Joyce Fairbairn resigns Senate seat
Liberal Sen. Joyce Fairbairn, who has Alzheimer’s disease, has resigned her seat in the upper chamber. The 73-year-old former journalist, who was the government leader in the Senate from 1993 to 1997, was the focus of controversy earlier this year when it was learned she had continued to vote in the Senate for months despite being declared legally incompetent last February due to her degenerating health. She has been on an extended leave since the summer.
Fairbairn was appointed to the Senate in 1984 by Pierre Trudeau.