{"id":30091,"date":"2014-10-07T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30091"},"modified":"2014-10-07T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:21:19","slug":"brock-hosting-st-catharines-mayoral-debate-oct-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/10\/brock-hosting-st-catharines-mayoral-debate-oct-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock hosting St. Catharines mayoral debate Oct. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/debate2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30092\" title=\"Conference hall with microphones\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/debate2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Conference hall with microphones\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brock University will host the second St. Catharines mayoral debate.<\/p>\n<p>Five candidates will make their case to lead Niagara&#8217;s largest city in front of voters Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Sean O&#8217;Sullivan Theatre from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. The municipal election is Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Brock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/departments-and-centres\/political-science\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Political Science<\/a>, the debate is open to the public and will be moderated by Professors Janique Dubois and Sanjay Jeram.<\/p>\n<p>Mayoral candidates Jeff Burch, Jim Fannon, Peter Secord, Walter Sendzik and Mark Stevens will all have a two-minute opening statement and then the moderators will ask each to respond to three general questions.<\/p>\n<p>Following that, audience questions written and passed to the moderators will be presented to the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>A range of issues will be discussed, including economic development, infrastructure, poverty, community life, taxation, the arts, and Port Dalhousie\/downtown revitalization.<\/p>\n<p>After 90 minutes, candidates will give short closing statements.<\/p>\n<p>The first mayoral debate Monday drew an audience of 400 at Ridley College.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our department, and the University generally, have a duty to raise awareness about matters important to the community,&#8221; Jeram said. &#8220;Also, we believe exposure to a debate of this nature will spark an interest among students to get involved in their community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five candidates will make their case to lead Niagara&#8217;s largest city in front of voters Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Sean O&#8217;Sullivan Theatre from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. The municipal election is Oct. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1762,2429,42,1185,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30094,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091\/revisions\/30094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}