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Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Timiskaming- Cochrane’s new MPP is not dismayed by the prospect of a minority govern- ment. “I truly believe minority govern- ments can work,” said New Democrat John Vanthof in an interview on elec- tion night. Drawing on his experience in other organizations, “you first pick the issues that you can agree on and, from that, you build some trust, and you pick the ones that are harder.” The new MPP joins a strengthened 17-member NDP caucus at Queen’s Park, where the Liberals elected 53 members – one shy of the number needed to form a majority. When the government enjoys a big majority, Mr. Vanthof said southern Ontario carries more weight and “the North always tends to drift to the side.” “My personal view is, for the North, a minority would be just as good or better.” It could mean another election in the immediate future, he said. But he has found that the public is “election weary.” “They want our politicians to work together.” ISSUES When the legislature resumes, he said New Democrats will focus on Ontario-wide issues like health care and, as Northern Ontarians, respect for the region’s way of life and the re- sources that support it. But in light of economic concerns at home and abroad, he acknowledged the coming months won’t be fun for any government. “I’m a business person. I know you can’t keep spending more than you’re making.” But as a business person, he contin- ued, “I’m not afraid of long-term debt that actually builds things that make money or that serve people.” He said the NDP has not made rash spending promises. He believes the public will accept news they may not like “if they know that you’re being on the level with them.” He said he’s given little thought to his role in a future NDP caucus because he has been concentrating on winning the election. Asked if he’d like the role of agricul- ture critic, he said, “I would be happy to serve anywhere where Andrea Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 20ºC 15ºC 13ºC 11ºC 11ºC 11ºC 10ºC 8ºC Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Election coverage Inside A We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities. Vol. 106 – No. 35 www.northernontario.ca See “Vanthof welcomes” Page 6a MPP-elect Gordon Brock Speaker Editor DISTRICT Stability and familiar- ity seemed to be the catchwords as Temiskaming residents elected John Vanthof as their new MPP and re-elect- ed – albeit with a reduction in seats – Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal gov- ernment. In Timiskaming-Cochrane New Dem- ocratic Party candidate John Vanthof became Temiskaming’s new MPP win- ning over 50 per cent of the vote. Mr. Vanthof, who narrowly lost in the 2007 provincial election, tallied 12,632 votes or 50.1 per cent of the popular vote. The runner-up to Mr. Vanthof was Lib- eral candidate Denis Bonin with 6,532 votes or 25.9 per cent of the vote. The other candidates with the per- centage of their popular vote in brack- ets were: Progressive Conservative Randy Aulbrook with 5,337 votes (21.2), Northern Ontario Heritage Party can- didate Gerry Courville with 391 votes (1.5) and Green Party candidate Tina Danese with 312 votes (1.2). Across the province the McGuinty Liberals elected 53 members in the 107 seat legislature with 37 per cent of the vote. The Tim Hudak Progressive Con- Record low turnout Stability and familiarity as Vanthof landslides Vanthof welcomes minority government My personal view is, for the North, a minority would be just as good or better. - John Vanthof Cross-country Invitational Sports Front $1.25 per single copy (H.S.T. included) While election results continued to roll by on the television screen, John Vanthof thanked a crowd of about 60 supporters election night at the New Liskeard Golf Club during a short speech. He handily won the race with 50.1 per cent of the popular vote. (Staff photo by Steven Larocque) See “Stability and familiarity” Page 12a THE TEMISKAMING SPEAKER

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Diane JohnstonSpeaker ReporterTEMISKAMING SHORES – Timiskaming-Cochrane’s new MPP is not dismayed by the prospect of a minority govern-ment.

“I truly believe minority govern-ments can work,” said New Democrat John Vanthof in an interview on elec-tion night.

Drawing on his experience in other organizations, “you first pick the issues that you can agree on and, from that, you build some trust, and you pick the ones that are harder.”

The new MPP joins a strengthened 17-member NDP caucus at Queen’s Park, where the Liberals elected 53 members – one shy of the number needed to form a majority.

When the government enjoys a big

majority, Mr. Vanthof said southern Ontario carries more weight and “the North always tends to drift to the side.”

“My personal view is, for the North, a minority would be just as good or better.”

It could mean another election in the immediate future, he said.

But he has found that the public is “election weary.”

“They want our politicians to work

together.”ISSUES

When the legislature resumes, he said New Democrats will focus on Ontario-wide issues like health care and, as Northern Ontarians, respect for the region’s way of life and the re-

sources that support it.But in light of economic concerns at

home and abroad, he acknowledged the coming months won’t be fun for any government.

