Tag: Civic election 2022
RECAP: Our live coverage of election night in London, across the region
Free Press reporters and photographers are monitoring the 14 ward races and the mayoral battle in London, and our Postmedia colleagues are in communities from Chatham to Woodstock.
CIVIC ELECTION: It’s decision time in London, across the region
London’s municipal election will be held Monday. Here’s what you need to know.
Revenge is a dish best served . . . by Rick Astley? Ex-councillor fesses up
A former city councillor has turned the tables in a website battle during London’s civic election campaign in the form of a 1980s music video. Ward 10 Coun. Paul Van Meerbergen was “RickRolled” at the start of the campaign, a prank that redirects a website to the YouTube video of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give […]
Cornies: Answer the doorbell; it’s democracy calling. And vote
In one of his bits, Sebastian Maniscalco, an American stand-up comedian, satirizes our 21st-century reactions to the simple chime of a doorbell. His parents’ generation, he says, treated the arrival of a visitor at the front door as an occasion. “We’ve got company!” they’d shriek. Then, “How are you? Can you come in for a […]
Civic election: ‘Anti-woke’ groups raise the temperature in trustee races
Sherri Moore, a Thames Valley District school board trustee in London, was shocked to wake up this week and find out she’d been wrongly linked to a website endorsing “anti-woke” candidates running for school boards in Monday’s Ontario civic elections. Moore was tagged in a now-deleted tweet the author said was a case of […]
Mayoral debate: How to build a London that’s safer for women, girls
A mayoral candidate shared her own experience with abuse at the final debate before London’s municipal election, a Wednesday night event squarely focused on tackling violence against women. Sandie Thomas, London pastor and founder of a Black community centre, revealed she’d be threatened at knifepoint while pregnant. She highlighted the experience while giving an answer about […]
Use it or lose it: Candidates must give leftover donations to city hall
It’s the ultimate use-it-or-lose-it scenario. Ontario’s municipal election rules require candidates who don’t spend all the money they raised during the campaign to turn over the extra to city hall after the race. After the 2018 election, London city hall came away with $518.10. “That’s not very much money,” said political scientist Peter Woolstencroft, a […]
Southwestern Ontario mayoral candidate dies
A candidate running for mayor in a municipality near Kincardine has died. “It is with sadness that we learn that Donald E. Tedford, a candidate for the position of mayor, has passed away,” the Town of South Bruce Peninsula posted on its website on Monday. “We send our condolences to Mr. Tedford’s family.” In the […]
Can a freedom convoy-backing local mayor win re-election?
Mayoral candidates are making their final pitches to voters in a Southwestern Ontario township where COVID-19 restriction tensions fuelled a highway blockade earlier this year, but don’t expect pandemic politics to be a ballot-box issue for most citizens, one political watcher says. Incumbent Jackie Rombouts drew fire earlier this year for her anti-lockdown stances and […]
550-vote margin sets stage for epic St. Thomas mayoral rematch
Only 550 votes separated them in the end last time.