Archive 1997-2016
By Lindsey Parry
Richard Patten says education cuts, the threat of school closures, and restabilising the health care system are the top issues in Ottawa Centre.
The current Liberal MPP says his party plans to “get creative” with excess space in smaller schools, opening up buildings to daycare, organizational training, and ESL students.
By Chad Paulin
While summer-like weather is heating up the province, voters are cool to an election that’s been anything but sizzling.
Around water coolers, in coffee shops and on street corners, the election appears to be the last thing on anyone’s mind. Bathing suits, gardens and car washes are in; health-care cutbacks, education reforms and the Common Sense Revolution are out.
Age: 40
Born: Ottawa
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Geography at Simon Fraser University and a Master’s in Urban Planning at Queen’s University.
Career: Arnold is the city councillor for Somerset Ward in Centretown. She is Chair of the Planning and Economic Development Committee, is a member of the Community Services and Operations Committee, the Advisory Committee on Equity and Diversity and the Environmental Advisory committee.
By Joe Boulé
Health care. Education. Workfare. Tax cuts. Law and Order. Those are some of the issues that have dominated the election on the provincial scene.
It’s not much different on the local level.
Like most provincial elections, the issues that surface in the ridings are generally a microcosm of the “big picture” throughout Ontario. But at a local level — in Ottawa Centre — words such as “education cuts” get replaced with more concrete examples such as “McNabb Park.”