You are presumed to be honest and responsible without evidence to the contrary beyond a reasonable doubt… on the balance of probablilties you are justified by 51 % likelyhood.
The polling place on October 7th is championed by the local cenotaph and a citizen coming out after some business inside.
The next advanced poll for the local civic election is on the 14th. The general election is on the 17th. Polls are open both days 8am to 8 PM.
There are 8 choices for councilors to take six selections and colour in the circular icon with your choices up to six . There are two for the Mayor choose one. There are three for the school board; with five on the ballot.
Merritt School board
For the City of Merritt (School District No. 58 Electoral Area 2) general local election on October 17, 2026, there are 5 candidates running on the ballot for 3 School Trustee positions: * Stu Jackson * Justin Jepsen * Tim Manuel * Leroy Slanzi * Gordon Bruce Swan Voting Information Summary * Positions Available: 3 School Trustees (4-year term) * General Voting Day: Saturday, October 17, 2026
Always in an election mode. Thinking you wish the US election was over so we would have some rest for a few years.?
Well I hate to disappoint you but the United States is different then Canada. Yes, we can probably avoid most things in our politics for most of 4 years and only be committed to 6 weeks of some sort of rabbid attention. However, the United States is different. They determined when they made their constitution up that it would always have to be an election. There would be very little difference from regular days and campaign days because once settled in office it begins immediately again.
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We have a lot of US media here in Canada, so in some aspects we are afflicted by the politics in the United States more than we ought to. We chose “*Responsible government” over their style of Representative government because it would give us some break from constant politics. Do you wonder why it seems like your life is embroiled, well just look and how much time you spend considering issues that you’ve delegated to your elected officials to solve for us. Even diplomacy between Canada and the United States is delegated. Not seeing it? You my friend have been sold, something that you shouldn’t have bought,
Head in sand bad?…
Maybe not, you know the ostrich population goes on and on, what else do they do that gives them the ability to survive if not providing the stillness to a prey that should be fleeing. How else do you provoke attention that you shouldn’t deserve? I bet that you have experienced toxic conversations more often than you needed in the last few years, whatever happened to the saying ” not my circus, not my monkeys”?
Peace tower is ours
So we take note of who’s responsible in our community. Usually businessmen that are successful doctors that have good practices and surviving patients.Local counselors that did well at the local level.
Why can’t we pay attention to 6 weeks every 4 years? Elect people we can delegate and feel confident in and go back to our peace.
I think it’s because we’re baited to sell our peace at a paupers purse. When our peace as it was produced came without toxic troubled talk, but just good old responsible work. Borrowing trouble ⛈️ is a fools bargain.
You be wise and show calm and de-escalation wherever toxic and troubled politics. I want to see that value again.
PP
Thank you for considering my point of view, you can go back to your own monkeys now.
The provinces 162 municipalities had a healthy change of elected public servants for the 2018 election. There are 73 new mayors and 395 newly elected councilors a 47 and 48.8 percent change factor overall. Vancouver bucked the trend electing 16 of 21 new mayors to its municipalities.
The high level of turnover on Councils and Boards with each election was one of the motivating factors for the creation of the Local Government Leadership Academy in 2007. The academy’s mission is to provide local government and First Nations elected officials and senior administrators with comprehensive, timely and dedicated leadership development opportunities throughout their terms of office or employment in the interest of improving governance. The LGLA’s 2019 elected official seminars have been announced and once again will be made available in regions throughout BC.
For the full details on the 2018 local government general election, please visit CivicInfo.
Source UBCM
Regional directors:
There was a similar turnover for regional directors. Fifty-Seven Electorial area directors were new a 37.7% change.
Merritt BC changed 5 of 6 councilors and elected an incumbent councilor mayor.
On this Day: October 24th, 2003
The last commercial flight of the Concorde supersonic airliner.
Susan Roline was reelected Mayor of Merritt ,BCCanada on Saturday by a good margin garnering about 100 votes. Less then 2000 turned out to voters gave her a handy vote margin over her challenger former Mayor Bob Baird. He garnered some over 700 votes.
Shelly Sanders was not returned by one vote in favour of Alastair Murdoch who was. An upstart new comer North American Indian and former Hollywood set man Harvey Keys placed last and not elected, but managed about 400 votes: a good showing. All other incumbants were returned and Clara Norgaard a former Mayor was elected in place of Sanders.
The new sidewalk upgrade is nearing completion with some large stars placed in the beatification with bits of copper scattered with in.
Merritt was once known as the Copper Capital of Canada as a billion pounds of copper was mined at a local mine site.
One unconfirmed source said the copper came from Highland Valley Copper’s mine, the mine you can see from space, about 45 miles from here. Another thought they came from copper pipe, and a white hat didn”t know were but said they were manufactured in Vernon.
Kevin Griffiths
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