“I’m a business person. I know you can’t keep spending more than you’re making.”

But as a business person, he contin-ued, “I’m not afraid of long-term debt that actually builds things that make money or that serve people.”

He said the NDP has not made rash spending promises.

He believes the public will accept news they may not like “if they know that you’re being on the level with them.”

He said he’s given little thought to his role in a future NDP caucus because he has been concentrating on winning the election.

Asked if he’d like the role of agricul-ture critic, he said, “I would be happy to serve anywhere where Andrea

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Gordon BrockSpeaker EditorDISTRICT – Stability and familiar-ity seemed to be the catchwords as Temiskaming residents elected John Vanthof as their new MPP and re-elect-ed – albeit with a reduction in seats – Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal gov-

ernment.In Timiskaming-Cochrane New Dem-

ocratic Party candidate John Vanthof became Temiskaming’s new MPP win-ning over 50 per cent of the vote. Mr. Vanthof, who narrowly lost in the 2007 provincial election, tallied 12,632 votes or 50.1 per cent of the popular vote.

The runner-up to Mr. Vanthof was Lib-eral candidate Denis Bonin with 6,532 votes or 25.9 per cent of the vote.

The other candidates with the per-centage of their popular vote in brack-ets were: Progressive Conservative Randy Aulbrook with 5,337 votes (21.2), Northern Ontario Heritage Party can-

didate Gerry Courville with 391 votes (1.5) and Green Party candidate Tina Danese with 312 votes (1.2).

Across the province the McGuinty Liberals elected 53 members in the 107 seat legislature with 37 per cent of the vote. The Tim Hudak Progressive Con-

Record low turnoutStability and familiarity as Vanthof landslides

Vanthof welcomes minority government

“ My personal view is, for the North,

a minority would be just as good

or better.”- John Vanthof

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While election results continued to roll by on the television screen, John Vanthof thanked a crowd of about 60 supporters election night at the New Liskeard Golf Club during a short speech. He handily won the race with 50.1 per cent of the popular vote. (Staff photo by Steven Larocque)

See “Stability and familiarity” Page 12a

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fundraiser on a rollThe $75,000 goal for the new wheelchair bus for englehart and district is coming along well, say committee members. To date $40,000 has been raised. That was further assisted by a corpo-rate donation from CiBC made Tuesday, september 27, at the englehart branch of the bank. staff and committee members at the cheque presentation are, from left, CiBC englehart branch manager Kathy falardeau, financial service representative Crystal roach, customer service representative (Csr) Casey Peddie, englehart and district Wheelchair Bus Committee chair June Pollock, Csr rebecca loranger, Csr Carol fawcett, and wheelchair bus committee trea-surer Vicki leroux. (staff photo by darlene Wroe)

darlene Wroespeaker reporterDISTRICT -- A district-wide simultaneous tabletop disaster exercise to practice response to an emergency was held Septem-ber 17 at Englehart High School, bringing together representatives of 13 municipalities, three hospi-tals, the health unit, police, ambu-lance and fire departments.

Sitting in an arrangement rep-resenting their geographic posi-tion in the district so they could practice working with their neigh-bours, the 21 organizations un-dertook an exercise simulating a severe winter storm that blocked roads, cut power, and cut com-munications. Working with what the organizations have in reality, they had an opportunity to see how well their emergency plans worked.

Municipalities from Larder Lake to Latchford participated.EYE-OPENER

For many it was an eye-opener.Englehart, for example, is now

applying for funding to purchase two generators and communi-cation backup systems. Supply agreements with a grocery store and fuel supplier are also needed. Other organizations discovered similar needs to tweak their emer-gency preparedness.

Community emergency man-agement coordinator Mike Trodd said a similar exercise could be held in two years.

Mr. Trodd helped plan a similar

diane Johnstonspeaker reporterTEMISKAMING SHORES – The lookout at the crest of the Highway 11 hill outside New Liskeard offers a stunning view of the Little Claybelt.

It is now also a permanent me-morial to a soldier who lost his life in Afghanistan.

A dedication ceremony for the Sergeant Martin Goudreault Memorial Park will be held this weekend.

Sergeant Goudreault, the 35-year-old son of Micheline and Aurel Goudreault of Temiskam-ing Shores, was killed by a make-shift bomb while on foot patrol

District-wide mock disaster had positive feedback

exercise at the International Plow-ing Match in 2009, and this event was a spin-off of that.

