Ches Crosbie

A province in dire need of stable government instead gets a minority, and a likely return to the polls in the near future

Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador cast their ballots Thursday in what pollsters predicted would be a neck-and-neck contest between the incumbent Liberals and the renascent Progressive Conservatives

With debt piling up and the economy in shambles, the parties seem unable to distinguish themselves for Thursday’s election. No wonder it’s too close to call.

Ches Crosbie’s family’s political roots go deep in Newfoundland. And yet his career was crushed before it began.