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'''Sylvia Stark''' is a [[Canada|Canadian]] businesswoman who was President and CEO of the Miss Canada International 1996 and Miss Teen Canada International 1998 competitions.<ref name=CTV>{{Cite news
 |url= http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/CTVNewsAt11/20030802/miss_canada_lawsuit_030801/
 |title=Former beauty queens sue Miss Canada Int'l
 |work= CTV News|date= August 2, 2003
 |accessdate=22 December 2010
}}</ref> During her time with the organization, three winners of Miss Canada International pageant were stripped of their crowns by Stark, for reasons that allegedly included brawling and breach of contract.<ref name=os>{{Cite web
 |url= http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/02/04/20325.html
 |title=Pageant boss misses out
 |work= Ottawa Sun|date= February 4, 2003|author=Kathleen Harris
 |accessdate=22 December 2010
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news
 |url= http://news.pageantsearch.net/printer_26.shtml
 |title=Refusing move may have cost Bennett her title
 |work=Pageant News|date=23 January 2003|author= Daniel Leblanc
 |accessdate=22 December 2010
}}</ref> Stark subsequently founded the [[Miss Teen Canada International]] pageants; her pageant. Her organization has been praised by the competitors.largely reproached within the Canadian pageant community. <ref name=guardian>{{Cite news
 |url= http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Hockey/2007-02-03/article-1299492/Pageant-Plight/1
 |title=Pageant Plight
 |work= The Guardian (PEI)|date= 3 February 2007|author=Jim Day
 |accessdate=22 December 2010
}}</ref><ref name= ab/>
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In 2003 Stark started a campaign to save a woman in Nigeria who had been sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock after being raped. The petition which she organised result in the life of the woman being spared.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}Many former contestants have criticized the organization and Sylvia Stark, and some titleholders have disassociated themselves from the organization.<ref name="pageant plight">[http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Hockey/2007-02-03/article-1299492/Pageant-Plight/1]</ref>

Inspired by the devastation of the [[2004 Tsunami]], Stark founded the ''Teddy Bears of Hope'' campaign which sends new and used teddy bears to children in areas affected by war and turmoil.<ref name=myk>{{Cite news
 |url= http://www.mykawartha.com/article/8660
 |title=Teddy Bears bring hope to children in need
 |work=mykawartha.com
 |accessdate=22 December 2010|date=17 November 2007|author=Debbie Bruce
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