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Plateau-Mont-Royal Borough Council
The Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council is the local governing body of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, a borough in the City of Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pea .... The council consists of seven members: the borough mayor (who also serves as a Montreal city councillor), city council representatives for each of the borough's three electoral districts, and borough council representatives for the same three districts. ''City of Montreal'', accessed 3 April 2013. The borough is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal () is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Plateau-Mont-Royal takes its name from its location on a plateau, on the eastern side of Mont-Royal and overlooking downtown Montreal, across its southern border. The borough is bordered to the south by Sherbrooke Street; to the north and north-east by the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks; and to the west by Hutchison (north of Mount Royal Avenue), Park Avenue (between Mount Royal and Pine Avenue) and University Street (south of Pine Avenue). It is the most densely populated borough in Canada, with 101,054 people living in an 8.1 square kilometre (3¼ sq. mi.) area. There is a difference between the borough, Plateau-Mont-Royal—a political division of the City of Montreal—and the neighbourhood referred to as "the Plateau". The borough includes not only the Plateau proper, but also the neighbourhoods of Mile End (bounded by Avenue du Mont-Royal to the south and the Avenue Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Boileau
Carl Boileau is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was elected to the Montreal city council in 2005 as a co-listed candidate with Projet Montréal leader Richard Bergeron, but did not serve. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council. Early life and political career Boileau was born and raised in the Plateau-Mont-Royal area and was a Parti Québécois (PQ) youth representative in the early 2000s. In 2001, he sought the PQ nomination for a by-election in the Montreal division of Mercier. This nomination contest was marked by significant divisions in the party, after early frontrunner Yves Michaud was forced to resign following a series of controversial remarks involving Quebec nationalism, immigration, and Quebec's Jewish community. Michaud's supporters, including Boileau, argued that his comments had been unfairly distorted to present him in an unflattering light. In his nomination speech, Boileau accused the PQ leadership of "dictator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Fotopoulos
Helen Fotopulos was a member of the City of Montreal executive committee and Cote des Neiges (CDN) City Councillor. She began in city politics with an unsuccessful run for office in 1978 for the Montreal Citizens' Movement in that city's Snowdon district. After serving as the MCM's cultural and intercultural affairs adviser for six years, she ran in 1994 and was elected councilor for Mile End, Having left the MCM in 1997 she joined Jean Doré's Equipe Montréal and was re-elected in 1998. In 2001 she joined with Gérald Tremblay to form Union Montréal and won three straight elections. She served two terms as Plateau-Mont-Royal Le Plateau-Mont-Royal () is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Plateau-Mont-Royal takes its name from its location on a plateau, on the eastern side of Mont-Royal and overlooking downtown Montreal, acros ... borough mayor and was then CDN city councilor. She was the executive committee member responsible fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Poulin
Christine Poulin is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 2001 to 2005 as a member of Vision Montreal (VM). City councillor She was elected to council in the 2001 municipal election for the Laurier division, defeating incumbent candidate Richard Théorêt of the Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU). MICU won a council majority in this election, and Poulin served as a member of the official opposition with Vision Montréal with former mayor of Montreal Pierre Bourque. In 2001 municipal election was the first to be held in Montreal after the city's amalgamation with neighbouring suburbs. In 2002, Poulin accused Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay of failing to decentralize administrative services in the city's pre-amalgamation borders. She was the president of the urbanism commission of borough Plateau Mont-Royal, and member of the Commission on corporate business, strategic management, human capital and ethnocultural diversity. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Labrecque
Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), Spanish former footballer and manager * ''Michel'' (TV series), a Korean animated series * German auxiliary cruiser ''Michel'' * Michel catalog, a German-language stamp catalog * St. Michael's Church, Hamburg or Michel * S:t Michel, a Finnish town in Southern Savonia, Finland People * Alain Michel (other), several people * Ambroise Michel (born 1982), French actor, director and writer. * André Michel (director), French film director and screenwriter * André Michel (lawyer), human rights and anti-corruption lawyer and opposition leader in Haiti * Anette Michel (born 1971), Mexican actress * Anneliese Michel (1952 - 1976), German Catholic woman undergone exorcism * Annett Wagner-Michel (born 1955), German Woman Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Prescott
