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Anne Cools (Anne Clare Cools) was born on 12 August, 1943 in Barbados, British West Indies, is a Canadian senator (born 1943). Discover Anne Cools's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 12 August 1943
Birthday 12 August
Birthplace Barbados, British West Indies
Nationality Canada

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1943

Anne Clare Cools (born August 12, 1943) is a Canadian retired senator and the longest serving member of the Senate of Canada.

As a social worker, Cools was a pioneer in the protection of women from domestic violence, running one of the first domestic violence shelters in Canada.

Cools was born and raised in Barbados, as the daughter of pharmacist Lucius Unique Cools and homemaker Rosita Gordon Miller Cools.

Both her grandfather and an uncle were politically active on the island.

When she was four years old, two of her siblings died.

In Barbados, Cools attended Queen's College Girls School.

1957

In 1957, when she was 13 years old, her family immigrated to Canada, where she studied at Thomas D'Arcy McGee High School in Montreal.

Cools received a B.A. degree in social sciences, sociology and psychology from McGill University.

Cools is married to business consultant Rolf Calhoun.

Her personal interests include classical music, playing the piano, reading, gardening and dogs.

1969

In February 1969, Cools participated in a 13 day long civil disobedience sit-in at Sir George Williams University (later Concordia University), where over 400 students occupied the computer center to protest the school's inadequate handling of complaints of racism against a professor.

When the riot-police stormed the building, some floors were set on fire, computers were destroyed and computer cards and paper rained down from the 9th floor onto the street below, where there was a counter-demonstration chanting "let the niggers burn".

1974

In 1974, Cools moved to Toronto where she founded and served as the executive director for Women in Transition Inc., one of the first shelters for domestic violence victims in Canada.

1978

She lost the Liberal nomination in a highly contested race against John Evans for the 1978 by-election in Rosedale.

1979

She ran again in 1979, and won the nomination but was defeated in both the 1979 and 1980 elections by Progressive Conservative candidate David Crombie.

1980

From 1980 to 1984, Cools served on the National Parole Board of Canada, which is the parole board for federal prisoners.

She twice sought election to the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada.

1984

In 1984, Cools was appointed to the Senate of Canada by governor general Edward Schreyer, on the recommendation of prime minister Pierre Trudeau, becoming the first black person in the Canadian senate.

She had designated herself as representing the Senate division of Toronto-Centre-York.

Cools became increasingly critical of the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, and of same-sex marriage.

1987

With a high demand for its services, Cools obtained funding for and opened a second shelter in 1987.

She co-organized Canada's first domestic violence conference, Couples in Conflict.

Cools has presented evidence that men and women are equally capable of domestic violence and aggression, which is not a gendered characteristic, but a human pathology of intimacy.

1990

In the 1990s, Cools was instrumental in the creation of and served on the Senate/House Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access, which in December 1998 issued its report, For the Sake of the Children.

A principal recommendation of this report was that following a relationship breakdown, shared parenting should be presumed to be in the best interests of the child.

She was candid in her criticism of the Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien when proposed legislation to be introduced in the House of Commons was shelved after intense lobbying by women's groups.

While a strong advocate for women and domestic violence victims, she has also criticized certain aspects of the feminist movement, e.g. stating that "this feminism that has grown up suddenly in the last few years, where all virtue and goodness are stacked up on the side of women, and all evil and violence is stacked up on the side of men—well, human nature doesn't work that way."

1997

While Cools was nowhere near the 9th floor, she was one of 97 students arrested, and unlike most of them, Cools refused to plead guilty to be set free, instead, she served two months in jail.

About the affair, she has said "it took me a long time to recover... it shocked me to my core".

Several years later she was pardoned.

As a social worker, Cools was one of the pioneers in the protection of women from domestic abuse.

2004

On June 9, 2004, she announced that she was crossing the floor to join the Conservative Party of Canada.

2006

In the fall of 2006, Cools was barred from her committee duties for the Conservative Party, after questioning a new government accountability bill.

2007

In 2007, Cools was ousted from the Conservative party group after accusing two fellow senators of having grabbed and assaulted her.

She also mentioned that she had witnessed a senator hitting a child.

She sat as a non-affiliated Senator from 2007 until 2017 when she joined the Independent Senators Group.

2011

From the retirement of Lowell Murray on September 26, 2011, until her own retirement on August 12, 2018, Cools was the longest-serving member of the Senate.

She is the first female black Senator in North America.

2016

In January 2016, in a Canadaland audio podcast interview with Desmond Cole, Cools supported and cited the work of the English domestic violence pioneer and expert Erin Pizzey, when she claimed that women are equally violent as men in domestic violence conflicts.

Cools is a strong advocate for children's rights, that they after divorce should have continuing relationships with both mothers and fathers, and the importance of fathers for the children's development.