When the nomination period closed last week, Elections Ontario published the official list of candidates in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke. On February 27th Valley voters will be able to choose from the following six candidates:
Candidate name Political party MARSHALL BUCHANAN Ontario NDP/NPD BILLY DENAULT PC Party of Ontario MARK DICKSON New Blue Party ANNA MARIA DOLAN Green Party of Ontario GPO KEVIN HOLM Ontario Party OLIVER JACOB Ontario Liberal Party
The Current aims to provide our readers with any campaign information released by each candidate. In addition to the material already in our special 2025 Ontario election section, voters may be interested in the following.
Although we have not yet received anything from the New Blue Party about Mark Dickson, you can visit their website. LINK: Candidates! — New Blue Party of Ontario
The Green Party of Ontario has not shared any new information about Anna Maria Dolan, but readers may wish to refresh their memories by reading our article from the 2018 election. LINK: Anna Dolan is Green Party candidate | Madawaska Valley Current
Kevin Holm is the Ontario Party’s candidate in R-N-P. His candidacy was announced on February 10th and is reproduced here. LINK: Kevin Holm represents the Ontario Party in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke | Madawaska Valley Current
will not vote for a candidate for the conservatives who thinks he is a shoe in because of current govt. and thinks he will get a nice cushy job for 4 years and
does not have the decency to show up for the debate.
Well, we have quite a decent selection of candidates there and there’s certainly no shortage of political parties in Ontario but it doesn’t matter whom we vote for, they will get swamped by the smug self-satisfied Toronto-centric GTA establishment. It would help a lot if we had preference balloting so we could specify first, second, and third choices and then we could have a more representative MPP who could be more independent of the GTA establishment which controls each of these parties. Perhaps we also need a political party which would focus completely on rural communities much like the “United Farmers of Ontario” did a hundred years ago except that we might call it “United Communities of Ontario Party” or the “Community Party of Ontario”. Another idea would be to have a provincial senate with each county and city electing a provincial senator and only farmers and home-owners would vote for provincial senators:- dream on, dream on!