Huband joins Portage race

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Longtime lawyer and community activist Charles Huband recently declared his intention to carry the Manitoba Liberal Party banner in the Portage la Prairie constituency election.

Huband, 87, lives in Winnipeg but says he decided to step up for the Liberals to ensure Portage voters have a choice on Sept. 10.

“The decision was made as no one else sought the candidacy in Portage la Prairie,” Huband said.
Huband held public office from 1964 to 1968 on the Metropolitan Council of Greater Winnipeg.

Most recently, Huband served as civil litigation counsel with Winnipeg law firm Taylor McCaffrey LLP from 2006 until earlier this year.  He was appointed to the Manitoba Court of Appeal in 1978 and served in that capacity for 27 years until mandatory retirement from the bench in 2006. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Law Society of Manitoba in 1996.

He was a founding and continuing board member of Manitoba Theatre Workshop (now Prairie Theatre Exchange) from 1972 to the present. He’s been a board member for the Manitoba Historical Society for the last five years.

He said he’s contacted Liberal Party supporters in Portage and plans to start campaigning door-to-door in the next two weeks.

“I’m going to be as active as I possibly can be,” Huband vowed.

Incumbent MLA Ian Wishart is running for the Progressive Conservative Party and Andrew Podolecki for the NDP in Portage la Prairie.