…or, more accurately, Ed Chin, our Official Agent, aided by Mary Ann Grainger, our Campaign Manager, and also all the volunteers who collected signatures, has won the race to make Sharon Howarth the first candidate officially registered in our riding. Ed is shown here signing the final registration papers with Sharon.
The Pledge TO Green event on October 14th was well-attended, particularly by candidates, more than 60 of whom pledged to implement the City’s existing Environmental Plan (the count today has reached 74). Ed Chin was among the signers on the day of the event. Elizabeth May gave a stirring keynote speech and our local MPP Peter Tabuns opened the presentations.
Here’s another conflict for the evening of November 7. Apparently, several homeowners associations are finally organizing the first All-Candidates Meeting for Ward 30. Wish I could be there. I’d be delighted to get reports on this. Please go out and clap for Ed.
All-Candidates Meeting.
Tuesday, 2006 November 7 at 7pm.
Matty Eckler Community Centre (Gerrard at Pape). Free.
The flyer for this event has just been passed around and the list of topics is very near and dear to my heart:
The only thing I would add is immigrant voting. I thought this was a bit of cleverness that only Ed and I were considering, but a few days ago, Mayor Miller said it too.
Yesterday, I went to the Port Lands Action Committee (PLAC) meeting at the Ralph Thornton Centre. Ed Chin was there, too. It’s a bit of a misnomer, as no actions are ever taken, as far as I know. In order to encourage the participation and input of industry and builders, organizer Dennis Findlay treats these meetings as information sessions. It’s a great place to go to find out what’s being built and planned for the Portlands. Read more »
Ed Chin has his campaign website up and running.
He has committed to releasing position statements each day of the campaign.
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