Waterloo Votes

Once all the has subsided, take an evening to think about .

7pm, 28th Oct., St. John's Kitchen, Victoria & Weber, Kitchener, Ontario.

How to Win Proportional Representation talk and discussion Are you sick of vote-splitting and strategic voting? Come to this talk and learn "How to Win Proportional Representation".

Knight Foundation is seeking ideas for election engagement. Wonder if our "20 Questions" online questionnaire would intrigue them?

How might we better inform voters and increase civic participation before, during and after... This is an open call for ideas. Elections represent the best opportunity for Americans to shape policy, reimagine their shared future and stay involved in the place where they live. We want to discover projects that make elections more fun and accessible for individuals to access and act upon inform…

today. Good luck to all candidates.

Video of last night's Mayoral town hall at Hauser Haus.

Courtesy Steve Sugrim Photography. Many thanks to Steve for providing this recording.

Candidates for Waterloo Mayor - Town Hall Meeting - Oct 23 2014 Lively meeting of the candidates for Waterloo Mayor - Dave Jaworsky, Dave MacDonald, Rami Said, and Erika Traub. Filmed at Waterloo Memorial Recreation Compl...

Town Hall meetings give you face-to-face contact with candidates for municipal office in the City of Waterloo, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and Waterloo Region District School Board. These are the remaining Town Hall meetings in October:

Ward 5: Wednesday, October 8 Lincoln Heights Public School, 270 Quickfall Drive, Waterloo.

Regional Council: Monday October 20 Hauser House (front), Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex, 1010 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo.

Ward 4: Tuesday October 21 Manulife Financial Sportsplex Rooms 207 – 208 (RIM Park) 2001 University Avenue East, Waterloo.

Public School Board: Wednesday October 22 Manulife Financial Sportsplex Rooms 207 – 208 (RIM Park) 2001 University Avenue East, Waterloo.

Mayor: Thursday October 23 Hauser House (front) Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex, 1010 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo.

Live tweeting, as staffing permits, at .

The advance polls open today.

If it increases the range of candidates and voter engagement, it's a good thing.

Hipsters, millennials & the precariously-employed welcome at City Hall! Thank you to the Jack Layton Fellows for today's guest post! The FCM Board of Directors launched the fellowship to celebrate Jack Layton’s legacy of engaging young Canadians in politics – read more about the program here. Today's guest blogger Claire Boychuk is one of the six 2014 Jack Layton Fellow…

The role of the VSC is to encourage people to run for municipal office.

These candidates have planned their campaigns, often for a year or
more, at significant expense of time and finances. They have marshalled
and inspired teams of volunteers. And they have withstood weeks of
questions meant to probe, meant to incite, meant to distract, and meant
to humiliate.

We suspect they are all true believers. There's no other reward
equivalent to this trouble. Other jobs offer more money and more power,
for fewer skills and with less hassle.

Vote today. It only encourages them.

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Regional Chair town-hall turnout was disheartening. If a tough question drops in a debate and nobody hears the answer, does it make a mandate?

Tomorrow night, the main event. Mayoral town-hall redux. Find the defects in your prefects, the griefs in your reeves, the "urgs" in your burghers. Be thorough for your borough, and say you roared for your ward. WMRC Hauser Haus, 7-9pm.

Public School Trustee candidates' town hall wrapped up with differences on experience, agreement on funding. Learned a little too late that this may have been the only event to quiz trustee candidates.

Tomorrow, Regional Chair candidates Milligan and Seiling square off. 99 Regina in Waterloo, 7-9pm.

Town-hall meeting for Public School Board Trustee Candidates. There are six candidates: Chagger, Farooqi, Fife, Hendry, Schell, Woodcock.

In response to questions, voters will need to choose (up to) three candidates, and cannot vote more than once for a candidate. Trustees represent Waterloo and Twp. of Wilmot.

October 19th, 7-9pm, Room 508, Regional Health Services Building, 99 Regina St., Waterloo.

Regional Councillor candidates' townhall was sparsely attended; strange considering one idea expressed, that Regional Council attends to $1.1billion, and has part-time councillors.

We're back on the 19th with Public School Trustee candidates; we'll issue a reminder the day before. Also, the 20th sees Regional Chair candidates square off, and the main event, the Mayoral rematch, takes place on the 21st.

Ward 7 meeting had some fireworks over LRT, traffic calming, lots of rebuttals but no clear winner. Next up: Regional Council candidates. Three people vying for two seats: who will be voted off the roundabout island? Adult Recreation Centre, 185 King South at Allen, 7-9pm.