The Issue: Selecting your next MPP Our View: Jones and Strang are the top picks If you haven’t started thinking about whom you will vote for, time is running out, so put on your thinking cap. We’re in the final days of campaigning ahead of Thursday’s (Oct. 6) provincial election. You will see five names [...]
It’s long been the tradition of this newspaper to endorse a candidate in the municipal, provincial and federal elections. And we’re well aware voters are becoming tiresome when it comes to picking who best to represent their interests at town hall, Queen’s Park and Ottawa after being sent to the polls on numerous occasions in [...]
Orangeville, Ontario – Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner (Simcoe-Grey) and Deputy Leader Rob Strang (Dufferin-Caledon) announced the Green Party’s plan to reform the Ontario electoral system to ensure that special interests take a back seat to the priorities of Ontarians. “It takes a lot of money to run a political campaign the likes of the [...]
(Jennifer Alvarez, Humber EtCetera) “Dufferin-Caledon Green Party candidate Rob Strang said his party is also invested in students. “We would impose a tuition cap for the 2012-2013 academic year and tie that to the inflation rate,” he said. “That way, students can plan and predict. The whole party is about planning for the future. Maybe [...]
(Matthew Strader, Caledon Enterprise) – There was a noticeable tone of frustration with the usual politics at the final all candidate debate in Caledon Monday. The Kinsmen Club of Bolton hosted the event for the candidates looking to represent Dufferin-Caledon. The majority of the public questions were centred around the proposed mega quarry in Melancthon [...]
(Matthew Strader, Caledon Enterprise) – Rob Strang, a former Orangeville councillor and present engineer working in disease prevention and occupational hygiene, is asking for the residents of Dufferin-Caledon to trust him on Oct. 6. The following are his responses to some of the biggest issues in Dufferin-Caledon. CE: The Samsung deal has made the creation [...]
See this article for a summary of the mega-quarry issue, written by Joyce Nelson. “Readers with long memories will recall that both the Mulroney Conservatives federally, and the Harris Conservatives provincially, were highly in favour of water privatization.” “Highland/Baupost has links to both the Conservative and Liberal parties. In the forthcoming October 6 provincial election, [...]
(Morgan Ian Adams, The Enterprise-Bulletin) DUNTROON – The incumbent Member of Provincial Parliament says he’ll push for a review of the province’s aggregate legislation in light of the so-called megaquarry in Melcanthon Township if the Progressive Conservatives form the next government. Speaking at an all-candidates’ forum on land and water issues Tuesday night sponsored by [...]
(Chris Halliday, Orangeville Banner) – Youth want tuition, mental health and protection services solved Should programs for children with mental health or abuse-related issues be more of a provincial election issue? Several youth receiving services in one way or another at Dufferin Child and Family Services (DCAFS) certainly feel they ought to be, and they’ve [...]
(Orangeville Banner) – In an effort to help voters get to know the provincial candidates in Dufferin-Caledon, The Banner prepared a series of questions regarding important issues to local residents. This is the third installment of their responses — featured to the right, on Page 3. The questions were sent to all five candidates in [...]