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Where the contenders stand in Vaughan riding
With the federal election scheduled for Oct. 14, Vaughan Today caught up with Vaughan candidates from the Conservatives, Liberals and Greens to get their take on some of the issues facing voters. Here’s their take on our questions. -
Sparks fly over sign destruction
The battle for votes in the riding of Vaughan has claimed a number of Liberal incumbent Maurizio Bevilacqua’s election signs. -
Mayor’s husband hints at council run in 2010
Embattled-mayor Linda Jackson’s number one booster may throw his hat into the ring of municipal politics come 2010. -
NDP hopeful named
Simon Strelchik has long felt a bond with the New Democratic Party. He remembers a 1993 classroom exercise that asked students what political party they’d vote for if given the chance. He voted NDP. -
Kent ready to race in Thornhill
Ask former broadcast journalist Peter Kent what brought him to Thornhill and he’ll say, “Serendipity.” The truth, though, isn’t that simple. -
Di Biase: ‘Vindication’
Former mayor Michael Di Biase says he feels “comfortable that just retribution” has been meted out after last week’s dismissal of Vaughan City Clerk John Leach. -
The referendum no one refers to
The first referendum question asked of Ontario voters in 83 years has yet to grab the attention of people in the ridings of Toronto-Danforth and Beaches-East York, observers say. -
NDP subway message also veering off track
The brows of Vaughan's subway supporters furrowed during last week's televised leaders' debate when provincial NDP leader Howard Hampton said the Spadina extension should end at York University. Hampton's position is not new, but it is contrary to what his Vaughan candidate, Rick Morelli, is on the record as saying. -
Thornhill hopefuls head to school
Hoping to make political hay out of a stage trick, challenger Peter Shurman conjured up images of a "magic subway" and a "magic hospital" and then tried to convince 100 students at St. Elizabeth Catholic High School that it was all a figment of Mario Racco's imagination. -
The referendum no one refers to
The first referendum question asked of Ontario voters in 83 years has yet to grab the attention of people in the ridings of Vaughan and Thornhill, observers say. On Oct. 10, voters across the province will not only get the chance to pick who gets into government, but also the very nature of the government they want.