He said it is mandated for emer-gency response plans to be prac-ticed annually.

Emergency Management On-tario field officer John Stothers was available to help organiza-tions as they worked to deal with the mock disaster. Ontario Provin-cial Police Inspector Alex Ivanov and Mr. Trodd also assisted with training.

The event was then critiqued by the participants. “All of the feedback was very positive,” said Mr. Trodd. “I think it will happen again.”

Lookout park a memorial to fallen soldiersouthwest of Kandahar City June 6, 2010.

Nine days later, hundreds of people lined the streets of New Liskeard as his funeral proces-sion made its way to Belle-Vallée, where more than 500 mourners filled the Paroisse Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours.

On October 15, the public is invited to attend the dedication of the park named for Sgt. Gou-dreault.

“I think we should be honour-ing these people,” said Jim Gray-don, the area resident who pro-

posed the tribute earlier this year.He had not known Sgt. Gou-

dreault nor, initially, the soldier’s parents.

But he had been moved by his death in Afghanistan.

The idea came to him while driving to New Liskeard and “Highway of Heroes,” a song paying tribute to fallen Canadian soldiers, came on the radio. At the time, Canada’s plan to pull out of Afghanistan was also in the news.

The City of Temiskaming Shores endorsed the dedication

of the lookout, and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, which owns the property, quickly came on board.

“I’m proud to have been part of it,” Mr. Graydon said.

The ceremony begins at 2 p.m.But because of limited space

at the lookout, no parking will be permitted at the site.

Anyone planning to attend the ceremony is asked to park at the ministry’s lot on Rockley Road no later than 1:30 p.m.

Shuttle service will be provided to and from the park.

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From the day earlier this year that David Ramsay an-nounced he was ending his quarter of a century career as Temiskaming’s MPP, there seemed to be an un-derstanding that the October 6 provincial vote in Timiskam-ing-Cochrane would be New Democrat John Vanthof’s to lose.

This was based on Mr. Vanthof’s narrow loss to Mr. Ramsay in 2007 where he still collected 40 per cent of the popular vote and finished

second.Mr. Vanthof’s election night

landslide confirmed that school of thought. The fact he won the election handily with over 50 per cent of the vote shows an overwhelming mandate from the Timiskam-ing-Cochrane electorate.

Very few are surprised of his victory and its margin.

We congratulate John Van-thof and wish him the best as our new representative in the Ontario Legislature.

John Vanthof

Gordon Brock

Our year of elections is over and it ends with last week’s pro-vincial election results which saw John Vanthof become our new MPP and it also saw record low voter turnouts across the province and in our own riding.

Some thoughts:• Weatherwise the sunshine,

cloudless skies and warm above normal temperatures made it seem it should have seen a large turnout at the polls.

However, call it voter fatigue what with three elections in one year, not to mention four fed-eral elections in seven years, but in Timiskaming-Cochrane that voter turnout of 51.5 per cent was the lowest in memory of a Temiskaming riding at the federal or provincial level. Of course we’ve had some munici-pal elections in Temiskaming that have produced lower turn-outs than what was experienced October 6 and the voter turnout in our riding was still higher than the Ontario voter turnout of 49.2 per cent. In our riding there were no issues that seemed to

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engage the electorate and there was the widespread feeling that John Vanthof was going to win handily.

• The last time we had five candidates on a provincial bal-lot in Temiskaming was in 1990 and we saw in that election the fourth and fifth place finishers (respectively the Confederation of Regions Party and the Green Party) combine for a total of 17 per cent of the popular vote. It was said at the time will we ever see the fourth and fifth place finishers still collectively garner that much of the popular vote? This time our fourth and fifth place finishers (the Northern Ontario Heritage Party and the Green Party) collectively could barely manage 3 per cent of the vote in total. Which calls for the rhetorical question will we ever see a fourth and fifth place fin-

The re-election of Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals for a third term is a continuation of the trend in Canadian politics where voters are going for fa-miliarity and stability.

There is no swing to the right.

There is no “Orange Wave.”There is no left-right po-

larization and death of the “mushy middle.”

This past week voters in Prince Edward Island gave the ruling Liberals another majority government.

Voters in Manitoba did the same with their New Demo-cratic government – albeit with a drop in their popular vote.

In the Northwest Territories last week all but one of the in-cumbents was re-elected.

