Waye Mason | |
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Member of the Halifax Regional Council for Peninsula South - Downtown / Halifax South Downtown | |
In office 2012–2024 | |
Preceded by | Sue Uteck |
Succeeded by | Laura White |
Personal details | |
Born | Dartmouth,Nova Scotia |
Occupation | municipal councillor,strategic planner,entrepreneur |
Waye Mason is a politician,strategic planner,entrepreneur and educator from Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada. He was a member of the Halifax Regional Council from 2012 to 2024 and a candidate for Mayor of Halifax in 2024.
Born and raised in Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, [1] Waye Mason holds an MBA from Saint Mary’s University,a BA from Dalhousie University,and an adult education diploma from Nova Scotia Community College. [2]
His involvement in music started whe he became a campus community radio volunteer at CKDU, [3] the radio station of Dalhousie University. [4] He was also Chair of the Dalhousie Student Union (DSU). [5]
In 1993,he founded the record label and record distributor No Records.
In 2001,he founded the not-for-profit Halifax Pop Explosion Association [6] to operate the Halifax Pop Explosion festival. He was executive director of Halifax Pop Explosion until 2010. [3]
From 2007 to 2012,he was an instructor in Music Business at the Nova Scotia Community College. [2]
He was also a president and board member of Music Nova Scotia, [4] a non-profit organization with a mandate to encourage the growth and promotion of the province's music industry.
Mason entered politics in 2012,when he ran for a seat on the Halifax Regional Council. From 2012 to 2024,he was councillor of District 7,representing the South End of the Halifax Peninsula and part of downtown.
He was first elected at the 2012 Halifax municipal election,unseating incumbent councillor Sue Uteck by 96 votes in District 7,then named Peninsula South - Downtown.
A councillor for 13 years,Uteck tried to reclaim her seat four years later [7] but was soundly defeated in the 2016 Halifax municipal election,when Mason received 61% of the vote to Uteck's 33%.
Mason was deputy-mayor of Halifax for a year,starting November 14,2017. [8]
Before the 2020 election,the district was renamed Halifax South Downtown to "bring greater clarity" while keeping the same boundaries,a move Mason requested with colleagues from council. [9] In 2020,Mason was reelected for a third term in District 7,with 67% of the vote.
Following the decision of mayor Mike Savage not to run for a fourth term,Waye Mason entered the race for Mayor of Halifax on 10 June 2024. [10]
His campaign manager was Mat Whynott,who had run the previous mayoral campaign of Savage. [10]
Mason's campaign focused on the housing crisis,a health focused response to homelessness and improving Halifax Transit service. He proposed setting up "Housing Halifax",an agency to make affordable housing get built faster,a traffic operations centre to reduce congestion,and civilian-led response teams to de-task the police. [11]
Andy Fillmore,a former Member of Parliament,was elected Mayor of Halifax on 19 October 2024. Out of 16 mayoral candidates in the 2024 Halifax municipal election,Waye Mason placed second with 25% of the vote.
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