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Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes
Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes is an electoral district which returns a member (known as an MLA) to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada. It is one of the Yukon's eight rural ridings. The district was first contested in the 2011 election. It was created by merging most of the former districts of Mount Lorne and Southern Lakes. The riding includes the Yukon communities of Carcross, Tagish, Marsh Lake, and Mount Lorne as well part of the traditional territory of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation, the Teslin Tlingit Council, and the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. In accordance with thYukon Electoral District Boundaries Act (2024) this riding will split into Marsh Lake-Mount Lorne-Golden Horn and Southern Lakes at the 2025 Yukon general election. Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2021 2016 , - , Liberal , John Streicker , align="right", 451 , align="right", 38.5% , align="right", +27.9% , - , NDP , Kevin Barr , align="right", 437 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carcross, Yukon
Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, () is an unincorporated community in Yukon, Canada, on Bennett Lake and Nares Lake. It is home to the Carcross/Tagish First Nation. It is south-southeast by the Alaska Highway and the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse. The south end of the Tagish Road is in Carcross. Carcross is also on the White Pass and Yukon Route railway. Carcross is mainly known for its world class mountain biking on the near-by Montana Mountain, and for the nearby Carcross Desert, often referred to as the "world's smallest desert." History Caribou Crossing was a fishing and hunting camp for Inland Tlingit and Tagish people. 4,500-year-old artifacts from First Nations people living in the area have been found in the region. Originally known as ''Naataase Heen'' (Tagish for ‘water running through the narrows’), Caribou Crossing was named after the migration of huge numbers of caribou across the natural land bridge between Lake Bennett and Nares Lake. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Lorne, Yukon
Mount Lorne is a hamlet in Canada's Yukon. The hamlet is considered a local advisory area with an advisory council providing local government. Mount Lorne is located just south of Whitehorse, comprising rural residential areas along the South Klondike Highway, the Annie Lake Road and connecting sideroads. It is part of the Whitehorse Census Agglomeration. Eighty-seven per cent of the population is non-aboriginal. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; ), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in ..., Mt. Lorne had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Public Services The Mount Lorne community is served by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Yukon Territorial Electoral Districts
Yukon territorial electoral districts are currently single member ridings that each elect one member to the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Current and proposed districts These districts were used for the 2021 Yukon general election and/or will be used for the 2025 Yukon general election. Defunct districts * Bonanza (electoral district) * Campbell (electoral district) * Carmacks-Kluane * Copperbelt (electoral district) * Dawson (electoral district) * Faro (electoral district) * Hootalinqua (electoral district) * Mayo (electoral district) * McIntyre-Takhini * Mount Lorne (electoral district) * North Dawson (electoral district) * Ogilvie (electoral district) * Pelly River (electoral district) * Riverside (electoral district) * Ross River-Southern Lakes * South Dawson (electoral district) * Southern Lakes (electoral district) * Tatchun (electoral district) * Whitehorse (electoral district) * Whitehorse East * Whitehorse North * Whitehorse North Centre * Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Barr
Kevin Barr is a Canadian politician, who served in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2016. He represented the electoral district of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes as a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party caucus. First elected in the 2011 election, he was defeated in the 2016 election by John Streicker of the Yukon Liberal Party. Political career Barr first entered politics when he ran unsuccessfully for the New Democrats in the rural Yukon seat of Southern Lakes against incumbent Yukon Party MLA Patrick Rouble in the 2006 Yukon election He tried again - this time in 2011 - for the Yukon seat in the House of Commons under the New Democrat banner against Liberal incumbent Larry Bagnell in the 2011 federal election. Barr finished in fourth place, trailing Bagnell, Conservative Ryan Leef (who narrowly defeated Bagnell), and Green candidate John Streicker. Barr sought office again later that year for the Yukon New Democratic Party in the 2011 Yukon territorial ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Streicker
John Streicker is a Canadian artist and politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in the 2016 Yukon general election. He represents the electoral district of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes as a member of the Yukon Liberal Party. Streicker is a professional engineer, and lectures at Yukon University. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a master's degree in engineering from the University of New Brunswick. He lives in Marsh Lake, Yukon. Political career Prior to his election to the Yukon legislature, Streicker served on Whitehorse City Council from 2012 to 2015. He was formerly president of the Green Party of Canada, for whom he was a candidate in the federal electoral district of Yukon in the 2008 federal election and the 2011 election. He was elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly as the Liberal candidate for the rural riding of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes on November 7, 2016, as part of a majority governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Yukon General Election
