Interested in running for City Council or learning more about local politics? Your City Your Voice is a free community initiative helping people in Greater Sudbury explore what it takes to run for councillor or mayor in the 2026 municipal election. Through workshops, resources, and community connections, participants will learn about the role, the election process, and how to get started. Open to everyone, with a special focus on encouraging underrepresented voices in local leadership.

A high-energy, storytelling and connection event designed to help participants move from inspired → informed → connected. Focused on demystifying the first steps into municipal politics and showing that saying “yes” to leadership looks different for everyone.

Run Where You Are is a free virtual event on September 23, 2025 at 7 PM EDT designed to help women and gender-diverse people across Ontario explore the path to municipal leadership. Whether you’re curious about running for council or school board, preparing for a campaign, or looking to support others, this one-hour event connects you with campaign schools, elected leaders, and resources to take your next step.

Municipal election season is in full swing, and that means it's campaign time! Join PoliticsNOW as we dive into our upcoming webinar series.

We’re teaching you how to write excellent copy for your campaign website. Copywriting is an art, and we’ve recruited an expert to teach you how. For this hour, we’ll be joined by Maddy (@bymaddyaucoin), a fantastic copywriter and editor. She’ll be teaching us the basics of writing for your campaign website, giving us tips, tricks and resources to do it ourselves and then sticking around for the entirety of the hour to assist us and answer whatever questions we have.

Giving women running for municipal office a community to learn together and support each other as we take on one campaign task and get it done in one hour flat.

Giving women running for municipal office a community to learn together and support each other as we take on one campaign task and get it done in one hour flat.

PoliticsNOW will be hosting a virtual roundtable discussion with three phenomenal Northern Ontario politicians: Kristin Murray (Timmins municipal councillor), Viviane Lapointe (Member of Parliament for Sudbury) and Erika Lougheed (East Ferris municipal councillor and provincial NDP candidate for Nipissing).