to teaching at the University of Manitoba. He taught courses in constitutional law, criminal law, labour law, evidence, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He served as a University Dean between 1989 and 1994. He wrote several works, including a number on the privacy rights of Canadians. In 1993, he openly questioned the attempts of Bob Rae's New Democratic Party government in Ontario to restrict tenure to professors deemed to hold socially unacceptable views. He retired from teaching in 2009. In 2010, it was revealed that Penner's name was on a secret list of Communist sympathizers kept during the Cold War; these persons were to be watched by the RCMP and could have been detained at internment camps in the event of a national security crisis. In 2007, Penner published A Glowing Dream: A Memoir (Winnipeg: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, 2007). In 2011, he co-wrote They Shoot Doctors Don't They: A Memoir with Jack Fainman. Honours In 2000, he was named to the Order of Canada. In 2014, he was made a member of the Order of Manitoba. Footnotes 1924 births 2018 deaths Canadian people of German descent Canadian military personnel of World War II Canadian socialists Labor-Progressive Party candidates in the 1953 Canadian federal election Members of the Executive Council of Manitoba Members of the Order of Canada Members of the Order of Manitoba New Democratic Party of Manitoba MLAs Politicians from Winnipeg Canadian Mennonites