Oak Bay News, October 17, 2012

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Trades boost Camosun College to build $30-million trades centre. Page A17

BUSINESS: Design suppliers hit target market /A6 COMMUNITY: Regiment celebrates 100 years /A12 SPORTS: Extra effort puts Grizz in front /A18

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

NDP, Liberals pick byelection candidates Murray Rankin gets nod for NDP; Liberals acclaim Paul Summerville Roszan Holmen News staff

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Super hero effort University of Victoria engineering students Quinton Calverley, left, Jacob Gulliver, Richard Huculak, atop the car, Jeff McNally-Dawes, Duncan McInnis and driver Michael Cox make a lap around Ring Road. UVic students, staff and corporate teams joined together to push the hollowed-out 1972 Volkswagen bug around Ring Road for 12 hours Sunday to raise funds for the United Way.

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New to political campaigning, Murray Rankin said he’s been drinking too much coffee and losing weight cycling around Victoria’s neighbourhoods. “I took nothing for granted – I was running scared the whole election,” he said Monday, a day after winning a first-ballot vote by NDP members to represent the party in the upcoming byelection. All his “good old-fashioned” door knocking paid off, helping Rankin earn 352 votes at the nomination meeting at the University of Victoria. His total was well ahead of runner-up Elizabeth Cull (96 votes), Charley Beresford (51) and Ben Isitt (36). Rankin said Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s leadership will be the main issue in the upcoming campaign. “People feel the increasing income inequality in our soci-

ety,” Rankin said. Also last weekend, the Liberal Party named lone nominee Paul Summerville its candidate by acclamation. Speaking to supporters at St. Matthias Anglican Church Hall on Saturday, Summerville targeted a secondary sewage treatment facility as a plant “we don’t need and don’t want.” Only the Liberal Party is against the project, he said. In his acceptance speech, he said the project will “vacuum up all the federal and provincial infrastructure dollars that could be used for public investment like storm sewers and 21st century public transit.” Summerville fingered the Harper Government for imposing sewage treatment. Rankin, however, pointed to the B.C. Liberal Party’s role in mandating the project. “Do people forget that?” he asked. While the NDP does not oppose sewage treatment, Rankin said there are many pertinent issues facing Victoria voters, such as the recently approved luxury yacht marina in the Songhees and homelessness. PLEASE SEE: Conservatives, Page A5

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