All sixteen candidates involved in the 2026 Renfrew municipal election gathered at Ma-Te-Way on October 6th for an all-candidates meeting sponsored by the University Womens’ Club.
The event was literally standing room only as the venue had every one of the previously set-up chairs filled by audience members, with a healthy cohort of residents standing along the periphery and up on the room’s stage.
That means something.
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Every Canadian voter is familiar with the electoral system called “First Past the Post.”
They know it because they know how it works or they know it because they can see the results of it. Both of those positions may likely involve maintaining that practice, since it happens to be all Canadians have ever known. And they’d rather keep the familiarity of a failed system than attempt to do anything about it through change or modification.
First-past-the-post refers to the idea that, in an election, the person getting the most votes wins. Pretty straight-forward, easy to understand, something accepted for as long as Adam and that freaking snake in the garden.
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