BILL LONGWORTH is a graduate of both Queen's University and the University of Toronto and has been a resident of Oshawa for the last 40 years.
He has been a long time political observor and activist in Oshawa and was Oshawa's Federal Conservative Candidate in the 1990 Federal By-election.
He was founder and chairman of Ward System Now, the activist organization that brought the ward system to Oshawa. He personally presented the winning case to the Ontario Municipal Board in 1985 in a 21 day hearing, the longest of it's type in Ontario History.
In his spare time, Bill likes to cottage, paint and sketch, write stories, and play his guitar.
Bill writes a weekly political news column in the Oshawa Central Newspaper and reprints his published columns at www.eyeoncityhall.ca...and he hosts a weekly political radio program on The WAVE radio...which you can hear every Monday from 6-9 pm EST at www.ocentral.com
In Bill's spare time he enjoys painting, writing, jamming and singing to his guitar accompaniment, cottaging, antiquing, and travel, and sunny drives in the country in his 2000 BMW M3 Roadster.