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You’re not campaigning if you don’t have balloons at your public announcements, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe told the media. That said, mayoral candidate Jeff Leiper and his campaign honcho Stephen Yardy appear to be...
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...
A city that works depends on a transit system that works, and right now, too many people are experiencing the opposite. Residents are leaving early just in case a bus does not...
After 15 years of neglect by the city, and in part Kitchissippi councillor and mayoral candidate Jeff Leiper, the best city staff can do is demolish half of Les Soeurs de la Visitation...
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...
By Evan H. Potter On April 12, Péter Magyar did something in Hungary that, until recently, belonged in the realm of political fantasy. He defeated Viktor Orbán, a 16-year incumbent who had...
Mayoral candidate and Kitchissippi Councillor Jeff Leiper appears to finally be getting the message that Ottawa’s troubled transit system is the big issue in the upcoming municipal election. You need to be logged in...
University of Ottawa Professor Evan Potter critiques Bulldog editor Ken Gray’s post on mayoral candidate Jeff Leiper’s campaign to this point. You need to be logged in to view the rest of...
In most large communities, light-rail operates pretty much all the time. And it runs well in cold-weather cities such as Calgary where some have called that city’s LRT system the best in...
By Evan H. Potter Let’s not overthink this. Kitchissippi Councilor Jeff Leiper will become Ottawa’s new mayor if he can hold three-quarters of former mayoral candidate Catherine McKenney’s 119,241 votes from their...
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