字号·· | 护眼
加拿大广播公司

温尼伯举行选举寻求变革,现任市议员纷纷落马Incumbent councillors sent packing across Winnipeg as city votes for change

点「原文对照」整页切到原文,或双击某段只看那段的原文。

凯利·里巴克在温尼伯市议会选举中击败了圣詹姆斯选区现任议员肖恩·多布森。(迈克尔·法齐奥/加拿大广播公司)Kelly Ryback has ousted St. James incumbent Shawn Dobson in the Winnipeg city council election. (Michael Fazio/CBC)

温尼伯居民在周三的选举中投票重组市议会,使四名现任议员落马,并选出了历史性的九名首次当选的市议员代表他们进入市政厅。

Winnipeg residents voted to transform their city council in Wednesday's election, sending four incumbents packing and electing a historic nine first-time councillors to represent them at city hall.

尽管人们预料到会出现大幅人事更迭——在市议会原有的十五名现任议员中,有三分之一未寻求连任——但几位任职时间最长的议员遭到罢免,意味着如今进入市政厅的人中,有一半以上将是新面孔。

While a substantial turnover was expected, with one-third of council's 15 incumbents not seeking re-election, the ousting of several of its longest-serving members means more than half those now going to city hall will be first-time councillors.

这是温尼伯市议会自1992年选举(当时该市缩减为目前的15个选区)以来经历的最大规模的人事更迭。

It's the biggest turnover Winnipeg's council has seen since the 1992 election, when the city went down to its current 15 wards.

落马者包括老基尔多南(Old Kildonan)选区议员黛维·夏尔马(Devi Sharma),她还曾担任市议会议长;以及长期的特兰斯康(Transcona)代表拉斯·怀亚特(Russ Wyatt),他的竞选连任之路一直笼罩在性侵指控的阴影之下。

The oustings included Old Kildonan councillor Devi Sharma, who also served as council's Speaker, and longtime Transcona representative Russ Wyatt, whose re-election campaign rolled out under a cloud of sexual assault charges.

圣詹姆斯(St. James)现任议员肖恩·多布森(Shawn Dobson)也在投票中落败。在他的政治生涯中,过去24年里他已参加了七次选举。

St. James incumbent Shawn Dobson was also voted out, in a political career that has now seen him run in seven elections over the past 24 years.

赢得温尼伯市长另一个任期后,斯科特·吉林汉姆(Scott Gillingham)表示:“感觉太棒了。”温尼伯市议会迎来数十年来最大规模人事更迭,九名新议员将进驻市政厅。与此同时,代表温尼伯北部迈纳尔斯基(Mynarski)选区十多年的罗斯·伊迪(Ross Eadie)失去了职务,2022年的挑战者娜塔莉·史密斯(Natalie Smith)在周三晚上的第二次竞选中险胜。

'It feels fantastic,' Scott Gillingham says after winning another term as Winnipeg mayor Biggest turnover in decades as 9 new councillors headed to Winnipeg city hall And Ross Eadie, who represented north Winnipeg's Mynarski ward for more than a decade, lost his job after a second campaign from 2022 challenger Natalie Smith saw her eke out a victory Wednesday night.

史密斯在胜选后表示,虽然她知道这将是一场势均力敌的竞选,但根据市里的计票结果,她没想到能以一百多票的微弱优势从伊迪手中夺走这个席位。

Following her win, Smith said while she knew it would be a close race, she didn't imagine she'd wrest the seat away from Eadie by a margin of a little over 100 votes, according to results from the city.

史密斯在周三结果揭晓后表示:“我超级兴奋。但我也知道还有很多工作要做。我知道迈纳尔斯基的人民信任我,所以我必须兑现我许下的许多承诺。”

"I'm super excited. But I also know there's lots of work. And I know the people of Mynarski have entrusted me, and so I have to follow through on a lot of the promises that I've made," Smith said after the results came in Wednesday.

“尝试了第二次才成功,但(赢得选举)……非常了不起。我是一个政治迷,所以我知道这绝不是一场轻松的胜利。但归根结底,这里的民众和居民想要一些改变。”史密斯在竞选网站上将自己描述为一名在曼尼托巴省斯坦巴克(Steinbach)出生长大的社区组织者,后为了上大学而搬到温尼伯。

"It took a second try, but to [win is] … pretty remarkable. I'm a politics nerd, so I know that it's not an easy win, by any means. But at the end of the day, you know, folks and residents here wanted something different." Smith describes herself on her campaign website as a community organizer born and raised in Steinbach, Man., who moved to Winnipeg for university.

她的网站显示,她此前曾为温尼伯各大学的U-Pass公交卡公投以及保护勒迈森林(Lemay Forest)进行过竞选活动,并曾在妇女健康诊所(Women's Health Clinic)、北区社区复兴公司(North End Community Renewal Corporation)和荒野委员会(Wilderness Committee)工作过。

She's previously campaigned for the U-Pass transit referendum for Winnipeg-based universities and to protect the Lemay Forest, her website says, and has worked at the Women’s Health Clinic, the North End Community Renewal Corporation and the Wilderness Committee.

史密斯说:“我希望市议会能有一些新面孔,再加上更有力的组织工作,这意味着我们可以为这座城市做更多的事情,并真正以非常进步的方式推动我们前进。”

"I hope that having some new voices on city council, with a lot of stronger organizing, means that we can get more done for the city, and really push us ahead in a very progressive way," Smith said.

