Green Party candidates, 1999 Ontario provincial election

The Green Party of Ontario ran 58 candidates in the 1999 provincial election, none of whom were elected. Some of these candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Phyllis McColl (Hamilton West)

McColl was 56 years old at the time of the election, and had recently retired from a teaching position at Mohawk College ("Hamilton Spectator", 1 June 1999). She received 495 votes (1.20%), finishing fourth against New Democratic Party candidate David Christopherson.

=Doug Woodard (St. Catharines)=

Woodard was born in Alberta in 1942, and was raised in Quebec. He is now retired, and is a resident of St. Catharines. Woodard is a contributor to the Babble.ca forum [cite web|url = http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00008679 |title = babble |accessdate = 2008-06-25] , where he has written a number of articles advocating the single transferable vote.

He has been a member of the Green Party for most of the time since 1984. [cite web|url = http://www.uoguelph.ca/~whulet/OGN/Vol1Issue1/Doug_Printer.htm |title = Doug_Printer |accessdate = 2008-06-25] He received 215 votes (0.46%) in 1999, finishing fifth against Liberal candidate Jim Bradley.

at K. Singh Khalsa (Trinity—Spadina)

Khalsa was a frequent candidate for the provincial and federal Green Parties in the 1990s. He is a co-founder of Toronto's Local Employment and Trading System (LETS), which distributes GreenDollars as local barter ("Toronto Star", 28 March 1992), and was listed as a LETS administrator in 1993 ("Toronto Star", 20 June 1993). During the 1993 federal election, he promised to donate half his parliamentary salary to community groups if elected ("Toronto Star", 22 October 1993).

Khalsa described himself as a househusband during the 1997 federal election ("Toronto Star", 30 May 1997) and has called for greater democracy within the family unit, encouraging greater respect between parents and children ("Toronto Star", 6 June 1996). In a 1990 forum on Toronto police services, he advocated that Toronto officers be renamed as "peace officers", and only be permitted to draw their guns to defend themselves ("Toronto Star", 5 November 1990).

Timothy Dugdale (Windsor West)

Dugdale is a writer and academic, and lived in Windsor at the time of the 1990 election. He has a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Windsor, and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Michigan, USA. His dissertation was entitled, "”Telling It Like It Was?!” Discursive Strategies In Star/Celebrity (Auto)Biographies - Jackie Byars, director". [http://dugdale.atomicquill.com/cv.htm]

He campaigned for the Green Party of Canada in the 1997 federal election, and received 357 votes for a fifth-place finish in Windsor—St. Clair. The winner was Shaughnessy Cohen of the Liberal Party. In the same year, he unsuccessfully campaigned for mayor of Windsor.

He received 420 votes (1.13%) in the 1999 election, finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Sandra Pupatello. He newspaper report from this period lists him as a communications instructor at the University of Windsor. Dugdale claimed he would run as a "Blue Green", fiscally conservative and socially liberal ("Windsor Star", 27 January 1999).

Dugdale was Press Manager and Head Graphic Designer of the University of Detroit Mercy Press from 2001 to 2004, when he founded Atomic Quill Media.cite web|url = http://aigadesignjobs.org/public/individual_details.asp?individual_id=68076&from_url=true |title = Timothy Dugdale's profile |accessdate = 2008-06-25] He now teaches English at Detroit Mercy, and has published two books: "Requiem for Oblivion" and "I Couldn't Care Less".

He also operates his own website, available [cite web|url = http://dugdale.atomicquill.com/ |title = timothy dugdale :: academic site |accessdate = 2008-06-25] .

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