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2003 Brantford Municipal Election
The 2003 Brantford municipal election was held on November 10, 2003, to elect a mayor, city councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario. Mike Hancock narrowly defeated incumbent Chris Friel in the mayoral contest, winning by only fifteen votes. Despite the close margin, Friel decided not to seek a recount. Results *Randy Tooke was thirty-one years old during the election and owned a café in Brantford. He focused his campaign around a call for downtown revitalization to benefit small-business owners. {{Brantford municipal election, 2003/Position/Councillor, Ward Five (two members elected) *Wally Lucente was born and raised in Brantford. He first ran for the Brantford City Council in 1985 with support from the Brantford and District Labour Council; he was thirty years old at the time and worked for the provincial labour ministry. Defeated on that occasion, he was elected in 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, and 2000. During his time on council, he chaired ...
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Mayor
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as the means by which a mayor is elected or otherwise mandated. Depending on the system chosen, a mayor may be the chief executive officer of the municipal government, may simply chair a multi-member governing body with little or no independent power, or may play a solely ceremonial role. A mayor's duties and responsibilities may be to appoint and oversee municipal managers and employees, provide basic governmental services to constituents, and execute the laws and ordinances passed by a municipal governing body (or mandated by a state, territorial or national governing body). Options for selection of a mayor include direct election by the public, or selection by an elected governing council or board. The term ''mayor'' shares a linguistic ...
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1994 Brantford Municipal Election
The 1994 Brantford municipal election was held on November 14, 1994, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario. In the mayoral contest, Chris Friel defeated one-term incumbent Bob Taylor. Results *Bob Lancaster was raised in the small community of Little Lake, Ontario. He was first elected to the Brantford City Council in 1978, winning a seat in the city's second ward. He was re-elected without opposition in 1980 and was returned again in 1982. After standing down in 1985, he returned to council in 1991 and served another term. Lancaster was fifty-four years old in 1994, worked as a realtor, and was seen as a pro-business candidate. After the 1994 election, he complained to the Ontario Press Council about election coverage in the ''Brantford Expositor''. The case was dismissed. He later chaired both the Brantford police services board and the Brant and Brantford Housing Authority as a citizen appointee. His nephew Stephen Lancaster ...
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Iroquois
The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/ Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy. The English called them the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca (listed geographically from east to west). After 1722, the Iroquoian-speaking Tuscarora people from the southeast were accepted into the confederacy, which became known as the Six Nations. The Confederacy came about as a result of the Great Law of Peace, said to have been composed by Deganawidah the Great Peacemaker, Hiawatha, and Jigonsaseh the Mother of Nations. For nearly 200 years, the Six Nations/Haudenosaunee Confederacy were a powerful factor in North American colonial policy, with some scholars arguing for the concept of the Middle Ground, in that Europe ...
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Government Of Ontario
The government of Ontario (french: Gouvernement de l'Ontario) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of Ontario. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown—represented in the province by the lieutenant governor—is the corporation sole, assuming distinct roles: the executive, as the ''Crown-in-Council''; the legislature, as the ''Crown-in-Parliament''; and the courts, as the ''Crown-on-the-Bench''. The functions of the government are exercised on behalf of three institutions—the Executive Council; the Provincial Parliament (Legislative Assembly); and the judiciary, respectively. Its powers and structure are partly set out in the ''Constitution Act, 1867''. The term ''Government of Ontario'' refers specifically to the executive—political ministers of the Crown (the Cabinet/Executive Council), appointed on the advice of the premier, and the non-partisan Ontario Public Service (whom the Executive Council directs), who staff ministries and age ...
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Brownfield
In urban planning, brownfield land is any previously developed land that is not currently in use. It may be potentially contaminated, but this is not required for the area to be considered brownfield. The term is also used to describe land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes with known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste. Examples sites include abandoned factories, landfills, dry cleaning establishments and gas stations. Typical contaminants include hydrocarbon spillages, solvents and pesticides, as well as heavy metals like lead, tributyl tins and asbestos. Many contaminated brownfield sites sit unused for decades as involuntary parks because cleaning cost is more than land worth after redevelopment. Previously unknown underground wastes can increase the cost for study and clean-up. Acquisition, adaptive re-use, and disposal of a brownfield site requires advanced and specialized appraisal analysis techniques. Remediat ...
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Marguerite Ceschi-Smith
Marguerite may refer to: People * Marguerite (given name), including a list of people with the name Places *Marguerite, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community *Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula *Marguerite Island, Adélie Land, Antarctica Entertainment * ''Marguerite'' (musical), a 2008 West End musical by Michel Legrand *"Margueritte", a song by Oregon from the album ''Winter Light'' * ''Marguerite'' (2015 film), a French film * ''Marguerite'' (2017 film), a Canadian film Ships *, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 *, another United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 and 1919; renamed ''SP-892'' in 1918 to avoid confusion *, a Royal Navy sloop transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1920 * ''Marguerite'' (ship), a French cargo ship launched in 1912, sunk by a U-boat in 1917 Plants *''Argyranthemum'', a genus of plants in the daisy family, especially '' A. frutescens'' *Garden marguerites, a group of hybrids derived ...
