Kelly Moar was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba

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 on April 14, 2005.

Judge Moar received his call to the bar in 1997. As a Crown attorney, he was involved in prosecuting serious cases and handling inquest

Inquest

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s, bail

Bail

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 hearings and various criminal law

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 proceedings. Before he became a lawyer, he worked with Winnipeg Child and Family Services as a social worker and with the Native Alcoholism

Alcoholism

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 Council of Manitoba as a chemical dependency counsellor

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. He has also been active in the Métis

Métis people (Canada)

The Métis are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a distinct aboriginal group, with...

community over the years, with a special interest in sports.