Michel Prescott is a Canadian politician and was a city councillor in Montreal, Quebec for 27 years. City councillor Prescott was a member of the progressive Montreal Citizens' Movement, also known as Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montréal (RCM) in French. He was elected to Montreal's city council in 1982 against Civic incumbent Sidney Stevens in the district of Jeanne-Mance. Prescott was re-elected in 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998. He sat as an independent from September 1992 until 1997. Party leader In 1998 Prescott lost the RCM nomination for the mayoral election against Thérèse Daviau. But soon after, Daviau left the party and announced that she would support Jacques Duchesneau for mayor. Prescott took over as RCM nomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Montreal
Union Montreal (french: Union Montréal) is an inactive municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the governing party in the city from 2001, when it won its first election under mayor Gérald Tremblay, until 2012. The party remained the largest single party caucus in the city government until the 2013 election although it lost its majority in November 2012 due to a number of councillors quitting the party to sit as independents in the wake of Tremblay's resignation."Chaos and politicking at city hall as Union Montreal loses majority" , November 14, 2012. Since 2013, it has no longer be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Fotopulos
Helen Fotopulos was a member of the City of Montreal executive committee and Cote des Neiges (CDN) City Councillor. She began in city politics with an unsuccessful run for office in 1978 for the Montreal Citizens' Movement in that city's Snowdon district. After serving as the MCM's cultural and intercultural affairs adviser for six years, she ran in 1994 and was elected councilor for Mile End, Having left the MCM in 1997 she joined Jean Doré's Equipe Montréal and was re-elected in 1998. In 2001 she joined with Gérald Tremblay to form Union Montréal and won three straight elections. She served two terms as Plateau-Mont-Royal Le Plateau-Mont-Royal () is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Plateau-Mont-Royal takes its name from its location on a plateau, on the eastern side of Mont-Royal and overlooking downtown Montreal, acros ... borough mayor and was then CDN city councilor. She was the executive committee member responsible for c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bergeron
Richard Bergeron (born 1955) is a Canadian politician and former Montreal city councillor. He founded Projet Montréal, a municipal political party, and was its leader until 2014. He was the party's mayoralty candidate in the 2005, 2009 and 2013 municipal elections. He is a Montreal City Councillor for the Saint-Jacques district in the Ville-Marie borough and is a member of city council's ''Commission sur la mise en valeur du territoire et du patrimoine''. Background Richard Bergeron was born in 1955 in Alma, Quebec. He moved to Montreal in 1975 where he acquired a bachelor's degree in Architecture, a master's in Urban Planning, and a doctorate in Regional Planning from Université de Montréal. He has practiced architecture, been an urban planning consultant and taught at l'Institut d'urbanisme. Associated with several research projects concerning urban policy, urban services management and the environment, he has travelled in numerous countries, including Burkina Faso, Haï ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vision Montreal
Vision Montreal (french: Vision Montréal or VM) was a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1994 and dissolved in April 2014. Between 2001 and 2013 it formed the official opposition on Montreal City Council. Origins Vision Montreal was established in 1994 to promote the candidacy of the director of the Montreal Botanical Garden and then rising political star Pierre Bourque (politician), Pierre Bourque for Mayor of Montreal. Accomplishments Bourque was elected Mayor against incumbent Jean Doré in 1994, with 39 of his candidates elected to Montreal City Council. In 1998, he and his team were re-elected for a second term. The Bourque administration is credited with the following: * the introduction of a balanced city budget, with the help of the Government of Quebec, provincial government in 1998; * the revitalization of the Old Montreal historic district; * the implementation of neighbourhood programs known as ''Éco-quartiers''; such progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josée Duplessis
Josée Duplessis is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has served on the Montreal city council since 2009, representing De Lorimier as a member of Projet Montréal, and has been a member of the Montreal executive committee since November 2012. In June 2013, she was appointed as chair of the executive committee. Borough councillor Duplessis is a sociologist. Before entering political life, she ran a consulting firm that sought to improve the environmental practices of Quebec municipalities. She was elected to the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council in the 2005 municipal election as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU). Her election victory was extremely narrow; the returns office initially showed Projet Montréal candidate Émilie Thuillier elected by twelve votes, but the final scrutiny showed Duplessis elected by nine. MICU won six of the borough council's seven seats, with the remaining seat going to Projet Montréal leader Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language. In 2021, it was spoken at home by 59.1% of the population and 69.2% in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area. Overall, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
