was only 55 years old at the time.
Caused by the same virus that brings on chickenpox, it can show up as a rash anywhere on the body, but it most often appears on the torso. He needs a wheelchair to get around and has a caregiver constantly at his side. That honour goes to late Liberal leader and short-lived premier Harry Nixon, who served for 42 years until his death in Among his fans is Premier Dalton McGuinty.
He served over the years as minister of consumer and commercial relations, financial institutions, industry, trade and technology and community safety and correctional services and as solicitor general.
Prior to being convinced by Peterson to run in — a contest he won handily and has ever since — Kwinter had not sought public office. Toronto voters were no strangers to the Kwinter name. Kwinter Gourmet Foods Inc. However, Kwinter did not go into family business. Prior to public life, Kwinter operated a commercial real estate firm, was vice-president of the Ontario College of Art, editorial director of a publishing firm and an industrial designer.
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