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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 second installment of their responses. The questions were sent to all five candidates in the riding, however, Daniel Kowalewski of the Libertarian [...]
(Chris Halliday, Orangeville Banner) – Which provincial party to trust with Ontario’s health care sector was a hot topic of conversation at Westside Secondary School in Orangeville on Wednesday night (Sept. 14). During the second of two all-candidates debates hosted by the Greater Dufferin Area Chamber of Commerce (GDACC), local ratepayers grilled four of the [...]
(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 first installment of their responses. Rob Strang — Green What would you do as MPP to attract, and retain, well-paying, full-time jobs [...]
(Orangeville Banner) – The Ontario Liberal Party will review the province’s Aggregate Resources Act (ARA) if re-elected to power, it was announced this week, prompting its competition in the upcoming election is questioning the timing. The ARA, which has been chastised by many people opposing The Highland Companies’ plans for a 2,316-acre quarry in Melancthon, [...]
(Orangeville Banner) – Rob Strang grew up in Scarborough at a time when kids could still play in fields and streams. As a chemical engineering student at Queen’s University, his thesis was to produce ethanol from farm waste. During summers he navigated helicopters in the Arctic. Today, as a self-employed industrial hygienist, Rob travels to [...]
(Bill Tremblay, Orangeville Banner) - Candidates looking to represent Dufferin-Caledon at Queen’s Park provided three unique philosophies on taxation during the ridings first all-candidates meeting. Progressive Conservative incumbent Sylvia Jones, Green Party candidate Rob Strang and Liberal candidate Lori Holloway had their first public opportunity to sell their stance to possible voters at the Grace Tipling [...]
Dear editor, Re: Highland a ‘larger’ Liberal contributor (July 28). I appreciate Robert MacDermid‘s study of corporate contributions to political parties, candidates and campaigns at both the municipal and provincial level, and concur with his preference for eliminating such donations. Our political representative’s job is to serve the best interests of the people in the [...]