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Stained glass at the Vuntut Gwitchin Government building front desk in Old Crow photographed on Feb. 19. (Haley Ritchie/Yukon News) Stained glass at the Vuntut Gwitchin Government building front desk in Old Crow photographed on Feb. 19. (Haley Ritchie/Yukon News)

Vuntut Gwitchin government calls by-election after councillor calls for change with resignation

Marilyn Charlie is the seventh councillor to resign since the last election in 2018

 

Two Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation councillors, Esau Schafer and Katriel Villacorta, have resigned, triggering a byelection. (Yukon News file)

UPDATE: VGFN announces byelection date

Two Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation councillors have resigned, triggering a byelection. In…

 

Wikimedia Commons Chris Irvin, who’s been a Watson Lake councillor for five years and has been serving most recently as deputy mayor, was elected as the southern Yukon town’s mayor in a byelection Oct. 8.

Chris Irvin reflects on new role as Watson Lake’s mayor

Councillor was pleased with support in his bid to run as mayor

 

Watson Lake councillor becomes town’s mayor

Chris Irvin takes 43 per cent of the vote in byelection

Nominations closed in Watson Lake byelection

Four candidates are running for mayor

Watson Lake to hold mayoral byelection

Residents of Watson Lake will elect a new mayor on Oct. 8.…