A lawyer, a business owner and a life coach are all hoping to unseat city councillor Ross Eadie in Winnipeg's Mynarski ward, one of whom is working from a hospital bed.

David Caper is recovering in Seven Oaks Hospital from injuries sustained when his bicycle was hit by a truck.

“For one thing, I don't take no for answer. I'm very strong willed and I keep on plugging away,” the life coach told CTV News of his decision to keep campaigning.

“If I'm to be in there, it's going to be a wild ride at city hall," he said.

Caper ran in Mynarski in 2014, finishing a distant fourth to Eadie, who is vying for his third election victory this year.

"I'm running again because I want to continue pushing for the things that I started to push for," Eadie said, referring to street repairs, the extension of Chief Peguis Trail, crime reduction and the creation 24/7 drop-in centres.

"There's so many people who have lost hope,” said Eadie. “They get addicted, you know, young kids need something to do."

In his last term Eadie did not back away from controversy.

As an opposition councillor to Bowman he battled over the police budget and pushed the police service to walk away from building a new station on recreation space.

He was also temporarily suspended from the police board in early 2016 after he spent a night at the Main Street Project.

“I got caught up with some later 20-year-olds in my mid-life crisis and had too much to drink,” said Eadie of the incident. “It could happen to anyone."

Business owner Mike Wiens is also in the running.

He says it's time for a fresh face for Mynarksi.

"Being in business for 30 years, I'm solving customer's problems every day,” he said, adding, “Business is just like city council."

Wiens said one of his main goals is to increase voter turnout.

"When they're sitting at the council seat they have a bigger presence because they have more backing from the ward," he said.

The other candidate for Mynarski, lawyer Greg Littlejohn, declined an interview with CTV News. Like Caper, he also ran in 2014, finishing in second place to Eadie by a difference of nearly 4,000 votes.

With files from CTV's Jeff Keele