Christine Harapiak, from Dauphin, Manitoba, was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba on April 13, 2005. Judge Harapiak graduated from the Faculty of Law at the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Family Law Branch and Justice Canada's Aboriginal Law Services. From 2003 until her appointment to the bench, she practiced both traditional litigation and

alternative dispute resolution Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), or external dispute resolution (EDR), typically denotes a wide range of dispute resolution processes and techniques that parties can use to settle disputes with the help of a third party. They are used for ...

with the federal government. Judge Harapiak was originally from The Pas, Manitoba and is the daughter of

Harry Harapiak Harry Myrislaw Harapiak (September 17, 1938 - November 14, 2000) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1981 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party govern ...

, NDP MLA for The Pas Constituency from 1981 - 1990 and cabinet minister in the Howard Pawley Administration.

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Government of Manitoba news release
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