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Elections at CHF Canadas 2008 annual meeting
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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)