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June 5, 2014 | 80 pages
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‘Winning’ on the mighty Carp. – Pages 32-33
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Carp native wins prestigious fashion award. – Page 36
News - The four candidates vying for residents vote in Carleton-Mississippi Mills were grilled with a number of tough questions Monday at the Stewart Community Centre in Pakenham. The all-candidates debate was hosted by the Arnprior Region and Lanark chapters of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. Moderator Andrea McCoy-Naperstkow, president of the Lanark Federation, posed questions on hydro, Almonte’s Enerdu project, rural/farming taxes and more to local candidates John Hansen of the New Democratic Party, Liberal Rosalyn Stevens, Progressive Conservative Jack MacLar-
en and Andrew West of the Green Party. The first question, one that has gained a lot of traction during the election was, what will your party do to rein in the escalating hydro rates? Stevens admitted that it was a question on everyone’s mind and she thinks people need to look at hydro from a very wide scale perspective. “When our government took office, we took over a broken system,” said Stevens. “The PCs had tried to privatize hydro and messed that up big time and we were left with a $12-billion debt that they tried to tack on to your bills as the debt retirement charge.” She said her party is trying to pay that off two years earlier than planned, saving
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They want to be your MPP: Facing off at a local Federation of Agriculture-sponsored allcandidates forum in Pakenham Monday, from left, are NDP’s John Hansen, Liberal Rosalyn Stevens, Progressive Conservative Jack MacLaren and Andrew West of the Green Party. taxpayers $70 right away. “We are working hard to make sure we have a system that will support our needs,” added Stevens. “Sometimes that means investing in infrastructure, but we have the plan to mitigate cost as well.” MacLaren had three key ideas when it came to hydro:
stopping the Green Energy Act because he thinks “we cannot afford it,” ending the Ontario Power Authority and privatization. “We would look at breaking up and privatizing Hydro One because Hydro One is an unaccountable government agency. It’s out of control and very expensive,” said Ma-
cLaren. “There are other private electricity distributors in Ontario that are small companies like Mississippi Power in Almonte ... We should look at the idea of breaking up Hydro One, privatizing, creating competition and lowering prices.” See CANDIDATES Page 2
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Young Eagles event aims to inspire love of flying. – Page 41
News - An avid cyclist has thrown his hat in the ring to become West CarletonMarch’s next city councillor. Brendan Gorman, the 1996 nation junior cycle champion, is interested in making the city more bike-friendly, growing
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transit, and protecting the environment. “I have a lot of ideas, but my first priority is to listen and hear more about the issues that concern people in this neck of the woods,” Gorman said. “I prefer the non-partisan aspect and listening to people. I have no plans for higher levels of government or anything like that.” He often comes back to cycling on
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various topics, even mentioning how he plans to campaign door-to-door by bike. Top of mind for many in Ward 5 is roads: paving, plowing, speeding and all else roads-related. Gorman cycles the entire ward and knows which have been paved recently and are in dire need. He jokes that some of the dirt roads are better to cycle than the paved.
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But one of his main goals is to bring more cyclists out to West Carleton. He lauds the health and lifestyle aspects, but also the tourism. Cyclists have money to spend at area restaurants and take note of investment opportunities they may revisit by car. See I’M NOT Page 3
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