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Paul Angelo Winn is a Canadian human rights activist, and a former lawyer.

He served as a director and interim Chief of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, a Canadian crown corporation with a goal of building a national framework for the fight against racism in Canadian society.[1] Mr Winn is also past president of the Black Historical and Cultural Society of British Columbia.

In the 1980s, Mr. Winn wrote and hosted a weekly CBC Television program entitled The Canadians, which surveyed the multicultural communities of Canadian society.[2] He was the first visible minority host of a national television program in Canada.[_citation needed_]

Mr. Winn was active in the Anti-discrimination directorate of the Canadian government in the 1980s and 1990s, before pursuing a law degree at the University of British Columbia. In 2000, Mr. Winn was selected by then Heritage Minister Sheila Copps to the board of directors of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.[3]

He resigned from his membership with the Law Society of British Columbia in 2004 over trust account violations. [4][5]

• Canadian Race Relations Foundation
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

1. ^ Canadian Race Relations Foundation Act ( 1991, c. 8 )
2. ^ Canadian Race Relations Foundation Online Archived 2006-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ Press release, Government of Canada, January 20, 2000
4. ^ Discipline Digest
5. ^ Paragraph 95 of BC Supreme Court Decision The Law Society of British Columbia v. Targosz, 2010 BCSC 969

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