Category: Focus

Richard Mahoney looks out of place in his Bank Street office. A floor above is the Rideau Club where gentlemen wear ties and ladies lock their fur coats in the washroom.

When Paul Dewar’s university friends used to tell him he’d run for political office one day, he kept mum on the subject.

Judging by David Chernushenko’s enthusiasm, you’d swear he must be talking about something else. But the Ottawa Centre Green Party candidate seems truly excited about his home’s new, energy-efficient water heater.

Ottawa Centre’s next Member of Parliament will be selected through an electoral system that has changed little since Britain created it more than 800 years ago — a system many complain penalizes small parties even if they win broad national support.