2022 Municipal Election News

A Stratford Festival actor, Kruchkywich said the city he has grown to love is changing and city council needs to steer it in the right direction

The city's affordability issue is the main reason city resident Jason Davis is running for Stratford city council

A dentist who also runs a farming business, Drake thinks the city could benefit from a convention centre. Drake previously ran for mayor of Stratford in 2018

Robb Williamson is running for city council on three core principles: integrity, transparency, and accountability

Don Robinson is running in Stratford's municipal election. The taxi company owner hears all of the citizen issues in his day job and wants to be able to work towards addressing them

The Stratford resident works in systems design IT at Wilfrid Laurier University and is president of his condo board

Ken Wood is running for city council and hopes to bring more innovation to Stratford, something he believes the city has been lacking

Mark Hunter, also in-house legal counsel for the company his father started in Stratford in 1977, believes the attributes he carries as company president, including building consensus with branch managers, are transferable to the role of a city councillor

There are three candidates running for mayor of Stratford and 29 candidates running for one of 10 city councillor spots. Al Strathdee has been acclaimed mayor of St. Marys after no other candidates stepped forward and Jim Aitcheson was acclaimed as mayor of Perth South

The Good Governance Group describe themselves as citizens committed to the principles of participatory democracy – transparency, full accountability, and a commitment to draw public opinion into the council decision-making process. After the City of Stratford sent voting information letters to home owners but not renters, the group decided to mail out their own voter information sheets