Prof. Popsicle wants Tory nod in city riding
Targets retiring MP's seat
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Professor Popsicle can tell you how to survive in a car submerged in frigid water — but can the physiology expert who studies cold-weather survival get Winnipeg South Tories to warm up to him?
And after that, the voters of Winnipeg South?
Prof. Gordon Giesbrecht announced Friday he is seeking the federal Tory nomination to succeed retiring MP Rod Bruinooge.
Businessman Jarret Hannah is also running. No date for the nomination meeting has been set.
“I’ve often considered running for public office,” Giesbrecht said.
He said the timing is right.
His three-year commitment as associate dean in the faculty of kinesiology and recreation management at the University of Manitoba is ending, and the university’s new Active Living Centre has opened.
Giesbrecht has been a professor at the U of M since 1991, except for three years as president of Horizon College and Seminary in Saskatoon.
He has conducted extensive research into hypothermia and winter and cold-water-submersion survival, which has led to his becoming an international expert and adviser to the military and wilderness groups, while developing his public persona of Professor Popsicle on TV.
“I’m not going to shy away from it. (Voters) may know me only as Professor Popsicle,” Giesbrecht said.
But, he said with a laugh, “I’m not going to be doing any cold stunts on the campaign.”
Giesbrecht laid out his list of accomplishments, including chairing a settlement committee for refugees from Kosovo, participating in a mission project in Tanzania, Brazil, Kenya and Zambia, co-authoring medical guidelines for frostbite and hypothermia for the State of Alaska and the Wilderness Medical Society, and creating new international “sinking vehicle” emergency dispatch protocols for 911 operators.
He is also the board chairman of Providence University College and Seminary in Otterburne.
nick.martin@freepress.mb.ca