Council candidates get their say
Ottawa voters are not without choices in this year's municipal election, with a record 20 mayoral candidates running and 109 candidates vying for for city councillor positions across 23 wards.
What ward are you in? Check the city's website.
The ward battles feature four seats vacated by councillors who are either running for mayor — as is the case with Capital Ward councillor Clive Doucet — or retiring, as is the case with Rideau-Rockcliffe councillor Jacques Legendre, Knoxdale-Merivale councillor Gord Hunter and Kanata South councillor Peggy Feltmate.
Seventy-five of the 109 councillor candidates, including 14 incumbents, took the time to tell the CBC's Maggie Padlewska why voters should consider them on Oct. 25.
Ward 1 (Orleans)
Incumbent: Bob Monette
View video of candidate Jennifer Robitaille
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Ward 2 (Innes)
Incumbent: Rainer Bloess
View video of candidates Christopher Fraser, Roger Furmanczyk, Keith Jansa
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Ward 3 (Barrhaven)
Incumbent: Jan Harder
View video of candidates Jan Harder, Rustin Hollywood, Joseph King
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Ward 4 (Kanata North)
Incumbent: Marianne Wilkinson
View video of candidates Jeff Seeton, Lili Weemen, Marianne Wilkinson
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Ward 5 (West Carleton-March)
Incumbent: Eli El-Chantiry
View video of candidates Alexander Aronec, Eli El Chantiry, James Parsons
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Ward 6 (Stittsville-Kanata West)
Incumbent: Shad Qadri
View video of candidates Richard Eveleigh, Shad Qadri
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Ward 7 (Bay)
Incumbent: Alex Cullen
View video of candidates Alex Cullen, Oni Joseph, Shawn Little, Mark Taylor
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Ward 8 (College)
Incumbent: Rick Chiarelli
View video of candidates Ralph Anderson, Rick Chiarelli, Lynn Hamilton, Craig MacCaulay, Julia Ringma
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Ward 9 (Knoxdale-Merivale)
Current councillor: Gord Hunter
View video of candidates James Dean, Keith Egli, Fred Ennis, Syed Asghar Hussain, Paul Obeda, James O’Grady, Al Speyers, Rod Vanier
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Ward 10 (Gloucester-Southgate)
Incumbent: Diane Deans
View video of candidates Diane Deans, Lilly Obina, Leslie Saintilma, Wade Wallace
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Ward 11 (Beacon Hill-Cyrville)
Incumbent: Michel Bellemare
View video of candidates Michel Bellemare, O’Neil Brooke, Tim Tierney
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Ward 12 (Rideau-Vanier)
Incumbent: Georges Bédard
View video of candidates Mathieu Fleury, Andrew Nellis, Sriyan Pinnawala
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Ward 13 (Rideau-Rockcliffe)
Current councillor: Jacques Legendre
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Ward 14 (Somerset)
Incumbent: Diane Holmes
View video of candidates Don Fex, Diane Holmes, Susan Miller, Barkley Pollock
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Ward 15 (Kitchissippi)
Incumbent: Christine Leadman
View video of candidates Katherine Hobbs, Christine Leadman, Daniel Stringer
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Ward 16 (River)
Incumbent: Maria McRae
View video of candidates Ian Boyd, Michael Kostiuk, Maria McRae, Nadia Willard
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Ward 17 (Capital)
Current councillor: Clive Doucet
View video of candidates Bob Brocklebank, Isabel Metcalfe
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Ward 18 (Alta Vista)
Incumbent: Peter Hume
View video of candidates Clinton Cowan, Kevin Hogan, Peter Hume, Ernie Lauzon
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Ward 19 (Cumberland)
Incumbent: Robert Jellett
View video of candidates Robert Jellett, Patrick Paquette
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Ward 20 (Osgoode)
Incumbent: Doug Thompson
View video of candidate Mark Scharfe
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Ward 21 (Rideau-Goulbourn)
Incumbent: Glenn Brooks
View video of candidates Iain MacCallum, Bruce Webster
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Ward 22 (Gloucester-South Nepean)
Incumbent: Steve Desroches
View video of candidate Steve Desroches
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Ward 23 (Kanata South)
Current councillor: Peggy Feltmate
View video of candidates Marc Favreau, Aaron Helleman