Tonight at 9.00 P.M. is the mayoral debate we’ve been waiting for here at Spacing Ottawa.
Leveraging the interactivity of social media and focusing on youth and the arts, it will be hosted by the versatile bloggers from Apartment 613. Here’s a snippet from their description of the event:
Apartment613 and the Institute On Governance are doing their small part to put the municipality to the forefront by organizing a mayoral candidates’ debate, set to take place on Tuesday, October 5th at 8 p.m at the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage. A collaboration between the blog, the Institute On Governance, the National Arts Centre and RogersTV, the debate will be a live, in-person and bilingual event featuring current mayor Larry O’Brien and candidates Andy Haydon, Jim Watson AND Clive Doucet. If you can’t make it in person, the action will be televised on Channel 22 and streamed live on the web.
Thanks to our CityVote co-editor Ian Capstick and his team at MediaStyle you can also follow the LiveBlog from the event right here at Spacing Ottawa. The mayoral candidates and the moderators will be taking your questions from twitter using the hashtag #ott2010 as well as responding to questions for them posted to YouTube; the LiveBlog window above is where the whole stream comes together as it happens.
Click in the window and leave your email address and you’ll get a reminder message about the debate up to 15 minutes before it begins.
3 comments
I would love to know what Spacing readers thought of the debate!
I liked what I saw. Typical stuff from all candidates.
Stubborn Haydon.
Monotone Watson
Candide Doucet
Sneaky O’Brien
I think though, as the Citizen mentioned, Doucet was the one with the clearest vision for Ottawa.
On an other note, I really like what Charlie Taylor had to say to the SYTYCM debat tonight about mixed-use zoning and transportation.
Last year my taxes went up. Where do the candidates think they are going to get the money to pay for all their big ideas?
We are coming out of one of the largest recessions in history. We don’t need to take on more government debt that you and I have to pay for.
I wish there was a simple email address that i could have sent my questions to.
Clive Doucet sounds like the most fiscally conscious candidate to me.