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    Tony Penikett

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  1. Antony David John Penikett. ( 1945-11-14) November 14, 1945 (age 78) Sussex, England. Political party. New Democratic Party. Antony David John Penikett OC (born November 14, 1945) is a mediator and negotiator and former politician in Yukon, Canada, who served as the third premier of Yukon from 1985 to 1992.

  2. Dec 30, 2020 · The first NDP premier of Yukon is recognized for his human rights activism, land claims negotiations and adoption of the Human Rights Act. He says his motivation came from his childhood experiences and his fascination with the North.

  3. Dec 21, 2022 · Tony Penikett, a former Yukon premier and human rights activist, was invested as an officer into the Order of Canada in December 2022. He is one of the founders of the University of the Arctic, a circumpolar higher education network.

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  5. Feb 7, 2020 · Tony Penikett spent 25 years in public life, including two years at the Canadian House of Commons as Chief of Staff to federal New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent; five terms in the Yukon Legislative Assembly; and two terms as Premier of Canada’s Yukon Territory. His government negotiated settlements of Yukon First Nation land claims ...

  6. Dec 14, 2016 · Tony Penikett, then premier of Yukon, listens to the prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney, during a Constitutional conference in 1987 in Toronto. “People of the North” is a series of interviews created in partnership with Arctic in Context and Kesserwan Arteau, a legal and consulting firm that works with indigenous communities. Every six weeks, Kesserwan Arteau

  7. Penikett serves as a Mentor for the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation’s Jane Glassco Northern Fellows, Trudeau Mentor at The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and member of the Advisory Board at Polar Research and Policy Initiative. Tony Penikett is the former Premier of Yukon and a member of the Advisory Board at Polar Research and Policy ...

  8. Tony Penikett’s book is an elegant and deeply moving account of the social disruptions, changes in governance structures, and complications, contradictions, and paradoxes of evolving relations between Indigenous and settler communities around the circumpolar North.

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