Luke Randall



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Biographie

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I’m about hard work, community, and practical action plans. This election, I’m running under Susan Holt. Susan has gathered a team of the best people from across party lines and career backgrounds to work together under one banner to fix the broken parts of our province.

Luke Randall

Luke’s deep connection to Fredericton North started generations ago, even before he was born. His paternal grandfather worked pulling ice from the Wolastoq River to chill neighbourhood ice boxes. Today, his parents live only a few houses away from where the old family bakery once operated. Luke spent many of his school years in Devon, spending time with his maternal grandparents on St. Mary’s Street where they also ran their family owned and operated business. Many years later, Luke would buy his first home in Devon where he resided for fourteen years. He now lives with his husband Tyler on the North Side of the Wolastoq.

Luke grew up just outside of Fredericton and he earned his high school diploma from Devon Park Christian School on Fredericton’s North side in 1994. After graduating, instead of continuing on to post-secondary education, Luke decided to take a gap year to open Endeavours The Artist Shop at the age of 18.

Starting his own business on his parent’s front porch, the “gap year” has lasted for almost 30 years and now includes ThinkPlay, the local toy and boardgame store that Luke opened separately in 2003. Endeavours & ThinkPlay is now under one roof and located at 141 Brunswick Street in Fredericton’s downtown. Luke has a passion for arts, culture, and community; believing that everyone should have the opportunity to be engaged. In addition to running his business, Luke has been instrumental in developing arts in our Fredericton community and beyond, having served on many arts boards and initiatives, including in executive positions. Luke has contributed through planning and hosting arts events, or enabling their possibility through mentorship and sponsorship. Owning his own company in downtown Fredericton has allowed Luke the opportunities to serve on the executive for Downtown Fredericton, act as a mentor to many new business owners, and work with high school students in co-op programs, art classes, and business classes. For many years, Luke wrote a business column for The Daily Gleaner. Finally, Luke has served on the board and many committees of iAMart, a North American buying group for artist materials retail companies. All of these opportunities have given Luke firsthand experience with working in community, but also understanding the nuances of large-scale business management.

While business has been a fulfilling career for Luke, the current state of our social and environmental landscape has left Luke knowing he has a responsibility to be an active part of the solution for the challenges we face as a community. Luke is deeply committed to our community and province; this is where he grew up and where his parents are aging. Luke is particularly concerned with the crisis in access to primary healthcare in this province, the lack of adequate and affordable housing for residents of Fredericton North, challenges to daily affordability, and the protection of marginalized communities. Luke is confident we must take action on environmental issues affecting Fredericton North. Flooding will continue to impact Fredericton North, and Luke wants to help prepare our community for future challenges to come, including the growing risk of fires and dry periods. For this reason, Luke has decided to take a step back from the business he started from nothing, in order to do his part to help ensure our community has a future with access to healthcare when you need it, adequate housing and solutions to make life more affordable for New Brunswickers.

Raison de la candidature

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Last fall, my husband Tyler and I knew that we needed to do something because the province was in such terrible shape. The Premier was working hard at dividing, pitting neighbour against neighbour and so many people lacked primary healthcare.

Two parties asked me to run. We booked meetings with both and it was Susan Holt who committed to collaborative leadership, valued our differences of opinions, and showed us how she was working with people across the political spectrum who shared her goal of improving this province for everyone. Most of all she told us that she the division that we all feel needed to stop. She wanted New Brunswickers to be neighbours who could trust each other again. She wants New Brunswickers to be working together because we need all hands on deck to fix this broken province.

I’ve spent almost 30 years building my business and I love what I do. If I was going to take four years off of my job, I needed to know that I was going to get work done and that the work that I was doing was bringing my neighbours together. Susan Holt shares that vision.

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