Christine Boyle

Last updated

The Honourable
Christine Boyle
MLA
Christine Boyle, BC NDP candidate for Vancouver-Little Mountain - 54002746726.jpg
Boyle in 2024
Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation of British Columbia
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 18, 2024

Christine Boyle is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2024 British Columbia general election. She represents the electoral district of Vancouver-Little Mountain as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP). Upon taking office, she was named Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. [1] Boyle has also served as a city councillor in Vancouver since 2018, but has announced she will resign before the end of 2024.

Contents

Personal life

Boyle lives with her partner, writer and activist Seth Klein, and their children in Grandview–Woodlands. [2] [3] [4]

Activism

Boyle is a climate justice activist, United Church minister, [5] and community organizer. She is a founder and director of the Self Care Project, focusing on fostering resilience for activists, [6] and Spirited Social Change. [7] She has been involved in Fossil Free Faith, an organization that encourages faith institutions to divest from fossil fuels. Due to their work, the United Church of Canada divested from fossil fuels in 2015. [8]

In 2015, Boyle traveled to the Vatican to participate in events surrounding Laudato Si . [9] She was also a delegate to the COP21 climate talks on behalf of the United Church of Canada. [10] In 2018, Boyle participated in a day of faith-based protests against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby, BC. [11]

Election campaign

Boyle was motivated to run for office because of her commitment to "tackling the deepening wealth gap [in Vancouver], about ensuring that homes are for housing people rather than profits, and about deepening community engagement to build a better city together". [12] She ran alongside Brandon Yan after winning the OneCity Vancouver candidate nomination in June 2018. [13] Boyle won a seat on Vancouver City Council in the 2018 municipal election with 45,529 votes, [14] making her the first elected city councillor from OneCity Vancouver [15] [16] and one of eight women on the ten-member council. [17] She was re-elected to a second term on Vancouver City Council in the 2022 municipal election on October 15, 2022. [18]

On April 4, 2024, Boyle was nominated to run for the seat of Vancouver-Little Mountain for the New Democratic Party of British Columbia in the 2024 provincial election. [19] She won the seat, beating Conservative candidate John Coupar. [20]

Electoral record

2024 British Columbia general election : Vancouver-Little Mountain
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic Christine Boyle 15,00861.92+11.0
Conservative John Coupar7,44930.73+30.5
Green Wendy Hayko1,7817.35−7.4
Total valid votes–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
New Democratic hold Swing −9.8
Source: Elections BC [21]
2022 Vancouver municipal election : Vancouver City Council
PartyCandidateVotes%Elected
ABC Vancouver Sarah Kirby-Yung (X)72,54542.30Green check.svgY
ABC Vancouver Lisa Dominato (X)70,41541.05Green check.svgY
ABC Vancouver Brian Montague68,61840.01Green check.svgY
ABC Vancouver Mike Klassen 65,58638.24Green check.svgY
ABC Vancouver Peter Meiszner 63,27536.90Green check.svgY
ABC Vancouver Rebecca Bligh (X)62,76536.60Green check.svgY
ABC Vancouver Lenny Zhou62,39336.39Green check.svgY
Green Adriane Carr (X)41,83124.39Green check.svgY
OneCity Christine Boyle (X)38,46522.43Green check.svgY
Green Pete Fry (X)37,27021.73Green check.svgY
2018 Vancouver municipal election : Vancouver City Council
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Green Adriane Carr 69,739Green check.svgY
Green Pete Fry 61,806Green check.svgY
NPA Melissa De Genova53,251Green check.svgY
COPE Jean Swanson 48,865Green check.svgY
NPA Colleen Hardwick 47,747Green check.svgY
Green Michael Wiebe 45,593Green check.svgY
OneCity Christine Boyle45,455Green check.svgY
NPA Lisa Dominato44,689Green check.svgY
NPA Rebecca Bligh 44,053Green check.svgY
NPA Sarah Kirby-Yung43,581Green check.svgY

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rosemary Brown (Canadian politician)</span> Canadian politician (1930–2003)

