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Gventer seeks NDP nomination for June election

1/13/2018

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- Hub staff
​Jan 8 2018
http://owensoundhub.org/news/4379-gventer-seeks-ndp-nomination-for-june-election.html

The Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP is set to nominate their candidate for the provincial election this spring.  Karen Gventer, who was the party's candidate in 2014, is seeking the nomination.
Gventer says she is bringing the message, "Enough is enough" to Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. She is concerned that farmers, students, youth, seniors, women, working people, indigenous people, and small business owners can no longer afford Liberal and Conservative governments.
"People in Ontario are concerned about the rising hydro rates, and concerned about the Liberal's shell game that doesn't really benefit us hydro users at all," says Gventer. "The Conservatives want to carry through with that disastrous plan they began in 1999. Only the New Democrats have a plan to put Hydro One back in public hands, where the costs can be kept down for hydro users and voters have a direct say."
Gventer also wants to promote the New Democrats' plans for Pharmacare. "I have a friend who had to make choices about buying food or paying for her needed medication. No-one should have to choose to get sick by not eating properly or get sick by not having their prescription medication. It doesn't have to be that way. It would save the health care system money – if people are able to fill their prescriptions, they will get better instead of sicker. People matter most. If this is done in other countries, New Democrats can certainly do it here."
Gventer works in health care, is involved in her union and the District Labour Council, and has volunteered as a youth soccer coach and with Fiddlefern Country Dancers. She has lived in the region since 1999, and she and her family currently live in South Bruce Peninsula. She previously ran for the NDP in the riding federally.
The Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound NDP Electoral District Association nomination meeting is scheduled for January 20, 2018 at 1:30 pm, at the Owen Sound Library. The public are welcome to attend; members must be signed up 30 days prior to the meeting to vote.

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We have a great speaker lined up to stir your political juices and set the tone for June…

1/13/2018

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MICHAEL VALPY began his journalism career at The Vancouver Sun, became a member of its editorial board and national political columnist. For The Globe and Mail, he has been a member of the editorial board, Ottawa political columnist, Africa correspondent, deputy managing editor and columnist on social and political issues.
He has produced public affairs documentaries for CBC Radio, written for Maclean’s, Elm Street, Shambhala Sun, Policy Options and Time (Canada) magazines, won three national newspaper awards (two for international reporting and one for the impact of children from dysfunctional families on the public education system) and been nominated for a fourth, co-authored two books on Canada’s Constitution -- The National Deal (1982) and To Match A Dream (1998) -- and one on Canada’s emerging generation of adults -- New Canada: Report on the Next Generation (2003). 

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound ONDP
Provincial Riding Association

Nomination Meeting

The meeting to select our candidate for the next provincial election will be held on:
Saturday January 20, 2018
1:30 pm


Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library
Library Auditorium 
824 1st Ave W, Owen Sound, ON N4K 4K4


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Bruce Grey Owen Sound NDP Nomination Meeting for our Ontario Election Candidate on January 20th, 2018

1/13/2018

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Since the 2015 federal election, the BGOS Electoral District Association has been active in the communities in this riding …
  • We supported the ‘We Own It’ movement of OPSEU in expressing opposition to the closing of Grey Gables.
  • We sent submissions to the federal government opposing free trade agreements like NAFTA that make it easy for corporations to sue countries over policies they think are hurting their profits.
  • We walked with community college faculty on their picket line when they went out on strike to end the precarious nature of their work.
  • We protested the usurious practices of pay-day loan companies and urged the government to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
  • We supported the good work of the Women’s Centre by Walking a Mile in Her Shoes and raising $1400.
  • We debated the Liberal government’s plans for workplace reform in the public forum in support of the efforts of the United Way of Bruce & Grey and in solidarity with workers in BGOS who are not making enough to live on.
  • We founded an active Youth Group, whose members are encouraging all of us to remember that it’s not too late the change the world.

And now we have another election to fight: June 7, 2018. Please join us and help pick our candidate …
January 20th at 1:30 pm at the Owen Sound Library.
All members paid up by December 20th are eligible to vote.
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