Loney enters Winnipeg mayoral race

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The first potential candidate to declare he would be running for mayor after Brian Bowman said he wouldn’t seek a third term has registered for his shot at the city’s top spot.

“Winnipeg is stuck, it’s stuck in many different ways. It’s stuck because we’re managing problems and not addressing them. I am a seasoned problem solver, that has been my career,” Shaun Loney told reporters Wednesday.

The self-described “entrepreneur and trained economist” founded non-profits Building Urban Industries for Local Development, and Aki Energy. Loney served as a staffer with the Gary Doer government and holds NDP membership, but said he had become “uninspired” by the party more recently.

Loney, 51, said he’d be advocating for solutions to infrastructure issues, young people leaving Winnipeg to pursue careers elsewhere, and high costs in emergency services.

“We can’t afford to maintain what we have now, so you won’t be hearing big new grandiose schemes from me about new infrastructure — we have to look after what it is that we have.”

When Loney first declared he’d be running, in 2021, he said he’d work to contract out the needs of repeat 911 callers to social service agencies in an effort to reduce the workload for police.

Loney is the seventh candidate to register for the mayoral race thus far. The 2022 municipal election is scheduled for Oct. 26.

malak.abas@freepress.mb.ca

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Malak Abas is a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press.

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