This document contains links to videos of the District 2 Council Candidates forum on September 25 in Musquodoboit Harbour. The Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce & Civic Affairs sponsored this forum. Three of the four candidates were present. Sydnee McKay was unable to attend, but sent a statement that a Chamber member read in the Opening Statements section. The moderator changed the order for answering each question, and the answers below follow that order.
We know that people are busy, and may not have time to sit down and listen to a single video of an entire 90-minute debate. There is a separate video for each question, so you can mix and match to your heart's content. You can listen to all the answers from a single candidate, or only listen to the question or questions you're most interested in. We hope this format makes it easier for you to focus on what you want to know about the candidates for the District 2 Council seat.
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There wasn’t a free seat in sight on Saturday afternoon at the “Thanksgiving Sit-down Dinner" put on by the Musquodoboit Harbour Lions Club and the Eastern Shore Food Bank. The parking lot filled early, and there dozens more cars parked along the road.
Inside, there was turkey with all the fixings, capped off with a delicious piece of pumpkin pie. In the invitation to the event, the Lions said they hoped people would “bring your friends and family from all over the community;" from the looks of the crowded room, that’s exactly what people did.
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We asked candidates for the African Nova Scotian Member of the Halifax Regional School Board to introduce themselves and to answer two questions. We received replies from the two challengers. The incumbent, Melinda Daye, let us know that she was unfortunately not able to make our deadline, but that she felt that voters were familiar with her record in the position. We asked candidates to keep their questions to 200 characters or less, and offered them additional space on our election website page, You will find extended versions of Marcus James’ answers on this webpage after the text of the printed article.
(Each regional school board in Nova Scotia has an African Nova Scotian representative elected to the board by African Nova Scotian electors (an African Nova Scotian or the parent of an African Nova Scotian) in the candidate’s district.)
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We asked candidates for the Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincal Representative to tell us about their background and to answer a question about the École Beaux Marais. They had the option of answering in English and French.
According to the Nova Scotia School Board Association, candidates for the Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial (CSAP) must:
“ be an entitled person as defined in the Education Act. This includes an individual:
- whose first language learned and still understood is French;
- who received Canadian primary school instruction in a French first-language program;
- who is the parent of a child who is receiving/received Canadian primary or secondary school instruction in a French first language program.”
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Preliminary Election Results for the Shore; Hendsbee Wins Re-election
This page also contains written answers to questions from the candidates for HRM District 2's City Council Seat, profiles of 3 of the 4 candidates for Council, video coverage of the September 26th Council candidate debate in East Preston, answers from candidates for the African Nova Scotian School Board Member, and answers from candidates for the Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincal Representative. .
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We sent the questions below to the four candidates for the HRM District 2 City Council seats. We asked them to keep their replies to 200 characters for the print edition of the paper, and unlimited space on our website For the print edition, we edited answers beyond this 200 character limit to fit. If you want to read the candidates' complete answers, then go to this document, where you will find their unedited answers.
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By Richard Bell
(September 20) The grassroots group Save Rural HRM won an unexpected short-term victory at their protest rally at Halifax City Hall Tuesday afternoon. More than 100 people from at least 5 different Council districts showed up to express their anger at how the Mayor and Council were abusing the rural residents of HRM. MLA Kevin Murphy supplied a bus that brought more than 30 people from the Musquodoboit Harbour area.
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The first debate of the 2016 municipal election in District 2 took place on Tuesday night, September 13, at the East Preston Recreation Centre. Three of the four declared candidates were there: left to right below, Councillor David Hendsbee, Shelley Fashan, and Gail McQuarrie.
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