Timothy A. Tierney (born October 16, 1974) is the

Ottawa city councillor The Ottawa City Council (french: Conseil municipal d'Ottawa) is the governing body of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is composed of 24 city councillors and the mayor. The mayor is elected At-large, at large, while each councillor repr ...

Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward is a city ward in Ottawa, Ontario. Located in the city's east end, the ward is bordered to the west by Blair Road from the Ottawa River to Ogilvie Road and St. Laurent Boulevard south of it, the south by the Via Rail trai ...

. He won the ward in the

2010 Ottawa municipal election The 2010 Ottawa municipal election was a municipal election that was held on October 25, 2010, to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, Ottawa-Carleton Public and Ottawa-Carleton Catholic Sch ...

, defeating the incumbent

Michel Bellemare Michel Bellemare (born July 10, 1967) is a Canadian politician and lawyer. Bellemare was a member of the City Council in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from 1994 to 2010. He served as the acting as mayor of Ottawa, while mayor Larry O'Brien faced cha ...

in a narrow contest. In the

2014 Ottawa municipal election The 2014 Ottawa municipal election was a municipal election that was held on October 27, 2014, to elect the mayor of Ottawa, Ottawa City Council and the Ottawa-Carleton Public and Catholic School Boards. The election was held on the same day as ...

Tierney won in a landslide with 82% of the vote. Tierney has lived in the Beacon Hill North neighbourhood since 1995. Prior to being elected, he served as the president of the Beacon Hill North Community Association, where he played an integral part in keeping

Colonel By Secondary School Colonel By Secondary School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school. It is located in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Gloucester in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a non-semestered school, and was the only English publi ...

open during the Ottawa East Secondary Accommodation Study in 2008 and 2009. Tierney's past political involvement included working on the

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Liberal nomination campaign in 2009 in Ottawa-Orleans and many other campaigns including Gerard Kennedy, Paul Martin, and Terry Kilrea. Tierney is the chair of the Information Technology Sub-Committee and a member of the Transit Commission, Transportation Committee, Ottawa Public Library Board, Ottawa Community Housing, and Pineview Municipal Golf Course Board of Management. He is also a longtime board member of the Gloucester Centre Minor Hockey Association, currently serving as vice president. In 2012, Tierney was elected to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities board of directors. On November 23, 2018 Tierney was charged by the Ontario Provincial Police for corrupt election practices for allegedly trying to get a political rival not to run in the 2018 municipal election. The Ottawa Citizen reported, citing sources familiar with the call, that Tierney offered in a phone call to make a donation to the food bank to dissuade election challenger Michael Schurter from registering to run in Beacon Hill-Cyrville. Tierney has denied any allegations of wrongdoing. As of September 11, 2019, all charges were withdrawn by the Crown after Tierney having apologized in Court and giving up 2 months of Councillor salary. Michael Schurter reacted by saying: “Last election Tim ran on his reputation and that’s something he may not be able to do again in the future".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tierney, Tim 1974 births Living people Algonquin College alumni Ottawa city councillors