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Charlotte-Campobello's new dawn
Published Friday September 24th, 2010
Election: With incumbent Tony Huntjens retiring, the field is wide open for five new candidates
Derwin Gowan
Telegraph-Journal
ST. STEPHEN - Candidates soliciting support in Charlotte-Campobello face a challenge.
Early in September they campaigned through a heat wave, then a hurricane. Temperatures moderated but, now, people worry more about back to school. Who has time for an election?
Green leader discusses health-care concerns
Published Friday September 24th, 2010
Leader Jack MacDougall proposes community health centres
by Meg Edwards
Times & Transcript staff
SACKVILLE - Green Party Leader Jack MacDougall and Tantramar riding candidate Margaret Tusz-King held a news conference yesterday at the Sackville offices of party supporter Dr. Allison Dysart.
Before the conference had officially begun, an audience member had already asked if Dysart was taking patients, which led directly to the discussion of the dearth of doctors in the province.
"40,000 people do not have access to the health-care system," said MacDougall, adding that in many cases people need care but not necessarily a physician.
Leaders play political version of deal or no deal
Published Friday September 24th, 2010
By HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN
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Was there a deal or wasn't there?
Green party Leader Jack MacDougall said there was an agreement among the five parties fielding candidates in this provincial election that if all five weren't invited to the leaders' debates, none would participate.
"Fundamentally, there was a handshake agreement unanimously supported by the five parties ... so we talked about honesty. My word is good and yet they broke an all-party agreement," MacDougall said.
"We agreed that we wanted all leaders invited and to participate in order for any debate to take place ... We had a meeting specifically to deal with this CTV debate.
"I'm clearly telling you that we had an agreement and the agreement was broke. I think it was a crystallizing moment in this entire debate," MacDougall said. "We did that for all debates ... All three of them compromised their agreement to get on the Steve Murphy show. Their principles stopped at the point of mild inconvenience."
Lire la suite : Leaders play political version of deal or no deal
Why vote Green?
To the Editor of the Sackville Tribune-Post:
I don’t usually declare my political view publicly, but for the first time I feel an urgent need to speak up. That is because I believe the current provincial election actually offers us a chance to make a real difference with our vote. Up till now, I have been frustrated to the point of cynicism by politics in this province. In the past, while we have been served well by excellent individuals (Peter Mesheau comes to mind), the two-party political system in Fredericton is so depressingly mired in old-time corruption and cronyism that for many of us our vote has come to seem almost meaningless. And while I don’t think this situation will change overnight, I do believe that this time around, we actually have both a candidate and a party that are equally worthy of our vote. Those who attended last Thursday’s all-candidates debate will know that the unexpected “fourth” choice, our very own town councillor, Margaret Tusz-King, who is running for the Green Party of New Brunswick, is by far and away the best choice for those of us truly concerned about the long term future of our community. As one of my neighbours put it, “after that debate, you feel almost a moral duty to vote for Margaret and the Green Party.”
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