{"id":17358,"date":"2016-12-03T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.nmd.cc\/blog\/?p=17358"},"modified":"2016-12-11T22:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T22:12:37","slug":"verdun-election-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/verdun-election-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdun by-election heating up"},"content":{"rendered":"

My article on the Verdun by-election appears on the front page of the Suburban<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

Six of the eight candidates met with residents for breakfast last weekend\u00a0at Baobab (4800 Wellington).<\/p>\n

The crowds were bigger for Liberal\u00a0candidate Isabelle Melan\u00e7on and CAQ candidate and former Verdun borough mayor,\u00a0Ginette Marotte. Local Richard Langlais, who is running for the PQ and co-owns the aux purs delices bakery on de L’eglise with his spouse Micheline Lefebvre, also drew several people as did V\u00e9ronique Martineau for Qu\u00e9bec solidaire and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric D\u00e9nomm\u00e9 for Option nationale.<\/p>\n

David Cox, for the Green Party of Qu\u00e9bec, brought his daughter to the event and was greeted politely.<\/p>\n

David Girard for the \u00c9quipe Adrien Pouliot – Parti conservateur du Qu\u00e9bec, and S\u00e9bastien Poirier for \u00c9quipe autonomiste did not attend.<\/p>\n

I have recorded interviews for my Unapologetically Canadian podcast with\u00a0Isabelle Melan\u00e7on<\/a>, Ginette Marotte<\/a> and Richard Langlais<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are also stories about\u00a0Isabelle Melan\u00e7on<\/a>, Ginette Marotte<\/a> and Richard Langlais<\/a>\u00a0on this website.<\/p>\n

An interview with, and article about, V\u00e9ronique Martineau will appear later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My article on the Verdun by-election appears on the front page of the Suburban this week. Six of the eight candidates met with residents for breakfast last weekend\u00a0at Baobab (4800 Wellington). The crowds were bigger for Liberal\u00a0candidate Isabelle Melan\u00e7on and CAQ candidate and former Verdun borough mayor,\u00a0Ginette Marotte. Local Richard Langlais, who is running for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-that-matter","category-verdunposts","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4vY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17356,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/low-vote-threaten-democracy\/","url_meta":{"origin":17358,"position":0},"title":"Is Canadian democracy threatened when few people vote?","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"November 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Verdun citizens have a great opportunity to vote this week. 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