November 1, 2025 - November 5, 2025
NOVEMBER 1-5 – ONTARIO REGION – ELECTIONS: ONLINE/PHONE VOTING – WATCH FOR YOUR INDIVIDUAL CODE IN YOUR EMAIL OR BY CANADA POST WHEN WE GET CLOSER TO THE VOTING PERIOD.
ONTARIO ELECTIONS – NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN
Here’s the link to the nomination form: https://form.jotform.com/251395095495064
Nominations will be accepted until September 30th.
CANDIDATES
For the position of Vice-President
Talin Vartanian
PNA members elected me as secretary to the Ontario Board of Directors in 2022, and (through an internal shuffle) I became Vice President last year. In March of 2023, I volunteered to create a new, greatly improved edition of the PNA Ontario newsletter Livewire, and have been the editor and principal writer since.
For 43 years, I worked as a CBC Radio journalist, producing some of the most popular programs on the network, including Morningside, As It Happens, and The Sunday Edition. I created Canada Reads, the annual CBC Radio program that turns books into bestsellers, and produced the program for its first six seasons.
I’m also known as Citizen Talin, a feisty consumer advocate, appearing first on CBC Radio (on the national program This Morning and the regional show Fresh Air) then on the CBC TV program Marketplace.
In addition to volunteering for the PNA, I sit on the Board of Directors of Unlock Democracy, which is fighting for electoral reform, and work as a writer and editor through my website
https://www.editortalin.com/
I don’t describe myself as retired, I’m rewired. Talin’s answers to questions