Three more candidates confirmed for fall election
Yukon parties continue to refine their rosters with candidates from the Liberals, the NDP and the Green Party confirmed Monday.
Yukon parties continue to refine their rosters with candidates from the Liberals, the NDP and the Green Party confirmed Monday.
Ted Adel, who works for the Yukon Liquor Corporation, will represent the Liberals in Copperbelt North.
He beat out Raj Murugaiyan, owner of a shop in the Whitehorse airport, and Whitehorse businessperson Michael Pemberton in a nomination meeting Monday.
The Yukon Party’s Currie Dixon, who is minister of community services and of the public service commission, currently holds the seat but is not seeking reelection. Pat McInroy of P&M Recycling is running for the Yukon Party in the riding and André Bourcier, director of the Yukon Native Language Centre, is looking to nab the NDP nomination.
In Kluane, activist and filmmaker Sally Wright has been named the NDP candidate.
“The Yukon Party is on the side of fossil fuel companies with short-term plans that threaten our pristine land and water,” said Wright in a statement issued Monday night.
“Yukoners shouldn’t have to choose between the environment and the economy. Sustainable renewable energy infrastructure creates jobs and harnesses our natural resources while allowing us to continue enjoying the Yukon we know and love.”
Wright faces Yukon Party incumbent and environment minister Wade Istchenko, and Liberal candidate Mathieya Alatini, the chief of the Kluane First Nation.
The Green Party saw some action last week as well.
During a meeting at the Whitehorse Library, Kristina Calhoun told the party she was stepping down as leader, citing personal reasons.
Faro teacher Frank de Jong, who ran for the Green Party of Canada in last year’s federal election, will act as interim leader until the party’s annual general meeting in 2017.
De Jong will run for the Yukon Greens in Pelly-Nisutlin. He is the only Green Party candidate so far.
Pelly-Nisutlin is represented by Stacey Hassard, the minister responsible for the Yukon Liquor Corporation, the Yukon Housing Corporation and Economic Development. Hassard is looking to keep his seat in the upcoming election.
Erin Labonte, who works at a car repair shop run by her family, is seeking the NDP nomination and bus and trucking company owner Ernie Jamieson is the Liberal candidate.
By Sidney Cohen Star Reporter
Comments (5)
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north_of_60 on Aug 31, 2016 at 4:54 pm
@PSG is correct. The current leader is an albatross around the NDP neck, especially when other NDP MLAs have much better leadership qualifications and experience.
The NDP is union/socialist. When the Yukon unions were mainly blue collar that's who the NDP represented. The unions are now dominated by white collar government employees and the NDP represents that membership with the anti-any-change policy. Govt employees in the Yukon have secure income for life; they don't want anything to change.
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oh boy..... on Aug 30, 2016 at 8:29 pm
Sure can't wait to kick that NDP to the curb
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Francis Pillman on Aug 30, 2016 at 4:11 pm
Who funds this green party? You've gotten one seat in Parliament in the last 33 years. Time to give it up.
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Willard on Aug 30, 2016 at 4:02 pm
The old way of doing things just hasn't been working.
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ProScience Greenie on Aug 30, 2016 at 2:40 pm
It is official - the Yukon NDP is the anti-everything party. Lois Moorcroft, what happened to the NDP of old that fought hard for good paying resource and related jobs for us regular folks with blue collars? Sally Wright? Really? Sad to see a once great party drift so far away from its roots. Guess that's what happens when an out of touch former head honcho from INAC takes over as party leader instead of having a boots on the ground long time Yukoner at the helm.