In May, federal voters pre-ferred the stability of a Con-servative government which had been ruling the country with a minority for the five pre-vious years.

In early November Sas-katchewan will have a provin-cial election where the ruling right wing Saskatchewan Par-ty is expected to be handily re-elected.

Uncertain economic times this past year have seen the Canadian electorate prefer political stability and eschew change, regardless of the rul-ing party’s political affiliation.

ishing candidates who together collected so miniscule a vote as they did during the 2011 candi-dates?

• A lot of times in politics it’s proving what you want with the same set of statistics and putting your own spin on it. For exam-ple, both the Progressive Con-servatives and the New Demo-crats provincewide can claim, correctly, that they made gains in terms of seats and popular vote, but they are still looking at a strong, albeit slightly dimin-ished, Liberal government.

• As the wise person who wrote the editorial to the left on this page notes about the theme of stability and familiarity in Cana-dian politics and not ideological trends, that can be said as well for Mr. Vanthof’s victory. His over 50 per cent of the popular vote shows his support came from not only all over the riding but all over the political spec-trum. It’s name recognition and familiarity and the projection of stability which is why Mr. Van-thof becomes Temiskaming’s 14th MPP.

Stable government

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c) Candidate’s political party

d) Voting against another candidate

e) Didn’t bother to vote

What influenced you the most in your decision to

vote in the October 6 Provincial Election?

a) Quality of local candidate

b) Quality of party leader

a) Majority government

b) Minority government

52%

48%

Do you hope the October 6 election results produce:

Dear Editor:The Little Claybelt Homesteaders Museum is think-

ing of having an exhibit about weather events in the area. If any of your readers have stories or photos of blizzards, windstorms, hail storms or floods that they would like to share with us, we would greatly appreci-ate it. We would copy photos and return them.

Stories could be mailed to the museum at Box 1718, New Liskeard, P0J 1P0, or by phone to (705) 647-4825, or by e-mail to [email protected].

Thank you for your assistance.Yours truly,

Margaret Villneff

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Continued from a front(Horwath, NDP leader) and her team would like me to serve.”

“But I’m a farmer,” he added

Vanthof welcomes minority government

with a laugh.On the constituency side,

he’s already begun making plans.

He will share office space

in Kirkland Lake with fellow New Democrat Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins-James Bay.

He hopes to make a simi-lar arrangement in Sturgeon

Falls with Nickel Belt New Democrat MP Claude Grav-elle.

“The idea is, you spend less money on offices and you put

more staff on the ground,” he said.

He said he’ll also establish an office in Temiskaming Shores.

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diane Johnstonspeaker reporterTEMISKAMING SHORES – For some, Monday is the start of the workweek. For others, it’s laundry day.

In Haileybury, it’s the opening of the weekly Neighbourhood Café.

For more than 20 years, volunteers have been offering a hot meal and an opportunity to socialize for anyone who may be hungry or lonely.

They serve 40 or 50 people of all ages each week. But that can rise to 70 and high-er for special occasions such as Thanksgiv-ing, when a traditional turkey dinner was served.

It has recently reopened for another year, its fourth in the community hall above the Haileybury arena. It will remain open until June.

Visitors can count on a hot dish, a veg-etable salad and a fruit salad, and desserts. There’s also a table of packaged baked goods that people in need can take home.

Cash donated by individuals, businesses and groups purchases food. Devost’s Valu-Mart and Chartrand’s Your Independent Grocer also donate food.

“It’s a good place to come if you’re a se-nior. You can come for free or you can do-nate,” said volunteer Judy Tinney.

Volunteers are issuing a special invitation to college students who often find their food

The neighbourhood Café in Haileybury served a traditional turkey dinner to celebrate Thanksgiving. Volunteers offer a hot meal on Mondays to anyone who drops by the Haileybury arena. among the volunteers are, back from left, Judy Tinney, dianne Plaunt, d’arcy Hearn, Mildred Boucher, randy Cardy, Carol Plante; front, from left, Myra McCarthy, Mary Monaco, Carol robinson, linda Watson, Jessica sauve, Barb Garvin. (staff photo by diane Johnston)

Café opens in Haileybury for another seasonbudgets are limited, she said.

Free wireless Internet access is also available at the location.

Meals are prepared by a volunteer corps of about 15, and served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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diane Johnstonspeaker reporterTEMISKAMING SHORES – Respect for the North’s way of life is among the “big issues” that New Democrats will be pushing at Queen’s Park, says Timiskaming-Cochrane’s new MPP.

