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2009 Newfoundland And Labrador Municipal Elections
The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador held municipal elections in its municipalities on September 29, 2009. Listed are the results of selected municipal mayoral races in the province. Bay Roberts Clarenville Conception Bay South Mayoral City council Corner Brook Mayoral City Council (6 to be elected) City Council By-Election 2011 (To replace the seat vacated by Charlie Renouf) Daniel's Harbour Mayoral Elected City Council Gander Grand Falls-Windsor Happy Valley-Goose Bay Mayoral City Council Labrador City Marystown Mount Pearl Mayoral City council (6 to be elected) Paradise *A subsequent recount (exact tally unknown) showed both candidates tied. Pursuant to the province's ''Municipal Elections Act'', this resulted in a random draw, which resulted in Wiseman being chosen as the winner. However, Coombs made a request for a judicial recount. The judicial recount confirmed that it was indeed a tie; this led the first random draw t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Simms
Randy Simms is a former politician and radio host. He was mayor of Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador from 2007 to 2017. Simms was also host of ''Open Line'', a call-in radio talk show that airs weekday mornings on the VOCM/CFCB radio network, and a political commentator for ''The Telegram'' and CBC News. Municipal politics Simms became mayor of Mount Pearl in 2007, when the previous mayor, Steve Kent stepped down to represent the district of Mount Pearl North in the House of Assembly. He was re-elected by acclaimation in the 2009 and 2013 elections. Simms announced in May 2017 announced that he will not seek another term in the 2017 election. Provincial politics Simms' first foray into provincial politics was in the 1993 provincial election, representing the Progressive Conservative Party in the electoral district of Harbour Main. He came in second to Don Whelan, receiving 3141 votes to Whelan's 3310. In 2014, Simms joined the Liberal Office of the Official Opposit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Elections In Canada
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torbay, Newfoundland And Labrador
Torbay is a town located on the eastern side of the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The town is located north of the capital city of St. John's and is part of the St. John's metropolitan area. Due to the Torbay's close proximity to St. John's, the town's population is quickly growing. According to the 2021 census the population was 7,852, up from 7,397 in 2011. History The name Torbay comes from Torbay, Devon, England and was first mapped in 1615 by John Mason. It comes from the old Anglo-Saxon " Tor" which means "a rocky hill". Both places are geographically similar with wide-open bays that face in a northeasterly direction. An extract from Bishop Feild's journal states, "indeed there seems to be a little colony of Devon folk in Torbay." John Nutt, the pirate, settled here with his family from Devon. The community of Torbay experienced three French campaigns, the first of which occurred in December 1696. These invasions contributed to the eventual c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephenville, Newfoundland And Labrador
Stephenville (Canada 2021 Census population 6540) is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. The town functions as a local service centre for the southwestern part of the island, serving a direct population of 35,000 people from surrounding areas and over 100,000 people along the entire southwestern coast of the island. The primary employer in the town was a paper mill, which closed in 2005. Stephenville has a modern 40-bed hospital (built in 2003), schools, stores, movie theater, banks, and an International Airport (Stephenville International Airport, CYJT), year round ice free sea port (Port Harmon), and government institutions. The provincial community college system, College of the North Atlantic, is headquartered in Stephenville and maintains a campus there for students from the southwestern region of the island. The Newfoundland and Labrador Public Library system is also headquartered in Stephenville. A provincial mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Davis (politician)
Bernard Davis is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in the 2015 provincial election."Full list of winners in Newfoundland and Labrador election" , November 30, 2015. He represents the electoral district of as a member of the |
Danny Breen
Danny Breen (born ) is a Canadian politician, who is the mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He was elected in the 2017 municipal election on September 26, 2017. He was acclaimed in the 2021 municipal election. Prior to his election to the mayoralty, Breen represented Ward 1 on St. John's City Council from 2009 until 2017. He ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate for the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in a 2014 by-election in the electoral district of Virginia Waters, but was defeated by Liberal Cathy Bennett. Breen is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. Electoral history } , - , - , align="right", 1892 , align="right", 39.05 , align="right", -20.99 , - , NDP NDP may stand for: Computing * Neighbor Discovery Protocol, an Internet protocol * Nortel Discovery Protocol, a layer two Internet protocol, also called SONMP * Nondeterministic programming, a type of compute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannie Duff
Suzanne M. Duff ( Frecker; born August 22, 1936) is a Canadian politician who has served as the 12th mayor of St. John's from 1990 to 1993 and as a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly."Shannie Duff retires from St. John's city council" Newfoundland and Labrador, May 28, 2013. Politics Duff entered municipal politics in 1977 as a member of St. John's City Council. By 1982, she was[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis O'Keefe (politician)
Dennis "Doc" O'Keefe (born April 1944) is a Canadian politician who served as the 14th mayor of St. John's from 2008 to 2017 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Background O'Keefe was born and raised in St. John's, and completed his early education at St. Bonaventure's College. He went on to study at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in history, and a Bachelor of Education in 1967. in 1978, following post-graduate studies at MUN he received a master's degree (history). He went on to work as an educator for 30 years and taught at Brother Rice High School, St. Patrick's Hall and Beaconsfield High School, all in St. John's. He is a consumer activist having established the Consumer Group for Fair Gas Prices and Consumer Power. Politics O'Keefe was elected to municipal politics in 1997 as a councillor at large and was re-elected to the position in the 2001 municipal election. In 2005 he was elected deputy mayor of the cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal Cove-St
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Romans, foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena, Newfoundland And Labrador
Pasadena () is an incorporated town located in census division 5 which is in the western portion of Newfoundland, Canada. The community is situated on the shores of Deer Lake at the junction of the North Arm Valley and the Humber Valley. The town was named after Pasadena, California. The meaning of the name, according to the municipal website of the Californian town, derives from the Ojibwe (Chippewa) word for "valley". History The Town of Pasadena formerly consisted of three separate communities: South Brook, Pasadena and Midland. ;South Brook South Brook was located on the sandy shore of Deer Lake. It evolved much earlier than Pasadena, starting out in the early 1920s as a logging camp for the Bowater Company from Corner Brook. The railway also used South Brook, but only as a stop along its route across the island. In 1921, the census showed that South Brook only had a population of 6 people, within 2 families. However, South Brook area soon saw an increase in activity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Wiseman
Ralph Wiseman is a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1996 to 2003, representing the electoral district of Topsail. Wiseman was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1996 and was reelected in 1999. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Environment and as Minister of Human Resources and Employment. He was defeated by Elizabeth Marshall when he ran for reelection in 2003. In the 2005 municipal elections, he was elected mayor of the town of Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador. In the subsequent 2009 municipal elections, he was re-elected to a second term as mayor in a draw, after a series of recounts confirmed that he and challenger Kurtis Coombs had finished in an exact tie. Wiseman elected not to run in the municipal election held in September 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
