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Dan Vandal
Daniel "Dan" Vandal is a politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He represented St. Boniface on the Winnipeg City Council from 1995 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2014, and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Winnipeg in 2004. He briefly served as acting mayor of Winnipeg following Glen Murray's resignation. On October 19, 2015, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Saint Boniface—Saint Vital in the House of Commons of Canada. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
==Early life and career==
Vandal was born in 1960 to a Métis family in Winnipeg, the youngest of eight children. His family identified as French Canadian during his youth, and he only became aware of his Métis heritage in later life.〔David O'Brien, "A councillor rediscovers his Metis roots", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 12 November 2002, A11.〕 He has two children of his own, Jenna and Jerome.
Vandal dropped out of high school, and was a manual labourer for part of his teenage years. He started boxing at age 15, turned professional in 1978, and was the #1 ranked Canadian middleweight in 1983.〔Joe Friesen, "Former boxer lands a blow for fitness", ''Globe and Mail'', 22 February 2005, A7.〕 The following year, he fought Alex Hilton for the Canadian title in front of 18,000 fans at the Montreal Forum.〔"Boxing", ''Globe and Mail'', 11 July 1984, S7; Michael Thibault, "New councillor has a lot of clout, expects to win rounds at city hall", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 29 November 1995, 1; David O'Brien, "A councillor rediscovers his Metis roots", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 12 November 2002, A11.〕 He later credited boxing for turning his life around, and has opposed efforts to ban the sport.〔Hal Sigurdson, "Burns up off canvas for another go-round", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 8 December 1995, C3. He was a guest judge at a professional boxing match in Winnipeg in 1999, where he strongly criticized the rise of a newer, more brutal competition called "ultimate boxing". See Aldo Santin, "'Ultimate boxing' wins round with approval for local bouts", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 1 February 2000, A1.〕
Vandal subsequently became a youth worker at Winnipeg's Mamawiwichiitata Centre, and received a degree in Social Work from the University of Manitoba.〔"Graduate list offers proof course helps inner city", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 24 October 1997, A16; "Dan Vandal", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 2 June 2004, B1.〕 He was vice-president of the Old St. Boniface Residents Association in the 1990s, and campaigned against the proposed construction of a stadium for Sam Katz's Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball team in Whittier Park.〔Nick Martin, "Whittier pushed as Goldeyes' home", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 9 September 1994.〕
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