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MacLeod holds blue Inside inside a wave of red COMMUNITY Nepean-Carleton celebrations subdued by Liberal majority Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com
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The inaugural Ride for Her raised $3,000 for ovarian cancer support in Ottawa. -Page16
News – For a riding that has proven a raucous, unapologetic defender of Progressive Conservative principles in the past, the mood was rather subdued at Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod’s campaign wrap-up party in Manotick last week. Chants of “Lisa, Lisa” petered out almost as quickly as they began when the fourtime winner arrived at the Black Dog Bistro restaurant on the village’s main drag on June 12. She smiled for the cameras, shook hands and accepted hugs, but her usual zippy personality was understated. “This wasn’t the result we wanted province-wide,” she said to about 100 supporters who had gathered to ring in her fourth term before
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Lisa MacLeod celebrated a bittersweet victory with supporters at the Black Dog Bistro restaurant on June 12.
Thompson to ask council to reject cell tower Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com
News - Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson will ask city council to refuse to support a proposed cell phone tower on Dozois Road. Telus applied to Industry Canada to get approval for the 35-metre tower via the Standard Land Company Inc. More than 750 people have signed an online petition against putting a tower near
St. Mark High School and Manotick Montessori School. The petition, launched by Andrea Woolner, lists concerns about the health effects of electromagnetic radiation emanating from communications towers. Locating a communications tower beside two schools, including a major high school, as well as a “high-end residential development” isn’t appropriate, Thompson said. “I think there is an insensitivity by those people who want to construct cell towers
– an insensitivity to the residents and the area that they want to set it up,” Thompson said. “There are places they could find that are away from the very intense residentialschool area.” City council will be asked to revoke its concurrence for the Dozois Road site during a meeting on June 25. Industry Canada gets the final say, but the federal ministry takes local concerns into consideration. See TOWER, page 5
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the age of 40. “We’re going to have to continue to fight this Liberal government ... and I’m the girl from Nepean-Carleton that’s going to continue to do what I’ve done since 2006.” MacLeod’s win was no shocker, unlike the provincewide results, which swept the Liberal government to an even stronger mandate after both opposition parties said they wouldn’t support the budget in May. The rural-suburban riding is truly blue – it has been since 1999 – so it’s no surprise that MacLeod finished more than 8,700 votes ahead of her Liberal opponent, Jack Uppal. After all, she’s done it before. MacLeod was first elected to the provincial legislature in a 2006 by-election to replace John Baird, which she won with a lead of 6,000 votes. Her margin increased in the 2007 election and again in 2011, when she surpassed a 15,000 vote margin over the second-place Liberals. The riding’s strong voice at the polls is nothing compared to MacLeod’s.