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16th
OCT 2008

Dewar coasts to easy win in Ottawa centre

Posted by cwaddell under Election 2008, Election 2008 Student articles

Sarah Hartwick, Sara Caverley and Bahador Zabihiyan

After a day where Canadian voters granted the Conservatives a new minority government, Ottawa Centre residents gave NDP incumbent Paul Dewar an easy second victory. Read the details in Centretown News Online.

Sarah Hartwick, Sara Caverley and Bahador Zabihiyan are students at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

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15th
OCT 2008

Young love

Posted by padams under Election 2008, Election 2008 Campaign strategy, Election 2008 Student articles

Matthew Pearson

Nepean-Carleton

Voters in Nepean-Carleton are sending Conservative Pierre Poilievre back to the House of Commons for the third time before his 30^th birthday.

Poilievre, dressed in a sharp navy blue pin-stripe suit, marched into a victory party at a Barrhaven country club behind a bag-pipe player. His 120 or so supporters chanted “Pierre, Pierre” as the 29-year-old meandered his way to the front of the room with his girlfriend, Jenni Byrne, at his side. Read more…

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15th

Love’m or hate’m

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Monique Muise

Ottawa West-Nepean

Whether they love him or hate him, Canadians are likely in for a lot more interesting sound bites from the House of Commons courtesy of outspoken Conservative MP John Baird.

The environment minister and former President of the Treasury Board claimed the hotly-contested riding of Ottawa West-Nepean last night by a significant margin over Liberal candidate David Pratt – a one-time Liberal cabinet minister. With 200 of 254 polls reporting a little before 12:30 a.m., Baird had 17,607 votes to Pratt’s 14,696. Read more…

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15th

Naked politics

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Amanda Truscott

Saanich-Gulf Islands, British Columbia

A tight race in Saanich-Gulf Islands ended with Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn holding onto his seat by 2,621 votes, fewer than the number won by a candidate who had dropped out of the campaign.

NDP candidate Julian West’s resignation came too late for his name to be removed from the ballot, and he received 3, 667 votes. Conservative incumbent Lunn got 27,988 votes, and Liberal Briony Penn got 25, 367. Green candidate Andrew Lewis received 6, 732 votes.

Green project seeks to engage youth

Posted by cwaddell under Election 2008, Election 2008 Student articles

Sara Caverley

Colourful chalk messages are popping up all over the Ottawa Centre riding to recognize homes and businesses that are taking measures to promote a healthy environment. Read the details at Centretown News Online.

Centretown News and Centretown News Online are publications of the students at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

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14th

A strong sense of community

Posted by cwaddell under Election 2008, Election 2008 Student articles

Sarah Hartwick

Any candidate looking to get elected this year in Ottawa Centre should have a strong community connection, says David Blaine, president of the Centretown Citizens’ Community Association. He says his group wants an MP who will stand up for Centretown in Parliament. Read the details at Centretown News Online.

Centretown News and Centretown News Online are publications of the students at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

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14th

Candidates ham it up

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Sarah Hartwick

Ottawa Centre federal candidates gave a rare performance at Thursday’s debate in Glebe Collegiate – rather than spending the night clawing each other’s throats, as is often the case among their respective leaders – the local MP hopefuls held a lighthearted, often pleasant discussion. Read the details at Centretown News Online.

Centretown News and Centretown News Online are publications of the students at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

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11th
OCT 2008

Health care silence

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Kristen Cucan

When Joan Roseboom answers the phone at the doctor’s office she works in, she’s often taking calls from people desperately looking for a family doctor, and almost every time, she has to turn them away.

“Every day I get requests from people who are almost begging me to take them as patients and we’re absolutely full up,” says Roseboom, a medical secretary for a family practitioner in Ottawa. Roseboom describes how many will even break into tears over the phone when she tells them they can’t accept them as patients.

Searching for doctors

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Kate Scroggins

When Michelle Desrosiers felt a dull ache in her neck, she cringed. It wasn’t so much the pain she experienced when she tried to move her head, as it was the thought that she would have to drive about 40 minutes to the nearest hospital to get it checked.

But Desrosiers knew it was her only option.