election

On Tuesday October 5, Ottawa mayoral candidates Jim Watson, Larry O’Brien, Clive Doucet and Andrew Haydon will go head-to-head in Debate 2.0 – Envisioning Ottawa’s Future . It’s a 90-minute, web-enabled event during which citizens of Ottawa will be encouraged to participate both online or in-person at the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage. ...

Here’s David Chernushenko, one of the Capital Ward candidates for city council, doing his version of the Old Spice guy: ** Related: ** Ottawa Municipal Election Guide

From Twitter today, check out these tweets with the hashtag #iwantamayorwho. As far as I can tell, @hellokaitlin kicked this this off earlier in the afternoon. Good on ya Kaitlin!

A quick pointer today to a recent post on the Knitnut.net blog titled " Gorgeous George “. It’s about George Guirguis, who’s running for a council seat in Bay Ward. Zoom writes: Well, now he has fifty campaign videos on Youtube. ...

** We’re watching the numbers across Canada on tv and on the web. Notes so far: ** * [ CTV ](http://www.ctv.ca/mini/election2008/electionResults.html) and [ CBC ](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/) appear to have the most up-to-date seat results. * We like CBC's interactive and colourful map. ...

Update Sept 30: Laura Drake points us to some YouTube videos of the debate …. and O’Malley liveblogs again in Ottawa-Orleans I live in the suburbs now, but I used to live in Centretown. I miss a lot of things about living downtown, and one of them is the eclectic group of candidates to choose from at election time. ...

Nice post today on the ** ** ELgiN StreEt iRReguLars blog about the local “non-mainstream” candidates running in the federal election. It’s an entertaining and informing post: The latest polls seem to be pointing to the return of the Conservatives to government, the only debate being whether they get a majority or a minority. ...

Peter Simpson has a w onderfully sardonic take on Stephen Harper’s approach to arts funding his The Big Beat blog. Here’s a sample: ** ** Prime Minister Stephen Harper is absolutely right: all that money that His government spends on the arts each year could go to other, more useful purposes - say, covering His government's subsidy to Bombardier for one day - instead of being wasted by rich folks who fritter it all away going to fancy galas. ...

Robert Taylor Larter ran for mayor in the 2006 Ottawa municipal election. He didn’t participate in any public debates and ignored media requests. The only time he made the news during the campaign was for a) his enigmatic status and b) a threatening email he sent to some politicians. ...

Does anybody remember Robert Larter? He’s the guy who ran for mayor in 2006, but made himself totally unavailable to any media covering the election (We blogged about him last October.) Amazingly, he ended up with 667 total votes. ...