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Brant County, Ontario
The County of Brant (2021 population 39,474) is a single-tier municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. Although it retains the word "county" in its name, the municipality is a single-tier municipal government and has no upper tier. The County of Brant has service offices in Burford, Paris, Oakland, Onondaga and St. George. The largest population centre (2021 population 14,956) is Paris. The County of Brant is a predominantly rural municipality in Southern Ontario. The County is bordered by the township of North Dumfries in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo; the City of Hamilton; Haldimand County; Norfolk County; and the townships of Blandford-Blenheim and Norwich in Oxford County. The County abuts the provincially-mandated Greenbelt. Although the city of Brantford is surrounded by the County, it is a fully independent city with its own municipal government. The Brant census division, which includes Brantford and the Six Nations and New Credit reserves along wi ...
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2000 Brantford Municipal Election
The 2000 Brantford municipal election was held on November 13, 2000, to elect a mayor, city councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Results *Kevin Raymond was born in Sudbury, lived in Hamilton during his youth, and later moved to Toronto. He is a member of the Liberal Party and was an assistant for Member of Parliament (MP) Jane Stewart and Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Dave Levac before running for office himself. He has also been a youth councillor and corporate recruiter and has done fundraising work for Habitat for Humanity. After the 2000 election, he was a citizen appointee to Brantford's Waste Reduction Steering Committee. *Joseph Robert Gallant is a former Roman Catholic priest from North Bay who later worked as an interior designer. He took part in a protest against Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic in 1994, after Ambrozic spoke against provincial legislation to expand the rights of same-sex couples. He ran for mayor of Brantford ...
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1997 Brantford Municipal Election
The 1997 Brantford municipal election was held on November 10, 1997, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in the city of Brantford, Ontario. Some of the rural and small-town communities outside of Brantford also held elections on the same day. Chris Friel was easily re-elected as mayor of Brantford, defeating right-wing challenger Andy Woodburn. Results *Wayne Barlett was a first-time candidate in 1997. He has served on Brantford's economic development board. *Patrick Clement (born September 9, 1949) was a first-time candidate in 1997. He intended to run for mayor a second time in 2000, but was informed that he could not do so because he had not filed an expenses report for the 1997 campaign. Clement had planned to run on a platform of reducing taxes and pursuing an anti-poverty strategy and described his disqualification as a prejudicial act. *Cam Gillespie has served on the boards of the Brantford General Hospital, the Brantford Community Services Advisory B ...
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1991 Brantford Municipal Election
The 1991 Brantford municipal election was held on November 12, 1991, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Bob Taylor, who had served on council for only one year, was elected as mayor over incumbent Karen George. Results *Patrick "Pat" Luciani is a businessperson in Brantford. He was elected to Brantford city council for the city's third ward in 1972 and 1974; this followed two unsuccessful bids in 1968 and 1970. He did not seek re-election in 1976. After a nine-year break, he was returned to council in 1985, winning a seat in the city's fifth ward. Luciani first ran for mayor of Brantford in the 1988 municipal election and finished a distant second against incumbent Karen George. He described his second loss in 1991 as "disappointing," adding that the protest vote did not break as he expected. In 1996, Luciani led a group of Brantford businesspersons in proposing a private university named after Alexander Graham Bell, targeted to ...
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Brantford, Ontario
Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independent of the county's municipal government. Brantford is situated on the Haldimand Tract, traditional territory of the Neutral, Mississauga, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The city is named after Joseph Brant, an important Mohawk leader, soldier, farmer and slave owner. Brant was an important Loyalist leader during the American Revolutionary War and later, after the Haudenosaunee moved to the Brantford area in Upper Canada. Many of his descendants, and other First Nations people, live on the nearby Six Nations of the Grand River reserve south of Brantford; it is the most populous reserve in Canada. Brantford is known as the "Telephone City" as the city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone at his father's home ...
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1988 Brantford Municipal Election
The 1988 Brantford municipal election was held on November 14, 1988, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Elections were also held in the rural and small-town communities around the city. Results *Kevin Davis has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Queen's University at Kingston, Queen's University. He is a lawyer in Brantford, Ontario, Brantford and has chaired both the Brantford Regional Chamber of Commerce and the city's economic development board. Davis was first elected to Brantford City Council in 1985 Brantford municipal election, 1985 and was returned without opposition in 1988; he did not seek re-election in 1991. He has also served on the board of Brantford's Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario association. Many expected that he would run for the party in the 2007 Ontario general election, 2007 provincial election, but he declined."Broken promises", ''Br ...
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