Ganaraska Rush
Guide a salmon upstream, dodge obstacles, build a streak, and compete for a place on the daily and weekly leaderboards.
Play the arcade gameA youth engagement project from the Jordan Stevenson campaign
Port Hope Next
Port Hope's future should not be designed without the people who will inherit it.
Play a local challenge, share an idea, and see what Jordan is proposing to give young people a clearer voice at Town Hall.
Port Hope Next is operated by the Jordan Stevenson campaign. It is not a municipal website or program.
Local challenges
Two ways to play
The arcade is a quick daily challenge. The civic game asks you to sit with the trade-offs behind local decisions.
The Port Hope Challenge
Make five difficult decisions over one simulated council term and see what your choices mean for affordability, infrastructure, trust, and Port Hope's future.
Take the challengeQuick feedback
The 60-Second Youth Pulse
One focused question, no account, and no request for your name, age, school, address, or contact details.
What would make it easier for you to build your future in Port Hope?
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This is informal campaign feedback, not a scientific or representative poll. No account or email is required.
Youth Idea Lab
What should Port Hope try next?
A good idea should not disappear just because the person proposing it is young. Send the campaign a practical idea for improving life in Port Hope.
The form does not ask for a name, school, address, phone number, birthdate, or exact age.
How Town Hall works
Who actually controls what?
Responsibility is not always perfectly clean. These examples show where an issue usually starts and where cooperation is often required.
Municipality of Port HopeLocal services and decisions closest to daily life.
- Local roads, sidewalks, water, wastewater, parks, recreation, fire services, and many public facilities
- Local planning, zoning, building services, heritage decisions, and municipal bylaws
- The municipal budget and priorities approved by council
Northumberland CountyServices delivered across the county or assigned to the upper tier.
- Community and social services, housing and homelessness supports, and child and family services
- Paramedic services, county roads, and waste management
- County-wide economic development, planning, tourism, and long-term care services
Province of OntarioProvincial law, systems, funding, and standards.
- The laws that define municipal powers, planning rules, and local-government finance
- Education, healthcare policy and funding, social-assistance rules, and major transportation policy
- Provincial grants, approvals, regulators, and ministries that shape local projects
Shared responsibilityIssues where progress usually depends on more than one institution.
- Housing supply, affordability, homelessness, healthcare access, and public health
- Transportation connections, climate resilience, emergency readiness, and major infrastructure
- Economic development, workforce training, energy projects, and environmental protection
A mayor cannot personally control every service. A good mayor should still know who does, bring the right people together, and keep residents informed about what happens next.
Concrete proposals
Jordan's commitments to young people
Build on what exists, make the route into decision-making clearer, and publish what happens after young people speak up.
Build on existing youth voices
Port Hope already has youth programs and a Youth Action Committee. Jordan would work with those existing efforts rather than pretending nothing exists, while creating a clearer path for youth input on housing, transportation, employment, public space, infrastructure, and economic development.
Propose a youth participatory budget
Jordan would seek council support for a small annual fund that allows young residents to propose, refine, and vote on practical local projects. Council would still approve the budget and staff would still confirm feasibility.
Hold quarterly youth question sessions
Jordan would hold regular public sessions where young people can ask direct questions, raise priorities, and receive clear answers about what the municipality can and cannot do.
Publish an annual youth priorities report
The report would show what young residents raised, who controls each issue, what action was taken, what was rejected, and why.
Run youth innovation challenges
Young people would be invited to propose solutions involving safer streets, local events, environmental monitoring, public space, technology, jobs, and community life. Promising ideas could be tested through carefully controlled pilots.
A mayor cannot create these programs alone. Jordan would bring the proposals to council, work with staff, and publish the outcome.
Build on existing work
Youth opportunities already exist in Port Hope
Port Hope Next is not a replacement for municipal recreation, drop-in spaces, or the Youth Action Committee. It is a campaign project focused on creating a clearer route from youth input to broader municipal decisions.
Youth programs and the Youth Action Committee
Municipal programs, events, volunteer opportunities, and information about the Youth Action Committee.
Visit the official municipal pageChildren and youth drop-in programs
Current youth spaces, athletics, schedules, ages, fees, and seasonal notices.
Visit the official municipal pagePort Hope Next is operated by the Jordan Stevenson campaign. It is not affiliated with the Municipality of Port Hope and is not an official municipal consultation or service.
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