[VegChat] Municipal elections coming up in the fall

[Pam Mayhew]

Hello - you can put me down as someone who would be interested in greening
the municipal election. Pam

On 1/25/06, K <pekieca at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> PS to my previous message...
>
> wonder if any of the local GREEN candidates would be
> interested....specifically,  David Chernushenko, Federal Green Candidate for
> Ottawa-Centre..  After all, didn't Kim Campbell start out at the municipal
> level..or was it as a school board trustee...
>
> regardless, would be great if someone of his mindset was mayor, and that
> would give him some political experience.....
>
> BTW, here are the stats from the GREEN site as to how they fared.  It is
> interesting that in wild rose alberta, they came in second to the former
> Reform MP, Myron ?....who is actually from Colorado.....Harris' speech to
> Empire Club last week or so did say they had a lot of support in alberta
> from oil patch workers.
>
> Note they got the most votes for a riding here in ottawa-centre...so this
> could indicate that ottawa is ready to embrace a green mayor
>
> * few Green results:
>
> *Percentage nationally: 4.5%
> Number of votes: 665,940
>
> Best province: Alberta, 6.6%
> Best riding (percentage): Bruce--Grey--Owen Sound, 12.9%
> Best riding (number of votes): Ottawa Centre, 6,766 votes
>
>
> *Edelweiss D'Andrea <edandrea at magma.ca>* wrote:
>
> We escaped a majority Conservative government. Hurray!!!
>
> The Greens and NDP, two parties with excellent environmental platforms,
> got a combined 21% of the popular vote in last night's election. The Greens
> got 4% and NDP got 17%. The NDP gained 11 seats (30 seats, up from 19 in the
> last election).
>
> However, it's time to start thinking about the municipal election, which
> is taking place in the fall. Did you know that grassroots organizations in
> the US have pressured their municipal governments to take action, and it's
> worked. In Oregon, candidates were picked based on their environmental
> records, and many of these "green" candidates got onto city council by
> acclamation.
>
> Canadian cities have a long way to go before getting anywhere near the
> commitment to sustainability as these US cities. But we can do it!
>
> In Ottawa, a majority of city councillors consistently vote down
> environmental bills. This year, our city council voted to go $37,000,000
> into debt by 2008 to build roads, mainly suburban roads that will support
> ever-growing car traffic, but it voted against spending $1,400,000 for
> environmental programs to monitor air quality and encourage greenhouse gas
> reduction, among other things.
>
>
> I would like to ask you all if you would consider getting involved in
> helping "green" candidates get voted in. I promise it will be fun. We have a
> graphic artist, an event-organizer extraordinaire, a professional writer,
> and an excellent cookie baker onboard. I have invited community groups to
> get involved, too.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Edelweiss
>
> -----Original Message-----$1
> From: vegchat-bounces at ottawaveg.com
> [mailto:vegchat-bounces at ottawaveg.com]On Behalf Of Jayme Dunlop
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:39 PM
> To: vegchat at ottawaveg.com
> Subject: [VegChat] Elections over!
>
>
> Election night has come and gone with no great drama. Thankfully the
> Conservatives were held to a minority, that would have been a messy
> four years!
>
> The sad part for us Urbanites is the representation in the government.
> The three Metro regions of Canada's biggest cities(Vancouver, Toronto,
> Montreal) have 0 Conservative seats. It sure says allot of the stark
> differences between rural and city folk.
>
> Though I did not vote Green, it was unfornate not to see them score a
> seat. On a positive, they did pop up on teh CBC radar at one point in
> the evening. Apparently they jumped into the lead at one point, which
> was cool enough. They even managed to get 3rd place in some ridings,
> another positive.
>
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