“I think the NDP platform this time really appealed to North-erners,” said a victorious John Vanthof in an interview election night.

The 48-year-old dairy farm-er from Evanturel Township scored a decisive win. He re-ceived 12,632 votes, as many as the combined tally of his four opponents.

Mr. Vanthof greeted dozens of supporters at the New Liskeard Golf club shortly after 10 p.m. October 6.

“I didn’t win. We won,” he said to loud applause.

He thanked supporters “for every post you pounded, every call you made, every dollar you gave, every smile, every tear, every ounce of determination that you guys all did to help us regain a voice in this region.”

While the party banner that won the riding is the NDP’s orange, “we are orange, we’re red, we’re blue, we’re all from the North,” he said.

“I hope you all continue to work with each other and with me as a team.”EXPECTATIONS

He told the audience they can expect an MPP who will take on battles both big and small “and always stand up for you.”

Progressive Conservative candidate Randy Aulbrook

dropped by the celebrations around 10:30 p.m. to offer his congratulations.

“We ran a good clean cam-paign, all the candidates, and I’d like to congratulate them,” said Mr. Vanthof.

This was his second bid to represent the riding.

He came close in 2007, los-ing to long-time Liberal MPP David Ramsay by 640 votes. Mr. Ramsay did not seek re-election, and newcomer Denis Bonin, a teacher from Sturgeon Falls, represented the Liberals.

Mr. Vanthof was widely con-sidered the frontrunner in the race.

“Everybody said, ‘you’re go-ing to win this, I know you’re going to win this anyway.’ And we worked as hard or harder than last time,” he said.

Vanthof takes Timiskaming-Cochrane for the NDP

He was successful, he said, because of the NDP platform and “because we proved we work hard.”

Nor, he said, did he face a sit-ting cabinet minister as he had in 2007.

“David was and still is very well respected,” he said.

Over the past four years, he

said the public has grown more dissatisfied with the Liberal par-ty and government.

That he had remained active across the riding since 2007 was a factor, he acknowledged.

But he noted that he’s worked in the area for 20 years.

“I think it made a difference.”

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PC candidate randy aulbrook, left, dropped by John Vanthof’s election night party to congratulate the new MPP-elect for Ti-miskaming-Cochrane. (staff photo by steven larocque)

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Liberal campaign team

hopes Bonin will return

darlene Wroespeaker reporterDISTRICT – Timiskaming-Co-chrane Liberal campaign team members are hopeful October 6 provincial candidate Denis Bonin will return for another at-tempt at the position of MPP.

“It was his first time, and he is only 39, and he had a great com-petitor against him,” said cam-paign member Gaston Leduc. “The potential for the future is still there.”

Mr. Bonin spent the evening October 6 in his home commu-nity in Sturgeon Falls.

He said he and others with him were at that time just tak-ing in the results of the election which saw the Liberals regain their governing position, and locally saw New Democratic Party candidate John Vanthof win the seat.

“It was a great campaign and a great campaign team,” said Mr. Bonin. “We worked hard.”

He expressed concern with the low voter turnout for the provincial election, and said he wanted to try to understand why that occurred.

Mr. Bonin would not commit yet to another run at the position in the future.

“We’re going to take it in,” he said.

The campaign experience was great, he said.

“I’m used to travelling across the province. I started early this summer. I knew the distances.”

He said the challenge was to get the issues down in each community.

“It was a great experience. It’s a beautiful province. It was fun.”

Mr. Bonin is positive about the district and its position. There is a mining boom at this time. The district has resources. It has great highways, he said, and is a vast riding.

denis Bonin

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darlene Wroespeaker reporterDISTRICT -- Timiskaming-Co-chrane Progressive Conserva-tive candidate Randy Aulbrook commented on election night, on seeing that the Liberal Party will again form a government, that, “It is going to be a big hit for Northern Ontario.”

He said Premier Dalton McGuinty is saying it will be “more of the same.”

Mr. Aulbrook expressed con-cern for residents across the rid-ing in that light.

“They feel stretched and it will be more of the same,” he said. “This is not going to be good for our riding.”

Mr. Aulbrook, along with oth-er candidates, expressed concern about decreased voter turnout, even while Elections Ontario has attempted to make the vot-ing process easier.

He said there was confusion at one polling station at least where voters were being turned away because they were not at their assigned poll. As very new resi-dents, they did not have identi-fication with their residential address, and were being turned away because they couldn’t pro-duce the proper identification and residency.

