Winnipeg's Waverley West elects former school trustee as next councillor

Jasmine Brar ran a platform of building Waverly West since thousands of families have made this ward their home in recent years. Brar said that she's going to council to get the money that is needed to build infrastructure for public services like libraries and an ice rink. That message seemed to have resonated with voters. Jasmine Brar captured over 5000 votes in a tight race with her contender Nafia Naso. Now Jasmine Brar is in the ward. She was a former school board trustee and also president of the school board. of a neighborhood association now this became an open race when Janice Luk, the outgoing incumbent said that she wasn't running for a third term as councilor of Waverly West leaving it wide open for five candidates all of them first generation immigrants including Brar who will now become the first new Canadian to serve as city councilor for Waverly West in this corner of the city's history Santiago Arias Orozco, CBC News, Winnipeg.