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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)