老挑战者,新面孔 这种对变革的渴望似乎在全市各个选区都有所体现——包括圣詹姆斯选区,退休的贝尔MTS(Bell MTS)经理凯利·赖巴克(Kelly Ryback)击败了现任议员多布森。

Old challengers, new faces That hunger for change is one that appears to have been felt in wards across the city — including St. James, where retired Bell MTS manager Kelly Ryback beat incumbent Dobson.

与史密斯和伊迪很相似,赖巴克在2022年的选举中败给多布森后,经过第二次尝试终于脱颖而出。

Much like Smith and Eadie, Ryback was able to come out on top after giving it a second try, following a loss to Dobson in the 2022 election.

他对市政厅也并不陌生。自六年前退休以来,赖巴克曾多次作为代表出席市议会,反对温尼伯公交系统的路线重组以及约翰·布伦伯格(John Blumberg)高尔夫球场的出售,该物业是该市在海丁利(Headingley)农村市镇内拥有的财产。

He's also no stranger to city hall. Since retiring six years ago, Ryback has appeared at council as a delegate on a number of occasions, arguing against Winnipeg Transit's route overhaul and the sale of the John Blumberg golf course, a property the city owns within the rural municipality of Headingley.

多布森在代表圣詹姆斯一个任期后失去了席位。他此前曾在2014年至2018年担任圣查尔斯(St. Charles)选区的议员,该选区作为创建韦弗利韦斯特(Waverley West)新辖区的选区边界调整的一部分已被撤销。

Dobson lost the seat after representing St. James for one term. He previously served from 2014 to 2018 as the councillor for St. Charles, which was dissolved as part of ward boundary changes that created the new jurisdiction of Waverley West.

与此同时,在选举之夜即将到来之际,温尼伯市议会现任任期最长的议员之一拉斯·怀亚特在面临刑事指控的同时,失去了他在市政厅的特兰斯康席位。

Meanwhile, Russ Wyatt — one of the longest-serving current members of Winnipeg city council going into election night — lost his Transcona seat at city hall as he faces criminal charges.

社区中心行政人员洛拉·梅瑟曼(Lora Meseman)在她的首次政治竞选中成功从这位资深议员手中夺走了这个席位。

Community centre executive Lora Meseman was able to take the seat from the longtime councillor in her first bid for political office.

此次罢免正值怀亚特面临包括性侵在内的指控之际,警方表示这些指控涉及2023年和2025年发生的两起独立疑似事件中的两名男子。怀亚特否认了这些尚未被证实指控,并计划在法庭上为自己辩护。

The ousting comes as Wyatt faces charges including sexual assault, which police have said involve two men in separate alleged incidents from 2023 and 2025. Wyatt denies the allegations, which have not been proven, and plans to defend himself in court.

*怀亚特于2002年首次当选。在面临此前一项后来被撤销的性侵指控后,他选择不参加2018年的竞选,随后于2022年重返市议会。

Wyatt was first elected in 2002. He chose not to run in 2018 — following a previous charge of sexual assault, which was later dropped — before returning to council in 2022.

温尼伯北部老基尔多南选区的资深议员黛维·夏尔马已被前学区托管人格雷格·麦克法兰(Greg McFarlane)挤下台。

And Devi Sharma, the longtime councillor for north Winnipeg's Old Kildonan ward, has been ousted from her role by former school trustee Greg McFarlane.

麦克法兰曾担任七橡树学校分局(Seven Oaks School Division)的托管人十多年。

McFarlane served as a trustee with the Seven Oaks School Division for more than a decade.

夏尔马于2010年首次当选代表老基尔多南,当时她成为温尼伯第一位印度裔加拿大籍市议员。她也是第一位担任市政厅议长的女性——这一职务是她在任职第一个任期内担任的。

Sharma was first elected to represent Old Kildonan in 2010, when she became Winnipeg's first Indo-Canadian councillor. She's also the first woman to serve as Speaker at city hall — a role she took on in her first term in office.

周三的结果还使温尼伯市议会更加接近性别平等。15名议员中有8名男性和7名女性,而在选举前为9名和6名。

Wednesday's results also bring Winnipeg's city council closer to gender parity. Eight of the 15 councillors are men and seven are women, compared to nine and six before the election.

有六名议员保住了他们的席位:埃文·邓肯(Evan Duncan,查尔斯伍德-塔克西多-韦斯特伍德选区)、辛迪·吉尔罗伊(Cindy Gilroy,丹尼尔麦金太尔选区)、埃玛·杜兰-伍德(Emma Durand-Wood,埃尔姆伍德-东基尔多南选区)、杰夫·布罗瓦蒂(Jeff Browaty,北基尔多南选区)、薇薇安·桑托斯(Vivian Santos,波因特道格拉斯选区)和马特·阿拉德(Matt Allard,圣博尼法斯选区)。

Six councillors hung on to their spots: Evan Duncan (Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood), Cindy Gilroy (Daniel McIntyre), Emma Durand-Wood (Elmwood-East Kildonan), Jeff Browaty (North Kildonan), Vivian Santos (Point Douglas) and Matt Allard (St. Boniface).

阅读媒体原文 ↗