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Weather for Oakville, ON Fri Sat Sun Mon 24° 15° 13° 8° 12° 6° 16° 8° Never a doubt Sports www.insidehalton.com MECHANICAL SERVICES dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 AUTO AUTO AU TOPR PRO PR O OA OAKV OAKV KVIL ILLE E 2 2 Wyecroft Road, Oakv 221 kvill ille e autoprooakville.mechanicnet.com 905-469-2442 2 Stay Connected! Friday, October 3, 2014 | 32 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Mayoral candidates square off at debate by Michael Gregory Oakville Beaver Staff S H A D E S O F A U T U M N The revitalization of downtown, taxes and the desire to keep jobs in Oakville were among the key issues raised as the ve candidates contesting the mayor's seat squared off at a Chamber of Commerce debate Wednesday night. Former federal lawyer John McLaughlin wasted no time during his opening remarks of the 90-minute debate at the Oakville Conference Centre in attacking incumbent Rob Burton over what he describes as the current mayor's so-called "doublespeak." "I'm running to end eight years of failed leadership. That's by Mr. Burton if you don't know that. Failed policies, scal mismanagement and doublespeak," McLaughlin said, turning to point at the mayor on several occasions. Burton, meanwhile, stuck to familiar talking points, never rebutting the comments thrown his way by fellow candidates, but instead sticking to many of the highlights of last week's state of the town address. "The old guard before me said my promises could not be done. As you've seen, they were wrong see Mayoral on p.3 Lexcie Pimentel, 9, holds up a fallen sugar maple leaf, as the morning sunshine casts the leaf's shadow on her face. Dozens of volunteers planted 500 native trees Saturday morning in Oakville Park as part of TD Trees Days. For more photos, see p. 18. This weekend is the start of Conservation Halton's Fall into Nature event that runs over ve days (Oct. 4-5 and Oct 11-13) at seven local parks. | photo by Graham Paine ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or facebook.com/HaltonPhotog · HOME · AUTO · LIFE · BUSINESS · AV I AT I O N T H E M A G N E S G RO U P I N C . 1540 Cornwall Rd., Suite #100, Oakville, ON L6J 7W5 Tel: 905-845-9793 Fax: 905-845-9149 www.magnesgroup.com END INSURANCE CONFUSION. For informed decisions that you can feel good about, contact us!