Toronto Star

Joyce Fairbairn resigns Senate seat

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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.

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