Archive 1997-2016
By Kate Heartfield
In the days following the Nov. 13 municipal election, both the winner and the runner-up in the Centretown school trustee race were still trying to determine the reasons for the results.
Incumbent Albert Chambers, who says he was “surprised and disappointed” after the election, took only 32 per cent of the vote. School council activist Joan Spice won with 52 per cent, and David Allston, a 21-year-old university student, had a remarkably strong showing with 17 per cent.
The success of a recycling pilot-project that started in late August has prompted requests that it be extended until April.
By Michael Connors
Newly re-elected Somerset Coun. Elisabeth Arnold says her first order of business will be to make sure the new city is a compassionate one.
Support for the disadvantaged played heavily in Arnold’s Nov. 13 victory speech to supporters after she won the race to represent Centretown on the new city council. She took 76 per cent of the vote
in the election, receiving 6,517 votes to Olivia Bradley’s 2,084.
In the wake of the 37th general election, Canadians can congratulate themselves on marking a new level of voter apathy in the pages of our electoral history.