[Saint John, NB] | Municipal Election | Common Council

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Who would you like to see become the next members of the City of Saint John's common council?

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Multiple choice voting is allowed in this poll, but you can only vote once. 🗳 📊

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• Video Link

Unfortunate that the Human Development Council of Saint John doesn't allow playback on this website, but at least here's a direct link.

Not sure I'll watch this one in entirety, but I skimmed through it a bit, and could actually see Mohamed Elazab actually getting on council in Ward 2. He might lean a bit too much on his experience and knowledge of how things are done elsewhere in the world, but clearly, Saint John has a lot to learn from other cities and regions around the world.

I'm not sure I really agree with the entirety of his answer regarding the AI data centre, but I think he was smart to talk about the long term job implications of this project, and how Saint John needs to try and attract far more economically productive projects for the local economy than data centres.

I guess questions on the data centre will be expected in all the subsequent forums? (even though the data centre is specifically a Ward 1 proposal)

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Tomorrow is election day. For those who need a last minute refresher on the candidates running, here's a link to the candidates guide from Saint John Today:

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From Civic Tech Saint John

🗳 #SJVotes26: Community Insights 🏙




To help strengthen civic engagement ahead of the upcoming election in Saint John, Civic Tech Saint John launched an online survey through social media to identify community priorities and perspectives, and shared concerns.

📊 In partnership with the Human Development Council, the information is not intended as a statistical representative poll of Saint John but as an open civic engagement tool designed to help surface community-based insights and shape questions for the Councillor and Mayoral Candidates Forums.

The Councillor and Mayoral Candidates Forums were livestreamed on the Human Development Council’s YouTube channel.

📺 See all the forums @HumanDevelopmentCouncil/Streams

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The Ward 1 winners were Greg Norton (Incumbent) & Sherri Colwell-McCavour.
The Ward 2 winners were John Colin MacKenzie & Brian Wyatt.
The Ward 3 winners were Eric Savoie & Ryan Moore.
The Ward 4 winners were Paul Dempsey & David Merrithew.