Ottawa Needs Anger To Oust Mayor: POTTER
By Evan H. Potter Recently, I’ve been preaching the gospel of proper polling – probability samples, low margins of error, the whole catechism. Don’t trust vibes, I say. Vibes are how campaigns and...
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Report Fuels Speculation Tierney Running For Mayor: GRAY
A report today has fueled speculation that long-time Beacon Hill-Cyrville Councillor Tim Tierney will join the mayor’s election race. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content....
Poll Shows Wild Card Lawson Puts Sutcliffe In Jeopardy: GRAY
Ottawa has a mayoral race. That’s hard to imagine for just a few months ago it looked like incumbent Mayor Mark Sutcliffe had a walkover on his hands. But now Sutcliffe has...
Sutcliffe Can Campaign Like No Other
Here is one of the advantages of incumbency for Mayor Mark Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe gets to bask in the spotlight with Prime Minister Mark Carney accepting money from the federal home-building plan. No...
Rural Transit Just Election PR: BENN
— FREE CONTENT — Basic arithmetic gets trumped by pre-election posturing. Every time. Earlier this week, Ottawa’s city council instructed staff to analyze ways to extend public transit to rural areas...
How To Pick The Best Councillor: JONES
With an impending election, here’s our political dilemma. Do taxpayers need candidates and councillors who are big-picture types or detail-masters or some combination thereof? That is not an easy question to answer....
Trust Lost In City Hall: SARAVANAMUTTO
This is a campaign document from mayoral candidate Neil Saravanamuttoo: — Trust between Ottawa City Hall and residents should be a two-way street. But the public has largely lost faith in politicians....
Coffin To Take On Hubley In Kanata South: POTTER
Kanata South Councillor Allan Hubley will have some competition this time out from Erin Coffin, according to uOttawa Professor Evan Potter: You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content....
Ken Gray Was Right (For A Change)
You can’t hear this enough. A bit of a rarity but appreciated nevertheless. And from the esteemed uOttawa Professor Evan Potter no less: You need to be logged in to view the...
Here’s Sutcliffe’s Big Election Advantage
This is the kind of free advertising that the mayor and, less so, councillors get that reinforces their name recognition and makes it difficult for newcomers to municipal politics to win come...
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