Cole-Arnal may have come in last, but he did change the tone of the election. At every opportunity, he hammered on the issue of poverty. It was impossible to ignore.

Cole-Arnal decided to run for chair after Grand River Transit ended a bus route that low-income people u...

Instead of the safe and regulated debate found in the ballrooms of luxury hotels, Alliance Against Poverty (AAP) hosted an open air “market place” style of democracy at Kitchener City Hall Square on Saturday October 25th from 11:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M....

In the fourth point of our (AAP)/my election campaign platform, I promise a commitment to “Community Democracy.”  Over the last weeks of the campaign I have discovered ways to deepen that commitment.      

          Of course, I contin...

Oz Cole-Arnal ran for office once before as a federal candidate for the NDP in the 2011 elections. Cole-Arnal wants to see higher minimum wage, free transit for people under poverty line. Other parts of Cole-Arnal's platform include raising the minimum wage in Waterloo...