Municipal Election 2006 - still five months away

There are three wards in Ottawa without a candidate registered for the 2006 Municipal Election . Now, there’s still over 5 months until the election, so still plenty of time to sign up – but if you’re looking for an easy election campaign, maybe these wards might be for you?

 * 
College - Ward 8

 * 
Gloucester-Southgate - Ward 10

 * 
Rideau-Vanier - Ward 12

More stuff:

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Memo to the City of Ottawa's web department: On your o
[
 fficial candidate list page
](http://ottawa.ca/elections/nominated_en.html)
, please add the name of each ward, alongside the ward number.  I'm guessing that for most people, "Ward 3" is meaningless - whereas "Bell-South Nepean" is just a little more descriptive.
  


 * 
Mayoral Don Rivington has dropped out of the race -- but
[
 his web page
](http://www.ombudsmanforottawa.ca/)
doesn't give any reason why.
  


 * 
Mayoral candidate
[
 Barkley Pollock
](http://www.myspace.com/barkleypollockformayor)
is using a MySpace page as his election web site.

** Related: ** Ottawa Election Guide…