The 2016 general election in Yukon, Canada, took place on November 7, 2016, to return members to the 34th Legislature of Yukon, 34th Yukon legislative assembly. The election was fought over issues relating to the economy, the environment, First Nations reconciliation, fracking, and the merits of a territorial carbon tax. Sandy Silver's Yukon Liberal Party, Liberal Party won an upset victory over the incumbent Yukon Party government led by Darrell Pasloski, who lost his own seat in the riding of Mountainview (electoral district), Mountainview. Pre-writ period * August 17, 2012: Darius Elias resigns as interim Liberal leader and sits as an independent. * July 8, 2013: Darius Elias crosses the floor to the Yukon Party. * March 1, 2014: Sandy Silver agrees to lead the Liberal Party. * May 10, 2016: David Laxton stepped down as Speaker and as a member of the Yukon Party caucus to sit as an Independent MLA for personal reasons. It would later come out that the resignation was due to an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukon New Democratic Party
The Yukon New Democratic Party (YNDP; ) is a social democratic political party in the Yukon, Canada. It is the territorial section of the federal New Democratic Party. The Yukon NDP first formed the government of the territory under the leadership of Tony Penikett from 1985 to 1992, and under the leadership of Piers McDonald from 1996 to 2000. The party's current leader is Kate White. The NDP sat as official opposition to the current Yukon Party government in the Yukon Legislative Assembly until May 2006. In the 2006 Yukon election later that year, the three incumbent New Democrat Members of the Legislative Assembly were reelected, but the party failed to win any additional seats and remained in third place behind the five members of the Yukon Liberal Party and the ten member Yukon Party majority government. In January 2009, the NDP were reduced to two seats: Todd Hardy (Whitehorse Centre) and Steve Cardiff (Mount Lorne), after the Party's third member, John Edzerza, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukon Liberal Party
The Yukon Liberal Party () is a political party in the territory of Yukon, Canada. The party is not organizationally linked to the federal Liberal Party of Canada in any official manner. History After twenty years as a minor party, the Yukon Liberal Party won the 2000 general election and formed a government under Premier Pat Duncan. The government, however, was reduced to minority government status. Duncan called a snap election for November 2002 in the hope of regaining her government's majority. The party was almost completely wiped out, however, by the Yukon Party. Duncan won the Liberals' sole seat in the Yukon Party's landslide. The Liberal Party remained in opposition until the 2016 general election where the party went from third place in the legislature to majority government with its leader, Sandy Silver, becoming Premier. Electoral performance Legislative Assembly Leaders * Iain MacKay 1978–1981 * Ron Veale 1981–1984 * Roger Coles 1984–1986 * Jim McLachlan 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukon Party
The Yukon Party, formerly the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in Yukon, Canada. History The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party was founded in April 1978. Long time Yukon legislator Hilda Watson was elected as the party's first leader defeating Yukon MP Erik Nielsen by one vote. Watson had been a member of the territorial Legislative Council since 1970, and became the first woman in Canadian history to lead a political party into a general election. However, she was unable to win a seat in the 1978 election, and consequently resigned. Chris Pearson then became the leader of the party and was able to get a position in the government. The Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the 1985 election by the Yukon New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Tony Penikett. With the increasing unpopularity of the Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative in the federal government, the Yukon Progressive Conservatives decided to sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Substack
Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription-based content, including newsletters, podcasts, and video. It allows writers to send digital content directly to subscribers. Founded in 2017, Substack is headquartered in San Francisco. History Substack was founded in 2017 by Chris Best, the co-founder of Kik Messenger; Jairaj Sethi, a head of platform and principal developer at Kik Messenger; and Hamish McKenzie, a former PandoDaily tech reporter. Best and McKenzie describe Ben Thompson's '' Stratechery,'' a subscription-based tech and media newsletter, as a major inspiration for their platform. Best acts as CEO of the company. In 2019, Substack added support for podcasts and discussion threads among newsletter subscribers. By November 2021, the platform said it had more than 500,000 paying subscribers, representing over one million subscriptions. Substack announced in January 2022 that i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Yukon General Election
The 2021 Yukon general election was held on April 12, 2021, to return members of the 35th Legislature of Yukon, 35th Yukon Legislative Assembly. The election resulted in a hung parliament where the incumbent governing Yukon Liberal Party and the opposition Yukon Party won 8 seats each, while the Yukon New Democratic Party held the remaining 3. As the incumbent party given the first opportunity to form government, a Liberal minority government was sworn in on April 23, 2021. The Liberals and NDP announced the establishment of a formal confidence and supply agreement on April 28, 2021. During the 2016 Yukon general election, 2016 election, the Liberals included a commitment in their platform to introduce fixed election dates in the territory. In October 2020, the government introduced legislation to amend the ''Elections Act'' and create fixed election dates. The legislation passed in December 2020, and took effect after the 2021 election. Voter turnout dropped almost twelve percen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Yukon General Election
The 2025 Yukon general election will be held on or before November 3, 2025, to elect members to the 36th Yukon Legislative Assembly. Under amendments to the territorial Elections Act passed in 2020, the first fixed election date following the 2021 Yukon general election is set as November 3, 2025. All subsequent elections will take place on the first Monday in November of the fourth calendar year following the previous election. The legislative assembly may be dissolved earlier by order of the Commissioner of Yukon due to a motion of no confidence in the current minority government or on the advice of the premier. On September 9, 2022, Sandy Silver announced his intention to resign as premier and party leader, staying on until the party elects a successor. He was succeeded by Ranj Pillai in 2023. On May 7, 2025, Pillai announced his decision to not seek re-election and resign as party leader. Background Following the final report from the citizen's assembly on electoral refo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