Rosemary Brown was a Canadian politician. She was the first black woman elected to the provincial government of British Columbia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joe Keithley</span> Musical artist

Joseph Edward "Joey Shithead" Keithley is a Canadian punk musician who is best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the punk band DOA. He was elected a city councillor in Burnaby, BC in the 2018 municipal elections as a member of the Burnaby Green Party. He was re-elected in the October 2022 municipal election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adriane Carr</span> Canadian politician

Adriane Carr is a Canadian academic, activist and green politician. She has served on Vancouver City Council since its 2011 municipal election. She was a founding member of the Green Party of British Columbia and was the party's first leader, then known as "spokesperson", from 1983 to 1985. In 2000, she became the party's leader again. In the 2005 provincial election, she received over 25 percent of the vote in her home riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast. In September 2006, she was appointed by federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May, to be one of her two deputy leaders.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tim Stevenson</span> Canadian politician and minister

Tim Stevenson is a Canadian politician and United Church minister. He served as councillor on the Vancouver City Council from 2002 to 2018, initially as a member of the Coalition of Progressive Electors and from 2005 as a member of Vision Vancouver. He was a founding member of Vision Vancouver.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vancouver-Point Grey</span> Provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver-Point Grey is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was first contested in the general election of 1933. It was created out of parts of Richmond-Point Grey, South Vancouver and Vancouver City. The riding began as a three-member seat, and was reduced to a two-member seat in 1966 when Vancouver-Little Mountain was created. In the redistribution preceding the 1991 election, it was reduced to a one-member riding along with the other older urban ridings, as several new one-member ridings were created.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vancouver-Little Mountain</span> Provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver-Little Mountain is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexa Loo</span> Canadian snowboarder

Alexa Loo is a Canadian athlete, accountant and politician, serving as city councillor for Richmond, British Columbia since 2014. As a snowboarder, she competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Terrana</span> Canadian politician (1937 - present)

Anna Marina Terrana was the elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Vancouver East in British Columbia, Canada, serving as that riding's MP from 1993 to 1997 in the Canadian House of Commons - 35th Parliament. Terrana sat as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vancouver-False Creek</span> Provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver-False Creek is a former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, in use from 2009 to 2024. The riding took in most of Downtown Vancouver and the area around the north shore of False Creek, including Yaletown.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kathy Corrigan</span> Canadian politician

Kathy Corrigan is a Canadian politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 39th and 40th Parliament of British Columbia, from 2009 to 2017. As a member of the BC New Democratic Party, she was elected to represent the riding of Burnaby-Deer Lake in the 2009 provincial election and re-elected in the 2013 election. In both parliaments her NDP formed the official opposition and Corrigan acted as their critic on various issues, including 2010 Winter Olympics, women's issues, public safety, the Solicitor General and advanced education. During both the 2011 and the 2014 NDP leadership elections, Corrigan endorsed John Horgan. At the same time as she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, her husband Derek Corrigan served as mayor of Burnaby.

Gary Collins, known as Gary Farrell-Collins until 2001, is a former Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia, representing Fort Langley-Aldergrove from 1991 to 1996, Vancouver-Little Mountain from 1996 to 2001, and Vancouver-Fairview from 2001 to 2004. A caucus member of the British Columbia Liberal Party, he served in the cabinet of Premier Gordon Campbell as Minister of Finance from 2001 to 2004. He was also the chief executive officer of Vancouver-based Harmony Airways from 2004 to 2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jane Shin</span> Canadian politician

Jane Jae Kyung Shin is a Canadian academic and former politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election. She is currently the Vice-President, Students & Community Development at Vancouver Community College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Arthur Pritchard</span>

William Arthur (Bill) Pritchard was a Canadian Marxist labour activist, organizer, editor, journalist, and politician. A major figure in the One Big Union movement, he also was one of the defendants in the 1920 sedition trial of leaders of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. Pritchard later was elected reeve (mayor) of Burnaby, British Columbia during the Great Depression and played an instrumental role in founding the BC Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lynne Quarmby</span> Canadian scientist, activist, and politician

