ONTARIO FIVE COMPUTERS STOLEN FROM MAYOR CANDIDATES OFFICE http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=0694e74f-7400-4c90-8a29-cd3de9e73956&k=72201

Jake Rupert, Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, October 20, 2006

The Ottawa police have two investigations under way relating to the campaign for mayor.

Someone broke into former city councillor Alex Munter’s downtown campaign office sometime Thursday night or early yesterday morning and stole five computers.

Meanwhile, 700 of Mayor Bob Chiarelli’s campaign signs have gone missing or been destroyed.

The break-in was at Mr. Munter’s headquarters at the corner of St. Patrick and Dalhousie streets in the Byward Market area.

The stole computers contained Mr. Munter’s voter identification lists, which will play a large role in getting out his vote on election day, and fund-raising information.

Nothing else was taken and there was no vandalism.

Joan Weinman, Mr. Munter’s media relations officer, said all the information “was backed up, and the campaign is running at full steam.” She added that no confidential campaign donation information, like credit card numbers, was taken.

Ms. Weinman said two key campaign staff have also experienced break-ins at a residence and an office recently, and that hard drives were stolen during those crimes, too