Anna Thistle is a

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politician. She represented the

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Grand Falls-Windsor-Buchans Grand Falls-Windsor—Buchans is a Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district for the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Prior ...

in the

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from 1996 to 2007. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland & Labrador. Thistle worked for the

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at various branches in Newfoundland and Labrador. Then, in 1977, she became the first manager for the Newfoundland and Labrador Credit Union branch in

Grand Falls-Windsor Grand Falls-Windsor is a town located in the central region of the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with a population of 13,853 at the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census. The town i ...

, serving in that position until her election to the provincial assembly in 1996. She was elected to the first council for the amalgamated town of Grand Falls-Windsor in 1990 and was reelected in 1993. Thistle took responsibility for developing and implementing the town and region's Strategic Economic Development Plan. In 1998, she was named President of Treasury Board. In 2001, she was named Minister of Labour and, in 2003, Minister of Youth Services and Post-Secondary Education. Thistle did not stand for re-election in the 2007 general election.

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