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Elections at CHF Canada’s 2008 annual meeting

CHF Canada seeks candidates every year to run for the Board and Ontario Council. CHF Canada has a 16-person Board of Directors with one director from each province, one representing the Aboriginal community, and five elected at large. Directors serve two-year terms and elections are held each year for half the Board. Some regions have chosen to hold regional director election in the region; others are conducted at the annual meeting.

The following were elected this year:

At-Large
• Wes Hosler (Lore Krill, BC)
• Adan Jemmott (Bleecker Street,ON)


Regional
Aboriginal community
• Dorothy Eisen

British Columbia/Yukon
• Yaana Dancer (Sitka, BC)

Manitoba
• Linda Ferguson (Village Canadien, MB)*

Ontario
• Patrick Newman (Cardiff Co-op, ON)

Quebec/Nunavut
• Yves Delisle (FECHAM, QC)

New Brunswick
• Ken Elliott (Eastwood Co-op, NB) *

Newsfoundland
• David Boyde (CHANAL, NL) *

NOTE:
* Co-ops in Manitoba, New Brunswick and Newfoundland/Labrador have chosen to elect their regional directors at meetings held in their regions.
** The Aboriginal director is elected before CHF Canada's annual meeting by member co-ops that are eligible to vote for the Aboriginal director.

Finance and Audit Committee (one position)
• Rene Daoust (FECHAM, QC )

Ontario Council
Ontario members elected members to serve on the Ontario Council:

At-large
• Brian Burch (Don Area Co-op, Toronto)
• Amanda Yetman (M&P Property Management, Mississauga)
• Deana Sheriff (Elmvale Co-op, Otawa)

Representing Northern Ontario (ONE position)
• Barbara Millsap (Raiffeisen Co-op, Sudbury)

Representing staff organizations in Ontario (ONE position)
• Fran Power (Co-operative Staff Association of Central Ontario, ON)