Simran Talpade News Today

City hall and municipal politics can be confusing at the best of times. But Shelby Ch'ng is going to TikTok to break things down in a simple, easy way.

The municipal election voting is over, but there's still number crunching going on. And for officials in many parts of northwestern Ontario, the news is promising as the 2022 voter turnout was on the upswing compared to the last municipal election, unlike the provincial average rate, which dipped compared to 2018.

Voters in Thunder Bay have shown their desire for familiar faces around the city council table for the next four years, re-electing Ken Boshcoff and seven incumbent candidates. But the municipal election results also reflect an appetite for change.

For Nipissing University student Jared Gagne the mental health and homelessness crisis is the most important municipal election issue in North Bay, Ont.