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32nd Yukon Legislative Assembly
The 32nd Yukon Legislative Assembly began on October 10, 2006. The Yukon Party Government led by Dennis Fentie Dennis G. Fentie (November 8, 1950 – August 30, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He was the seventh premier of Yukon and leader of the Yukon Party, serving from 2002 to 2011, as well as the MLA for Watson Lake. Before entering politics, Fe ... was sustained holding a small majority of seats. Membership in the 32nd Assembly Standings changes since the 2006 general election Membership changes References External linksYukon Legislature {{Yukon politics Yukon Legislative Assemblies Lists of people from Yukon Yukon politics-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukon Party
The Yukon Party (french: Parti du Yukon) is a conservative political party in Yukon, Canada. It is the successor to the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. Formation With Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative federal government's decreasing popularity, the Yukon Progressive Conservatives decided to sever its relations with the federal Conservatives, and renamed itself the "Yukon Party" in 1991. The party's first leadership convention in June 1991 was won by Chris Young, a 21-year-old former president of the Yukon Progressive Conservatives' youth chapter. However, two Progressive Conservative MLAs, Bea Firth and Alan Nordling, quit the party within days of his victory, and formed the Independent Alliance Party. By August, however, Young resigned as leader on the grounds that he felt the voters of Yukon were not prepared to support a party whose leader was so young and politically inexperienced, and John Ostashek was acclaimed as his successor in Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitehorse Centre
Whitehorse Centre is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon in Canada. It was created in 1992 from an amalgamation of the ridings of Whitehorse North Centre and Whitehorse South Centre and readjusted in 2002 following the dissolution of the neighbouring riding of Riverside. The riding encompasses the downtown core of the City of Whitehorse (including Marwell) between the escarpment and the Yukon River. Whitehorse Centre is home to most of Whitehorse's businesses and government offices. Whitehorse Centre is bordered by the ridings of Riverdale North, Takhini-Kopper King, and Mountainview. The riding is generally considered a New Democrat stronghold. Members of the Legislative Assembly Electoral results 2021 general election 2016 general election , - , NDP , Liz Hanson , align="right", 487 , align="right", 43.8% , align="right", -18.3% , Liberal , Tamara Goeppel , align="right", 432 , alig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Mitchell (Yukon Politician)
Arthur Mitchell is a Canadian politician, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Yukon and the Leader of the Official Opposition from 2006 to 2011. He is a former real estate agent and an assistant to John Ostashek, the Yukon Party Government Leader (Premier) from 1992 to 1996. Mitchell was elected leader in June 2005 in a leadership race against Pat Duncan, the Yukon's first Liberal premier, and remained leader until his defeat in the 2011 Yukon election. Personal life Mitchell is originally from the community of New Rochelle, New York. He is the brother of television journalist Andrea Mitchell who is married to Alan Greenspan. He is son of Cecile and Sydney Mitchell. Mitchell's father was the chief executive officer and partial owner of a furniture manufacturing company in Manhattan and was also the president of Beth El Synagogue in New Rochelle for 40 years. His mother was an administrator at the New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan. Mitchell moved to Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kluane
Kluane is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is named after Kluane National Park, which is within the riding. It is one of the Yukon's eight rural districts. Kluane represents all Yukon communities and residents along the Alaska Highway west of Whitehorse and south to Alaska. This includes the communities of Haines Junction, Burwash Landing, Destruction Bay, Beaver Creek, and Mendenhall, as well as parts of the Ibex and Macpherson-Grizzly valleys. It is situated on the traditional territory of the Kluane First Nation, the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, the White River First Nation, the Selkirk First Nation, and the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation. The district was first created in 1974, when the Yukon Territorial Council was expanded from seven to 12 members as a prelude to the creation of the new legislative assembly. It is one of the oldest electoral districts in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary McRobb
Gary Douglas McRobb is a Canadians, Canadian politician, who represented the rural Yukon electoral district (Canada), electoral district of Kluane in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2011. Political career McRobb entered public life to protect Aishihik Lake from further hydroelectric projects. He was elected as a member of the incoming Yukon New Democratic Party, New Democrat government of Piers McDonald in the 1996 Yukon general election, 1996 Yukon election. Though McRobb was not appointed to Cabinet, he was appointed Cabinet Commissioner for Energy, Mines and Resources in the McDonald administration. He also served as Deputy Speaker of the Yukon Legislative Assembly. McRobb was re-elected as a member of the New Democrats in the 2000 Yukon general election, 2000 and 2002 Yukon general election, 2002 Yukon elections, and served as Opposition House Leader and New Democrat caucus critic for Tourism, Energy, Mines and Resources, Transportation, Information, and Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porter Creek Centre (electoral District)
Porter Creek Centre is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Canada. It was created in 2002 out of the Whitehorse ridings of Porter Creek North and Porter Creek South. It encompasses the Whitehorse subdivision of Whistle Bend and part of the subdivision of Porter Creek. It is bordered by the ridings of Porter Creek South, Porter Creek North, and Riverdale North. Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2021 general election 2016 general election , - , Liberal , Paolo Gallina , align="right", 452 , align="right", 43.3% , align="right", +11.7% , NDP , Pat Berrel , align="right", 213 , align="right", 20.4% , align="right", -9.3% , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= 1044 ! align= 100.0% ! align= 2011 general election , - , Liberal , Kerry Huff , align="right", 245 , align="right", 31.6% , align="right", +0.8% , NDP , Jean-François Des Lauriers , al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Lang (politician)
