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Ottawa is stricken with a divide between the affluent and “everybody else,” says a report by the Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres of Ottawa.Titled, Bridging the Gap, this inaugural report was released, say advocates, in hopes of shaping discussion among candidates in the upcoming Ottawa municipal elections.
Somerest Ward voters will have a lot of options to consider when they go to the polls next Monday. While most wards have three to six candidates running in the municipal election, 11 have stepped forward to fill the void left by veteran Diane Holmes, who is retiring.
Ranked voting is being referred to by many as the answer to Ontario’s electoral woes, but while Premier Kathleen Wynne has pledged to allow the system to be used in 2018, some sober second thought might be required before making the change.
The system seems simple. Each voter receives his or her ballot with a list of candidates. For Somerset Ward this time around that would mean a list of 11 choices.
To many adults it’s a taboo subject or else a laughable one: the bathroom. But an Ottawa group is fighting to make the discussion public, bringing more, cleaner public bathrooms to the city, starting with Centretown’s own Dundonald Park.