Mr. Aulbrook said he was sur-prised by the number of calls he received from people who said they were not on the voters’ list and did not have a card.

“It irritates people,” he said.

He noted that income tax forms provide people with an opportunity to have their names on voters’ electoral lists. He also noted there was a municipal election in the fall of 2010 and a federal election in May, mean-ing the voters’ lists should be up-to-date.HUdAk

Early in the evening, Progres-sive Conservative leader Tim Hudak phoned Mr. Aulbrook to wish him well. Mr. Hudak is well respected by the local Pro-gressive Conservative riding as-sociation and members because he has frequently visited the rid-ing in the past two years.

Mr. Aulbrook had been cam-paigning since June when he took a leave from his job. He commented that his truck is pushing 20,000 kilometres add-ed onto it this summer.

He has focused on door-to-door campaigning, he said.

The resounding concern he

heard at the doors was regarding the cost of living, he said.

“It is hardest to talk to seniors at their door.” Often the seniors he met were struggling to keep their house, while working with a fixed income. The high cost of hydro and the approach of win-ter was concerning to them, he said.

“It was quite an experience,” Mr. Aulbrook commented of the campaign. “This was my first time as a candidate, although I have worked many campaigns.”

Mr. Aulbrook said of the North, “I always knew Northern Ontario was being shortchanged on some things.”COST OF LIVING

The Progressive Conservative Party produced a document they called Changebook North.

Mr. Aulbrook commended Mr. Hudak for the document “spe-cifically written for the North.” Mr. Aulbrook said, “I liked our platform,” adding, “We are dif-ferent. Our way of life is differ-ent.”

He commented, “It is almost at a tax revolt in this province.”

The main issue used to be health care, and while that is still a concern, the great concern is the cost of living, he said.

“In this case people are just having a hard time,” he said.

“People feel stretched and now it will be more of the same.”

Another thing he found was that in some areas he would knock on 50 doors and no one knew the name of their current MPP. “That was disappointing,” he said.

PC Aulbrook concerned about the future

randy aulBrooK

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Gordon Brockspeaker editorDISTRICT – Gerry Courville says of his experience of be-ing a candidate for the North-ern Ontario Heritage Party, “It was very interesting.”

His campaign netted 391 votes for 1.5 per cent of the popular vote and a fourth place finish out of five can-didates.

“It was very interesting. People are fed up with elec-tions as you can tell by the low voter turnout. (51.5 per cent in Timiskaming-Cochrane and 49.2 per cent of eligible voters across the province). It’s unfortunate so many people stayed home,” he said in a telephone inter-view with The Speaker elec-tion night from his home in Cochrane.

Asked to comment on the electoral scene across the province he said “I think (Progressive Conservative leader Tim) Hudak and (New Democratic Party leader An-

Gordon Brockspeaker editorDISTRICT – “Really?”

That was Timiskaming-Co-chrane Green candidate Tina Danese’s reaction election night when she was told over the phone her vote total was 235 votes, or 1.26 per cent of the popular vote.

The Toronto-based candidate said she was in a restaurant with her friends October 6 and the television showing election results only displayed the top three candidates in Timiskam-ing-Cochrane.

She ended up in fifth place with an unofficial vote total of 312 votes or 1.2 per cent of the popular vote.

In a telephone interview with The Speaker late election night, Ms. Danese was asked to com-ment on her election campaign.

“Well, considering it was my first time running and having being asked to run and entering very late and not being in the rid-ing I thought it was pretty good. If I plan to run again I would be more prepared and would be in the riding.”CRITICISM

Ms. Danese’s campaign was criticized in some corners of Ti-miskaming-Cochrane, not only for her being a parachute can-didate from Toronto, but for not having visited the riding once during the election.

“I tried my best with social media…. In my heart of hearts I wished I could have been in the riding but I didn’t have time. It was a lot of fun…. Part of it (the

criticism) I understand the frus-tration,” she said.

Not only did the Green Party not come close to electing any members on October 6, but their popular vote total fell sharply in the province from eight per cent in 2007 to a little less than four per cent this time.

“I’m surprised it declined and not increased. I found in Toron-to there was more recognition and support of the Green Party. It’s disappointing but I think the Green Party will continue to work hard. It’s not going to deter the Greens from continuing.”

