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Shelly Glover: Longtime city councillor Dan Vandal hopes to runs as a federal Liberal in Saint Boniface, setting up a potential battle in 2015 with Shelly Glover, the Conservative regional minister for Manitoba. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Vandal has sat on city council for 16 years, serving at first from 1995 to 2004, when he resigned to make an unsuccessful run for mayor against Sam Katz. He was returned to office in 2006. At the next federal election, Coun. Dan Vandal wants to carry the Liberal banner in Saint Boniface, a riding now represented by Tory cabinet minister Shelly Glover. Photo Store The St. Boniface councillor plans to seek the Liberal nomination in the federal riding, a traditional Grit stronghold that fell to Glover in 2008 and was held by the Tories in 2011. The Dan Vandal file Born: In Winnipeg in 1960. Before politics: Dropped out of high school and became a professional boxer, rising to a No. 1 ranking as a Canadian middleweight at 23. He then started working with youth and attained a social-work degree. First elected: As councillor for St. Boniface in 1995, when he defeated incumbent Evelyn Reese. Re-elected in 1998 and 2002. Mayoral run: Finished second to Sam Katz in the 2004 mayoral byelection created by the resignation of Glen Murray. Return to council: Reclaimed his seat in 2006 by defeating incumbent Franco Magnifico. Re-elected in 2010. Personal life: Married. Has four children and one grandchild. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.