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Posted: Feb 05, 2021 8:15 PM NT | Last Updated: February 6
Provincial NDP president Kyle Rees led the vetting process for candidates in this year s election. (CBC)
The Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party is promising to do a better job of vetting potential candidates in light of controversial tweets by two candidates in this year s campaign.
Andrew Lovell, the party s candidate for Conception Bay South, used derogatory anti-gay language in tweets several years ago in tweets to friends.
Lovell wrote, Faggot!!! and Have a couple beer cooled off for me dick licker, in August 2012.
In August 2013, he wrote, Comin at you fags! First couple rounds might be an auto draft then flatout dick jokes! The online publication True North first reported about Andrew Lovell s homophobic tweets.
Alison Coffin, Newfoundland and Labrador s NDP Leader, is an economist and athlete
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Jan 15, 2021 at 5:14 pm EDT
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. A look at Alison Coffin, leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party.
Age: 50
Early years: Born in Corner Brook, she grew up in Joe Batt’s Arm. Her father was a school principal and her mother was a nurse. She has competed in hockey, ball hockey, football, triathlons, bodybuilding and softball.
Education: Graduated from Memorial University with an economics degree in 1993 and later completed her master’s degree at York University in Toronto, graduating in 1997.