Gloucester-South Nepean gets new candidates for city council: Two men, 28, named Michael

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OTTAWA — Two 28-year-old men named Michael want to be the next councillor for suburban Gloucester-South Nepean ward: one an insider with a yen for politics, one an outsider driven to bring his version of common sense to City Hall. The first is Michael Qaqish, a host on CHIN radio and formerly an aide to the current councillor, Steve Desroches, who says he’s living up to a self-imposed limit of two terms. More recently — until Friday morning, in fact — Qaqish worked for Capital ward Coun. David Chernushenko, giving him about five years of experience in councillors’ offices. He touts his political analysis on his website and even his Twitter handle is a bit of a boast:There’s something wrong when some birds’ nests can stop a bridge reconstruction (as the nests of protected barn swallows did on Jockvale Road earlier this year) but raw sewage still runs into the Ottawa River sometimes when it rains hard.

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