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The woodlot in Elmira's South Parkwood subdivision attracted 35 volunteers who planted 150 trees Oct. 5. Some 850 dead, dying and hazard ash trees were logged and removed this past summer. Trees for Woolwich in-filled areas to help to regenerate growth. This was the group's last tree-planting event for the year. OBSERVER STAFF
Kitchener-Conestoga too close to call
Local riding had been leaning Conservative, but forecast shifts amid national changes with two weeks left in federal election BY STEVE KANNON skannon@woolwichobserver.com
With less than five percentage points separating the Conservatives and Liberals in the riding, Kitchener-Conestoga has become too close to call with less than two weeks before the federal election. In his latest seat projections
released Tuesday, Wilfrid Laurier University political scientist Barry Kay shifted the forecast for the riding, which had been leaning Conservative. That being the case, he still sees incumbent MP Harold Albrecht as likely to keep his seat. “I would certainly put the Conservatives ahead at this point ... in Kitchener-Conestoga.”
The close race is reminiscent of the 2015 election, in which Albrecht took 43.3 per cent, while Liberal challenger Tim Louis got 42.8 per cent. Over time, however, the nature of the riding is likely to shift, making it less likely to be as Conservative-friendly as it has been – Albrecht has held it since 2006 – due to demographic shifts, Kay
added. “The riding’s changing. There’s more and more suburbanization, and that’s likely to change ... how it votes,” he said, pointing to the Kitchener urban component gaining strength over the rural portions of the riding. That would be indicative of an already established divide between rural and urban parts of
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the country, with suburban areas – particularly the likes of the socalled 905 area around Toronto – providing swing votes. Nationally, Kay’s projections show a slight shift of one or two seats in favour of the Conservatives in the past week based on recent polling numbers, though the polls don’t yet reflect the teleELECTION | 04
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