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 […]