Students can vote in special polls at Trent

They can cast a ballot for a candidate in either Peterborough-Kawartha or their home riding

To help get out the student vote, special advance polls will be held for students only starting next weekend at Trent University in Peterborough.

The first voting is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in Room OC 206.

The next is Oct. 6 from noon to 4 p.m., in the Student Centre event space. And then there will be extended-hours daily advance polls from Oct. 7 to 9 from 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., also in the Student Centre event space.

Students can vote for candidates who are running either in the Peterborough-Kawartha riding or in their own home riding back home.

Students need to bring proof of address to vote.

Similar special ballot advance polls will also take place at the same times on campuses across Canada.

Trent University will also be hosting one of the advance polls for the full community from Oct. 11 to 14, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. at the Student Centre event space.

Yes, that means you can even vote on Thanksgiving Day, and the entire Thanksgiving weekend.

That’s because the Canada Elections Act requires advance voting to be held on the 10th, ninth, eighth and seventh days before election day which is on Oct. 21.

To find your advance poll location, visit elections.ca and enter your postal code.

Trudeau rally

Judi Forbes, Liberal candidate for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock, was introduced at the start of Justin Trudeau’s Evinrude Centre rally last Thursday, along with Peterborough-Kawartha MP Maryam Monsef and Northumberland Peterborough South MP Kim Rudd.

Peterborough This Week reported that Forbes called Trudeau’s address inspiring.

“It was really about moving forward with plans already in place.

“But we need another four years to really bring it to fruition,” Forbes said.

She said she was excited about the Liberals’ new housing strategy, which she said would help people find homes and cut homelessness.

“Hopefully, we can eliminate it all together. But we need a mandate to do another four years.”

Forbes faces incumbent Conservative Jamie Schmale, Barbara Doyle of the NDP, the Green party’s Elizabeth Fraser and Gene Balfour for the People’s Party of Canada.

Davidson runs in Brampton

Jane Davidson, a local communications consultant who pursued the Green nomination in Peterborough-Kawartha earlier this year, is on the ballot for the party in Brampton West.

The Greens had originally chosen Brock Grills to run under their banner locally, with Davidson the runner-up for the nomination.

When Grills stepped down, Davidson did not pursue the nod again and Andrew MacGregor won the nomination. The Brampton West riding encompasses most of the west side of Brampton, two hours west of Peterborough.

It was won by Liberal Kamal Khera, who is running again, in the last election. The Greens, represented by Karthika Gobinath in 2015, won 674 votes, or 1.55 per cent of the total.

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“Hopefully, we can eliminate (homelessness) all together. But we need a mandate to do another four years.” JUDI FORBES LIBERAL CANDIDATE