Junction Triangle

Municipal Election Issues Forum
Boo Radley’s
1482 Dupont Street
(1 Block East of Symington)
Thursday, August 26
8-10 p.m.

The following meeting announcement was sent by the organizers:

Meet and Greet your Ward18 Candidates

Ana Bailao, Kevin Beaulieu, Doug Carroll, Frank De Jong, Abdirazak Elmi, Nha Le, Joe MacDonald, Mohammad Muhit, Kirk Russell, Hema Vyas,

The following meeting announcement was passed on to us by the organizers. You can download a copy of the flyer here (395KB PDF file).

The next DIGIN meeting takes place on Tuesday June 8 2010, 7:00PM in the Ambrico Room of the Wallace-Emerson Community Centre, 1260 Dufferin St. (at Dupont).

DIGIN meetings are a great place to meet other residents and find out more about what is happening in the general Bloor-Lansdowne area. There are often representatives from Councillor Giambrone's office to provide updates about local issues and other news.

Keeping with the recent municipal election theme at DIGIN meetings, this month's agenda will focus on another one of the candidates. I will update the posted agenda if I hear of any changes:

AGENDA
DIG IN Monthly meeting
Tuesday June 8, 2010
Meeting starts promptly at 7pm

Items for Discussion

1. A conversation with Ward 18 candidate Ana Bailão
2. Looking for person to help update DIG IN website
3. Trillium grant update
4. Jack Fava - suggestions for Sept. mayoral candidate debate

Any further items to be added?

Adjourn 8:30pm
DIG IN will adjourn for the summer and resume meeting on Sept. 8, 2010.

After the DIGIN meetings, many people often re-convene at a local restaurant or pub for a post-meeting social.

Here are my notes from the May 19 2009 Ward 18 All Candidates Meeting, held at Casa da Madeira on Dupont St. in the Junction Triangle. These notes are just an attempt to capture what the candidates said, and how they responded to questions. I'm keeping personal opinion out of it for now, although I might follow up with some of that in the comments. Apologies if it's long-winded, but I tried to scribble down as much as I could. I obviously missed many things that were said too.

Thankfully, the professional reporters were there too. For a much better writeup of this meeting, check out the article in The Villager: Ward 18 candidates introduce their campaigns. Local blog The Bloordale Press also has a writeup, including some video from the candidates' opening remarks.

I'd love to hear other peoples' opinions and reactions to this meeting. And of course, if I made any mistakes in these notes, please feel free to correct me. I also encourage the candidates to post any followup comments here too.

All eight registered Ward 18 candidates were present: Ana Bailão, Kevin Beaulieu, Frank de Jong, Nha le, Kirk Russell, Jack Triolo, Hema Vyas, and Ken Wood.

Photo by Vic Gedris, 2010-05-18. Full event writeup here.

Photo by Vic Gedris, 2010-05-18. Full event writeup here.

Photo by Vic Gedris, 2010-05-18. Full event writeup here.

Photo by Vic Gedris, 2010-05-18. Full event writeup here.

Photo by Vic Gedris, 2010-05-18. Full event writeup here.