Janet Keeping was the Leader of the

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, serving in this capacity from September 2012 to November 2017. Keeping was born in Montreal and has lived in Calgary since 1973. She attended the

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, earning a B.S. in architecture in 1971, and then studied environmental design. Keeping moved from Boston to Calgary in 1973 and earned a master's degree in philosophy prior to being admitted to the

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at the

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, where she graduated with a first

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in 1981. Keeping co-founded the ''Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre'' where she was its first executive director and was, from 1984 to 2006, a Research Fellow at the ''Canadian Institute of Resources Law'' (CIRL), housed at The Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. While at CIRL Janet Keeping was Director of

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Programs and led several studies funded by the

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in which she visited Russia and collaborated with Russian lawyers and scholars. Additionally, she was President of the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership at the Centre for Constitutional Studies from 2006 to 2012. Janet Keeping has lectured at The Faculty of Law, University of Calgary and was named honorary professor at the Faculty of Law,

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during her time there as CIRL's Director of Russian Programs. In recognition of her legal work and scholarship, Keeping was awarded the Medal of Service by the Academic Council of

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. In September 2015, she was a by-election candidate in the district of

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, but finished sixth with 3% of the vote. Keeping was endorsed as Leader of the Green Party of Alberta by Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party of Canada. Janet Keeping lives in Calgary's Hillhurst community where she raised three children with her husband.

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