Municipal Elections: Ontario 2022

[dewline]

Last week, I participated in a Zoom-based training workshop on how to get people out to vote. This was organized by Making Voices Count in concert with the Cities for All Women Initiative, with an eye firmly on getting the vote out for the municipal elections set to conclude across Ontario on October 24th. I got persuaded to participate by people at the local community resource centre whom I've been in contact with off-and-on for years now.

I decided I want to say this publicly, because it matters. We're talking about municipal councils and school boards across Ontario. After the way the provincial elections went earlier this year, it seems more urgent now to pay attention to these things.

Comments

[mtbc]

You're right, people underestimate the importance of the more local electoral stuff, good for you.

[dewline]

I'm particularly worried about the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, as I suspect there's an unofficial, semi-covert "slate" of anti-trans candidates in position. Look up "Chanel Pfahl", for example. She's running in Zone 8, my OCDSB district. Selling "Unwoke"-branded clothing on her Twitter account. There are others...and yes, these are Canadians, heeding Steve Bannon's advice to go after every office you can be voted into up here, as in the States.

[moonblossom]

I'm voting.... but for whom I have no clue. I am Liberal... so...