Lynne Quarmby is a Canadian scientist, activist, and politician. She is a professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. She was a candidate for the Green Party of Canada in Burnaby North—Seymour in the 2015 federal election, and is the Green Party of Canada's Science Policy Critic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trans Mountain pipeline</span> Oil pipeline in southwestern Canada

The Trans Mountain Pipeline System, or simply the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMPL), is a multiple product pipeline system that carries crude and refined products from Edmonton, Alberta, to the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katrina Chen</span> Canadian politician (born 1983)

Katrina Chen is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Burnaby-Lougheed in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2017 to 2024. She was the first Taiwanese-Canadian elected and appointed to the B.C. Cabinet and Executive Council as the Minister of State for Child Care from 2017 to 2022. She was the Chair of the Child Care Working Group and served on many Cabinet committees including the Covid Working Group, Priorities and Accountability Committee and Social Initiatives Committee. She was also the Co-Chair of David Eby's leadership campaign in 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">OneCity Vancouver</span> Political party in Canada

OneCity Vancouver is a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 2014 by independent activists and former members of the left-wing Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE), including David Chudnovsky and Rafael Joseph Aquino; Aquino was OneCity's first candidate to run for public office.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jennifer Whiteside</span> Canadian politician and trade unionist

Jennifer Whiteside is a Canadian politician and trade unionist who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2020 British Columbia general election. She represents the electoral district of New Westminster as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party. She has served in the cabinet of British Columbia since 2020, currently as Minister of Mental Health and Addictions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2024 British Columbia general election</span> Canadian provincial election

The 2024 British Columbia general election was held on October 19, 2024, to elect 93 members (MLAs) of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 43rd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ABC Vancouver</span> Municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

ABC Vancouver, formerly A Better City, is a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is led by incumbent mayor Ken Sim.

References

  1. ↑ "A list of members of B.C. Premier David Eby's new cabinet". Business in Vancouver. November 19, 2024. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Christine Boyle for City Council - A Vancouver to Live and Belong In". christineboyle.ca. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ Grauer, Perrin (May 2, 2018). "East Vancouver social housing and services hub goes to proposal stage". Star Metro Vancouver. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ Tryon, Brett (June 17, 2022). "Their Home Was a Gas Guzzler. Not Anymore". Asparagus Magazine. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Christine Boyle joins CMUC as Minister of Community Life - Canadian Memorial United Church". Canadian Memorial United Church. December 16, 2015. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Self Care Project". Self Care Project. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Spirited Social Change | Change with Heart". Spirited Social Change. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  8. ↑ Johnson, Pat (August 19, 2015). "Keeping the Fossil Free Faith". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  9. ↑ Perkins, Martha (April 21, 2017). "These two young activists are fuelled by faith". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Meet Our COP21 Delegates". The United Church of Canada. November 20, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  11. ↑ Boothby, Lauren (April 20, 2018). "Protesting pastors arrested at Kinder Morgan facility in Burnaby". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Why I'm Running - Christine Boyle for City Council - A Vancouver to Live and Belong In". christineboyle.ca. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  13. ↑ Smith, Charlie (June 16, 2018). "OneCity nominates Christine Boyle and Brandon Yan to run for Vancouver city council". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Election results (unofficial)". City of Vancouver. October 20, 2018. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  15. ↑ Fumano, Dan (October 21, 2018). "Vancouver election: New Mayor Kennedy Stewart prepares to lead mixed council". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Christine Boyle on new voices at Vancouver city hall | Watch News Videos Online". Global News. October 20, 2018. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  17. ↑ Kronbauer, Bob (October 21, 2018). "Vancouver just elected 8 women to City Council". Vancouver Is Awesome. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Official 2022 Vancouver election results". City of Vancouver. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  19. ↑ Pandey-Kanaan, Aastha (April 4, 2024). "Christine Boyle elected as BCNDP candidate for Vancouver-Little Mountain riding". CityNews Vancouver. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  20. ↑ "Christine Boyle elected in Vancouver-Little Mountain". CTV News . October 19, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
  21. ↑ https://globalnews.ca/news/10779118/bc-election-2024-results-vancouver-little-mountain/
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.