{"id":7943,"date":"2026-02-17T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:49:08","slug":"2025-2026-coto-board-elections-voting-is-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/news-articles\/2025-2026-coto-board-elections-voting-is-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-2026\u00a0COTO Board Elections: Voting is now open\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Voting is now open for the 2025-2026&nbsp;Board of Directors elections in\u202f<strong>District&nbsp;2&nbsp;(Central&nbsp;West)<\/strong>&nbsp;and<strong>&nbsp;District 3 (Central&nbsp;East)<\/strong>. There are two positions available in&nbsp;District&nbsp;2 (3-year terms) and one position in District 3 (by-election for 1-year term).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registrants who are eligible to vote should have received an electronic ballot to the email on file with the College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Voting closes Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 2 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Electoral District&nbsp;2&nbsp;(Central&nbsp;West)\u202f<\/strong>\u2014<strong>\u202f2 positions&nbsp;(3-year term)<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Composed of the counties of Bruce, Grey, Elgin, Essex, Huron, Chatham-Kent, Lambton, Middlesex, Oxford, Perth, Brant, Wellington, Dufferin, Haldimand, Norfolk, Hamilton, Halton,&nbsp;Niagara&nbsp;and Waterloo.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Territorial Districts of Rainy River, Thunder Bay, Kenora, Algoma,&nbsp;Sudbury&nbsp;and Manitoulin.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Electoral District&nbsp;2&nbsp;(Central&nbsp;East)\u202f<\/strong>\u2014<strong>\u202f1&nbsp;position&nbsp;(1-year term)<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Composed of York, Durham, Ottawa, Simcoe, Northumberland, Peterborough, Prince Edward, Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Prescott and Russell, Renfrew, Hastings, Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington, Lanark, and Leeds and Grenville.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Territorial Districts of Cochrane, Muskoka, Parry&nbsp;Sound, and&nbsp;Nipissing and Timiskaming.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of Directors sets the strategy for the College and makes decisions to ensure the public receives ethical, competent care from Ontario\u2019s occupational therapists. Involvement on the Board provides registrants and members of the public with rewarding opportunities to contribute to both public protection and the future of the occupational therapy profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have questions about the election ballot, please contact&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:elections@coto.org\">elections@coto.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/about\/who-we-are\/elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">College elections<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/about\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/about\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors\/\">work of our Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is now open for the 2025-2026&nbsp;Board of Directors elections in\u202fDistrict&nbsp;2&nbsp;(Central&nbsp;West)&nbsp;and&nbsp;District 3 (Central&nbsp;East). There are two positions available in&nbsp;District&nbsp;2 (3-year terms) and one position in District 3 (by-election for 1-year term).&nbsp; Registrants who are eligible to vote should have received an electronic ballot to the email on file with the College. Voting closes Wednesday, March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7945,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions\/7945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}