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The Hamilton Spectator ran a story on the front page about the nominated candidates in the Spec's readership area. The three major parties each have a full slate in this area -- not a surprize, given that the two opposition party leaders are from this area. In case the link gets delinked, the link within the story to the pdf of the pictures and three-line profiles of candidates can be found here.
Candidate in Etobicoke Lakeshore... Dionne Coley (who ran for TDSB in october in Scarborough i think)
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/elections/article/1028496--new-democrats-nominate-candidate-to-take-on-broten
What surprises me is that "The riding association canvassed "extensively" in the riding to find a candidate... In the end, only Coley put herself forward for nomination"
Really? this was once the riding of Ruth Greer (sp)... we had a good candidate federally (michael Erickson i believe) no star name, but no local candidate? (i'm big on candidates should live in their ridings which i'm glad to see Dionne will/would move)
FYI: Michael Erickson didn't actually live in Etobicoke-Lakeshore either. Its true that this area was once somewhat of an NDP stronghold but that was before redistribution moved the riding boundaries much further north to take in a lot of very inhospitable territory. I could probably only become NDP-winnable if the Liberals collapsed and the NDP was able to get the non-Tory vote coalsce behind it there - we are probably still one election away from that at the provincial level.
Thanks for clearing that up, not a huge fan of that cause i'd rather a candidate who isn't a "star" but knows the community, lives and breaths it then a planted one.
It looks like Etobicoke North is in the same boat; used to be strong for the NDP, hurt by redistribution and would require a liberal crash.
No, hurt by demographics and the wholesale co-option of the ethnoburban vote by the Liberals. Which means, however, that in the "Rathika" era, it could well be on-radar again...
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David Miller in 2015 (federally)?
David Miller has no ties to Etobicoke - if he ran federally I'd rather see him run in Toronto Centre.
Closed for length.