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1 week ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
Cyndi Mills has been on the ballot before- but she sees her candidacy in Algonquin-Renfrew-Pembroke as particularly relevant to the current Federal Election. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/436/files/2025/04/apr-11-cyndi-mills-liberal-1.mp3It’s Cyndi’s personal opinion that the amalgamation of the Upper Ottawa Valley Chamber of Commerce with the former Arnprior body has created a stronger voice when we need it most.
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2 weeks ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
If you’re considering voting for the first name you see on the Algonquin-Renfrew-Pembroke ballot, it may also be valuable to know how to pronounce it.
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1 month ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke Member of Parliament Cheryl Gallant is hoping to be re-elected in the new riding of Algonquin-Renfrew-Pembroke on April 28th. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2121/files/2025/03/mar-21-cheryl-gallant-good-to-go-1.mp3Gallant says the newly-minted Liberal leader isn’t the shiniest penny in the jar.
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1 month ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
In advance of the Federal Election expected to be called Sunday, we can already tell you who the likely candidates will be. For the Conservative Party, Cheryl Gallant met the nomination criteria in December for the vote she’s been calling for for a number of years. Cyndi Mills returns as Liberal Party nominee, and the New Democrats are going back to the party’s standard-bearer from the 2019 vote, Eileen Jones Whyte.
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1 month ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
Liberal Oliver Jacob watched our local results from his home in Braeside. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/773/files/2025/02/feb-27-oliver-reaction-1.mp3In 2022, Jacob finished behind the NDP Candidate in our riding.
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2 months ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
Arnprior resident Billy Denault, a neophyte thus far on the Provincial scene has a series of “Meet-and-Greets” planned to introduce himself to the riding. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2121/files/2025/02/feb-19-billy-denault-meet-and-greets-1.mp3He outlines the format for the events. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2121/files/2025/02/feb-19-billy-denault-meet-and-greets-2.mp3The first is in his home town.
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2 months ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
There are six names on this year’s Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke ballot for the February 27th Provincial Election, and one of those even three weeks ago had no idea that one of those might be his. Petawawa’s Kevin Holm explains. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2121/files/2025/02/feb-17-kevin-holm-ontario-party-1.mp3Kevin is the Ontario Party nominee, and says his, and the party’s values boil down to a trio of elements.
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2 months ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke New Democratic Party candidate Marshall Buchanan believes his resume ticks all the boxes when it comes to experience. https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/436/files/2025/02/feb-14-marshall-buchanan-ndp-1.mp3Not to mention sitting on the board of the Bonnechere Watershed Project.
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2 months ago | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
Some political parties call them “campaign offices”, others use the term “committee rooms”. Depending on the number of workers available to a candidate, they’re a great central location to coordinate election sign distribution, organize door-to-door canvasses, and provide coffee to ease the chill of a mid-winter election.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
pembroketoday.ca | Rick Stow
Not the education Josh Alexander anticipated, but another lesson was delivered to the former Renfrew County Catholic School Board student to end 2024. The Ottawa Citizen, in its December 31st issue, reports that an Ontario Divisional Court panel has ruled that it saw no errors in the decision by the RCCDSB to uphold its expulsion of Alexander from schools in its jurisdiction on behavioural grounds.