Archibald Donald Lang (April 3, 1948 – March 11, 2021) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Porter Creek Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011. Political career He was a member of the Yukon Party and is Minister of Highways and Public Works and Minister of Community Services. Lang announced his retirement from the legislature on July 6, 2011. His twin brother Daniel Lang served in the Senate of Canada from 2009 to 2017. Lang died on March 11, 2021, from cancer at the age of 72. Electoral record Yukon general election, 2006 , - , Liberal , David Laxton , align="right", 224 , align="right", 30.8% , align="right", -9.5% , - , NDP , Kate White , align="right", 159 , align="right", 21.9% , align="right", +13.8% , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 727 !align="right", 100.0% !align="right", – Yukon general election, 2002 , - , Liberal , Scott Kent , align="right", 312 , alig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porter Creek North
Porter Creek North is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Canada. It contains part of the Whitehorse subdivision of Porter Creek, as well as the subdivisions of Crestview and Kulan. It is bordered by the Whitehorse ridings of Porter Creek Centre, Porter Creek South, Takhini-Kopper King, and Riverdale North, as well as the rural ridings of Lake Laberge and Kluane. The electoral district was known as Whitehorse Porter Creek East before 1992. The district at various points has been held by Yukon Conservative Senator Dan Lang, former Premier John Ostashek, former Whitehorse City Councillor Doug Graham, and former Yukon Commissioner Geraldine Van Bibber. MLAs Whitehorse Porter Creek East Porter Creek North Election results 2021 general election 2016 general election , - , - ! align=left colspan=3, Total ! align= 989 ! align= 100.0% ! align= – 2011 general election , - , - ! align=left c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Kenyon
Jim Kenyon is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Porter Creek North in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2011. He is a member of the Yukon Party. Kenyon was a candidate for the leadership of the Yukon Party in 2011, following the resignation of Dennis Fentie, but lost to Darrell Pasloski. Yukon Party Leadership Race, 2011 Political career Jim Kenyon, a former veterinary surgeon, first attempted to enter electoral politics in the 2000 Canadian federal election in the riding of Yukon as a member of the newly formed Canadian Alliance Party. Kenyon was unsuccessful in his attempt to unseat incumbent New Democrat Louise Hardy, though Hardy did lose to Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell. 31st Legislative Assembly Kenyon ran again, this time at the territorial level, in the 2002 Yukon election on behalf of the Yukon Party in the Whitehorse riding of Porter Creek North. Though long-held by the Yukon Party, Porter Creek North had been lost to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porter Creek South
Porter Creek South is an electoral district (Canada), electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Yukon Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly of Yukon, Canada. It comprises part of the Whitehorse, Yukon, Whitehorse subdivision of Porter Creek and is the smallest riding in Whitehorse. It is bordered by the ridings of Porter Creek Centre, Porter Creek North, and Takhini-Kopper King. Porter Creek South is also the former seat of Pat Duncan, 6th Premier of Yukon, Premier of the Yukon, who served from 2000 to 2002. It was the only seat won by the Yukon Liberal Party in the 2002 Yukon general election, 2002 territorial election when the Duncan's Liberal government was defeated. It is considered a Liberal safe seat, stronghold. MLAs Election history 2021 general election 2016 general election , - , style="width: 130px" , Yukon Liberal Party, Liberal , Ranj Pillai , align="right", 337 , align="right", 46.6% , align="right", +6.0% , Yukon New Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Inverarity
Don Inverarity is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Porter Creek South in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011. He is a member of the Yukon Liberal Party. Political career Elected in the 2006 Yukon election for Porter Creek South, Inverarity retained the seat for the Liberals following the retirement of former Liberal leader and Yukon Premier Pat Duncan from politics. Duncan, a three term incumbent, had held the seat since 1996. Inverarity served as an Official Opposition critic for Justice, Highways & Public Works, Economic Development, and Workers' Compensation Board portfolios. He was also a member of the Public Accounts Committee and Human Rights Act Review. During his time as MLA, Inverarity pushed successfully for the Yukon Government to update the Yukon Driver's License, due to concerns that the licenses were not considered an acceptable form of identification in other jurisdictions and were prone to forgery. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelly-Nisutlin (electoral District)
Pelly-Nisutlin is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was created in 2002 out of the districts of Faro and Ross River-Southern Lakes. The riding includes the communities of Teslin, Faro, Ross River, Little Salmon, and Johnsons Crossing. It encompasses the traditional territory of the Teslin Tlingit Council and the Ross River Dena Council of the Kaska Dena. Pelly-Nisutlin is bordered by the rural ridings of Mayo-Tatchun, Lake Laberge, Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes, and Watson Lake. Boundary Commission Controversy Yukon electoral boundaries are examined by a commission every ten years to determine whether they should be adjusted. When Pelly-Nisutlin was created, it drew criticism from the Village of Teslin and the Teslin Tlingit Council, which argued that it should not be part of the same riding as Ross River and Faro, but rather Carcross and Tagish. There was concern not only that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |