My home town of Iqaluit, Nunavut will be electing a new mayor on Tuesday. Here's a story about it that CBC wrote up the other day:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/12/08/iqaluit-mayoral-forum.html
As a mayoral election in one of Canada's thirteen capital cities you would think it would get more media attention. Although, on the other hand, as capital of its least populous territory, Canadians probably care less about this election than Americans care about who the mayor of the capital city of Guam will be. Although, on the third hand, I don't believe Guam receives quite as much money from the central government as Nunavut does. On the fourth hand, the mayorship of Iqaluit doesn't have much to do with that money. I could go on like this all day. Also: was everyone aware that people from Guam are called Guamanians? I digress.
The important issues in this election seem to be mainly waste management, housing, and those posts that separate foot traffic from regular traffic. Why can't they build sidewalks, people ask? Also: why can't they get one of those sidewalk sized snowblower things to clear them with, people ask? I'm not sure that these posts have really been discussed in the campaign, but I just find it ridiculous that a Canadian capital city can't install a few sidewalks.
Check in next week for the thrilling conclusion of "Iqaluit Mayoral Bi-elections!"
I think if they were to do sidewalks in Iqaluit they should be stone pathways ones or something similar to that. Concrete or asphalt roads require a lot of maintenance especially with the amount of snow over there.
ReplyDeleteAlso compared to their already busted up streets that take awhile to get fixed I think a stone pathway would be nice. I mean, Iqaluit has no shortage of rocks :P