Ms. Danese rejected the school of thought that says the Green Party should pool their resources into a few winnable races instead of fielding token candidates in all 107 Ontario ridings just to say they have representatives right across the province.

“Every riding should have the opportunity to vote for the Green Party,” she said. “It’s im-portant for the Green Party to be represented in every riding.”

Green candidate vows next time to run in riding

Heritage Party candidate eager to try again

drea) Horwath are both win-ners considering they increased their vote total.”

Mr. Courville said he “wasn’t surprised” as far as the Ti-miskaming-Cochrane results are concerned.

“John (Vanthof, NDP candi-date) knew (he was going to win) all the way along. He’s very popular.”

Asked if he would run again, he said, “I think so. One thing I heard during the campaign was we (the Heritage Party) weren’t going far enough. People would say to me ‘why should your party be going for a seat

in Queen’s Park. You should be pushing for a new province or a new territory.’ I heard that an awful lot.”PROTEST VOTE

Mr. Courville said if he was going to run again he would be “Pushing for a new province.”

He added “I also heard a lot ‘Why should I support the Heritage Party, a protest party, when we can vote NDP which is a protest party.’

“Maybe we’ll have an elec-tion in a year-and-a-half to two years maximum and in this rid-ing I will keep an eye on what John does.”

As an aside, the Heritage Party fielded a candidate in Kenora-Rainy River. Char-maine Romaniuk finished fifth out of five candidates with 210 votes or 1.0 per cent of the popular vote.

The party also fielded a can-didate in the Toronto riding of St. Paul’s. David Vallance fin-ished eighth out of eight candi-dates attracting 73 votes or 0.1 per cent of the popular vote.

Gerry CourVilleTina danese

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He served as an Evanturel Township councillor for a dozen years and headed the Temiskam-ing Federation of Agriculture for a decade.

He was a leading opponent of the Adams Mine project and a proposal to build an incinerator treating contaminated waste.

He was a director to the Dairy Farmers of Ontario when Par-malat Canada announced plans to close Thornloe Cheese, and worked to keep the plant open.CAMPAIGN wORkERS

Mr. Vanthof’s work prior to getting involved in partisan pol-itics would make other politi-cians jealous, said Bill McBain, his campaign manager.

The win “had a lot to do with the character of John,” he said.

At the same time, Mr. McBain said there’s “no question that the goodwill flowing out of the fed-eral election had an impact.”

He pointed to New Demo-crats’ success in other parts of Canada.

“I think people are voting for change,” he said.

Continued from page 8a

Vanthof takes Timiskaming- Cochrane for

the NDP

servatives were second win-ning 37 seats and 35 per cent of the popular vote. The third-place NDP led by Andrea Hor-wath won 17 seats and 23 per cent of the vote.

No other party nor indepen-dents were elected to the leg-islature.

The number needed to win a majority government was 54. The Liberals entered the cam-paign with 70 seats, the Tories had 24 seats and the NDP 10. At dissolution there were three seats vacant. This will be Ontar-

Stability and familiarity as Vanthof landslidesContinued from a front io’s first minority government

since 1985. CANDIDATES’ COMMENTS

Of his landslide victory Mr. Vanthof said on election night “I think the NDP platform this time really appealed to North-erners.”

Mr. Bonin said of his efforts “It was a great campaign and a great campaign team. We worked hard.”

On election night Mr. Aul-brook said of the results, “This is not going to be good for our riding.”

Mr. Courville remarked elec-tion night, “People are fed up

with elections as you can tell by the low voter turnout. It’s unfortunate so many people stayed home.”

For her part Ms. Danese said “Well, considering it was my first time running and having being asked to run and enter-ing very late and not being in the riding I thought it was pret-ty good. If I plan to run again I would be more prepared and would be in the riding.”VOTER TURNOUT

The voter turnout dropped in the riding and across the province to record low levels.

In Timiskaming-Cochrane

the Returning Office reported 25,204 voters did so out of a possible 48,931 electors for a voter turnout percentage of 51.5 per cent. That was a drop of about four per cent com-pared to 2007 and one of the lowest in memory.

Across the province it was a record low turnout with 49.2 per cent of eligible voters, or 4.1 million voters in Ontario exercising their franchise. The previous low mark was record-ed in 2007 when 52.8 per cent of the electorate showed up to vote.

