Kevin Potvin
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Kevin Potvin (b. 1962) is a Canadian writer and publisher.
Potvin was born in Port Arthur, Ontario. He received an Honours B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1986.
He founded Magpie Magazine Gallery on Vancouver's Commercial Drive in 1994 and launched The Republic of East Vancouver newspaper in 2000. He has written a political opinion column in the Vancouver Courier since 1995. In the late 1990s, he twice won the Geist Magazine Distance Writing Contest. .[1][citation needed]
The Globe and Mail, Canada's oldest national newspaper, did an article (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060506.WIKI06/TPStory/)May 6, 2006) on the debate over Wikipedia's reliablility and used Kevin Potvin's entry on himself as an example of someone posting his own entry.
[edit] Politics
In 2005 Potvin ran for councillor in the Vancouver municipal election. He received 10,806 votes, placing 22nd in the polls (with the first ten being elected to council), gaining the most votes for an independent.
In fall 2006, he was elected President of the Grandview Woodlands Area Council.
