City of Dawson Councillor Jay Farr has announced that he’s running for the Yukon NDP’s Klondike nomination. The high-profile announcement comes as the Yukon NDP call for a new chapter in Dawson City’s mining history by updating Yukon’s outdated mining laws which allow the application to the Surface Rights Board to move an entire Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in neighbourhood off their own land.

The Yukon NDP continued to gain momentum by nominating longtime Whitehorse resident André Bourcier as their candidate in Copperbelt North at a members' meeting last night. Bourcier is the Director of the Yukon Native Language Centre at Yukon Colleges Ayamdigut Campus in Whitehorse and the former chair of the Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon.

Standing in front of École Émilie-Tremblay, André Bourcier threw his hat in the ring today to represent the Yukon NDP in Copperbelt North during the next territorial election. Bourcier, Director of the Yukon Native Language Centre and longtime Whitehorse resident, says that Yukoners have told him that they're tired after 14 years of Yukon Party mismanagement and that they are looking for an alternative.

Yukon NDP Leader Liz Hanson rallied a rousing crowd of New Democrats as she was nominated this evening to represent the party in Whitehorse Centre – a riding she has represented since December 2010. Speaking energetically about Yukon’s opportunities to prosper, Hanson laid the broad framework for the values that she wants to bring to government as Yukon’s premier.

Tradesman and Government of Yukon security worker Patrick Winstanley announced today that he wants to run for the Yukon NDP in Lake Laberge in the upcoming territorial election. Winstanley is seeking the Yukon NDP nomination to represent Lake Laberge residents with a fresh, positive voice.

The Yukon NDP’s Riverdale North campaign took on steam as its members elected accomplished lawyer Rod Snow as their candidate this evening. Snow will carry the NDP banner in hopes that he can close the 70-vote gap that saw the party finish a close second in the riding during the last territorial election.

Surrounded by supporters, friends and family, lawyer and community advocate Shaunagh Stikeman launched her bid for the Yukon NDP nomination in Darrell Pasloski’s Mountainview riding. For Stikeman, it’s time to move on from a closed, tired and divisive style of leadership that isn’t getting results for Yukon families.

Former Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation executive director Skeeter Wright, announced today that he is seeking the party’s nomination in the riding of Mountainview ahead of this year’s territorial election. Wright is seeking the Yukon NDP Mountainview nomination so he can directly offer an alternative to Premier Darrell Pasloski through respect for First Nations, listening to Yukoners and the local economy.