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February 6, 2025 • Volume 39, No. 18
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Provincial election in high gear By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star
The ‘Photo Booth’ was back for another year at the Queenswood Heights Winter Festival on Feb. 1. PHOTO SUPPLIED
It’s hard to believe that the provincial election is already in its second week...which leaves just 21 days before Ontarians head to the polls to vote in a snap election called by Premier Doug Ford on Jan. 29. As of press time, there were only three declared candidates running in Orléans – Liberal incumbent Stephen Blais, PC candidate Stéphan Plourde, NDP candidate Matthew Sévigny and Green Party candidate Michelle Petersen. Blais was first elected to Ontario Legislature in a byelection in 2020 after serving as a city
councillor for Cumberland Ward from 2010. He was one of just eight Liberal MPPs who were reelected in the 2022 General Election. While a member of the Liberal caucus, he has served as the party’s critic for Municipal Affairs and Housing, Education, Economic Development and Trade and more recently as the Liberal critic for Labour and Skills Training. Among his accomplishments as an MPP was securing over $100 million for four new schools, one for each local school board in Orléans and two school additions at Collège catholique Mer-Bleue and École élémentaire publique Notre-Dame-des-Champs. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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