WHirlWind Tour

Timiskaming-Cochrane lib-eral candidate denis Bonin is pictured here (left) on the day of the provincial election campaigning at the corner of Whitewood avenue and arm-strong street in new liskeard. He spent the day on a whirlwind tour across the riding greeting voters before heading home to sturgeon falls for election night. also pictured here are campaign team members serge Manseau (centre) and Martin Hacquard (right). (staff photo by darlene Wroe)

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60 years 60 ans ~

sue nielsenspeaker reporterTEMISKAMING SHORES — In a world sometimes filled with strife, students at Haileybury Pub-lic School (HPS) have taken on a peacekeeping role at their school.

Students in Katherine Lang-ille’s Grade 4-5 class are promot-ing a positive atmosphere in their classroom and around the school as peacekeepers.

Mrs. Langille said her class is fostering an ability to care for one another and are showing leader-ship and pride in themselves and their school since taking on the role of peacekeepers.

“The students are practicing

good citizenship, leadership and conflict resolution as peacekeep-ers,” she said.

She said her students are work-ing as a peacekeeping team and their motto is, “Let’s keep the peace.”

Students have a “peace card” and at the end of the day, if they’ve kept and protected the peace at the school, they can have their card stamped. Once 10 stamps have been acquired, the students are rewarded with their choice of coupon for a night of no home-work or free computer time said Mrs. Langille.

Students also made tie-dyed t-shirts to symbolize their peace-

keeping motto and later wrote a procedure for tie-dying t-shirts to kick off a procedural writing unit.

“The students are very excited and proud to wear their t-shirts as they “keep the peace”,” added Mrs. Langille.

She has noticed a number of positive spinoffs from her stu-dents’ peacekeeping roles which include the fact that her students’ efforts to keep the peace is having an effect on the entire school.

Students are being taught to be responsible at school and away from school. That might trans-late someday into their adult lives says their teacher.

Haileybury Public school students in Mrs. langille’s Grade 4-5 class are keeping the peace and enjoying the positive spinoffs of that role which include acquiring leadership and good citizenship skills. students wearing their tie-dyed shirts in the photo from the left in the back row are Jayson scott, nathan dumoulin, evan Brassard, alana Bromley, Veronic skerritt, Mason lovegrove, em-ily Martin-Beairsto and sydney Williams. in the front row from the left are Grace langille, Brock robinson, seth shearing, T.J. Gilmore, HPs teacher Katherine langille, Victoria Murray, dillan Green, ryan Brown and Courtney evans. (staff photo by sue nielsen)

Keeping the peace at HPS

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John James Hallworth

John James Hallworth died peacefully at the South Musko-ka Memorial Hospital in Brace-bridge on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at the age of 73.

Mr. Hallworth was a retired manager of Scotiabank.

He is survived by his wife Joyce Hallworth of Bracebri-dge; daughters Alison Blanchard (Henry) of Bracebridge, and Lori Braun (Chris of Toronto); grandchildren Ryan and Trent; and brothers Charles and Clif-ford.

Mr. Hallworth was prede-ceased by his brother David and sister Betty Junkala.

The family received friends at the Rotary Centre for Youth in Bracebridge on Saturday, Octo-ber 8, 2011, for a time of remi-niscence and fellowship.

As an expression of sympa-thy, memorial donations can be made to the Royal Victoria Hos-pital Foundation Rotary House.

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Jean-Paul (J.P.) Gagné

Jean-Paul (J.P.) Gagné died October 2, 2011 at the Temiskaming Hospital.

Married to Lise Gervais (Gosselin), Mr. Gagné was born in Earlton, Ontario, on August 6, 1950, to Ludger and Marie-Ange Gagné.

Mr. Gagné worked hard as a truck driver, welder and mechanic. He enjoyed work-

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ing in Ontario, Alberta and the Northwest Territories in the con-struction, paving and mining industries.

He most enjoyed spending time with his family, camping at Sutton Bay, and having coffee with friends at Tim Hortons.

Mr. Gagné is survived by his wife Lise Gervais (Gosselin); children Nicki (Victor) Galley and David Gagné; sisters Gisele (Roch) Auger, Louise Rivest, Denyse Anderson and Madeleine (Gerry) Levéillé; and stepchildren Nathalie Gervais (Steve), Lorie-Anne Gervais (Roger) and Eric (Krystal) Gervais. He was Pepère to Jonathan and Emma, Papi to Océanne and Leah. He will be sadly missed by numerous nieces, nephews and many other relatives and friends.

Mr. Gagné was predeceased by his parents and brother-in-law Jean-Paul Rivest.

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