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2006 Ontario Municipal Elections
In the 2006 municipal elections in Ontario, voters in the province of Ontario, elected mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of Ontario's municipalities. These elections were regulated by thMunicipal Elections Act of Ontario Date Municipal elections in all Ontario municipalities took place on Monday, November 13, 2006 (notwithstanding advance polling arrangements). Currently municipal elections in Ontario have fixed election dates, and the next round of elections are due to take place in November, 2010. Prior to the vote in 2006, the period between elections had been 3 years. Voting Notice and Attention Candidates may have withdrawn from the race prior to November 13, 2006, and while their names may still have appeared on the ballot, voting for a withdrawn candidate resulted in a spoiled ballot and was not counted. Term lengths The Legislative Assembly of Ontario legislationBill 81, Schedule H, passed in 2006, sets the length ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Munter
Alexander Mathias Munter (born April 29, 1968) is a former Canadian politician and business owner in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). He is currently the head of the Canadian Medical Association. Early career and politics Munter became much involved in local politics in his role as editor of the ''Kanata Kourier''. He was frequently at odds with Kanata Mayor Des Adam. In August 1989, he sold his paper to Runge Newspapers Inc. for over $300,000 due to competition from the rival paper ''Kanata Standard'', but stayed on as publisher. In November 1989, Munter left the ''Kourier'' to focus on his ongoing studies in Political Science at the University of Ottawa. He worked as a political reporter for the ''Ottawa Citizen'' before and after running as a candidate of the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 1990 provincial election, contesting the riding of Carleton. Munter pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Farbridge
Karen J. Farbridge is a Canadian politician, the former Mayor and a former City Councillor of the city of Guelph, Ontario. Personal life Farbridge was born in Woking, England the oldest of three siblings. When she was three years old, she moved to Canada with her family for her father's work. Her father, Joseph Farbridge, was an aeronautical engineer who moved to Canada to work with de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. A resident of Guelph since 1979, Farbridge has an MSc and PhD in zoology from the University of Guelph. Early career Karen Farbridge worked for the Ontario Public Interest Research Group in Guelph for 10 years prior to being elected as Mayor of Guelph in 2000. Career in politics Farbridge was first elected to Guelph City Council in 1994 and served until her first election as mayor in the 2000 municipal election. She served until 2003, when she was defeated by Kate Quarrie in the 2003 municipal election, but defeated Quarrie in the 2006 municipal el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guelph
Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as The Royal City, it is roughly east of Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Ontario Highway 6, Highway 6, Ontario Highway 7, Highway 7 and Wellington County Road 124. It is the seat of Wellington County, Ontario, Wellington County, but is politically Independent city, independent of it. Guelph was established in the 1820s by Scottish novelist John Galt (novelist), John Galt, first superintendent of the Canada Company, who based his headquarters and home in the community. The area—much of which became Wellington County—was part of the Halton Block, a Crown reserve for the Six Nations Iroquois. Galt is generally considered Guelph's founder. For many years, Guelph ranked at or near the bottom of Canada's crime severity list. However, the 2017 index showed a 15% increase from 2016. It had one of the country's lowest unemployment r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rodriguez (politician)
John R. Rodriguez (February 12, 1937 – July 5, 2017) was a Canadian politician. He served as the mayor of Greater Sudbury, Ontario from 2006 to 2010 and previously represented the electoral district of Nickel Belt in the House of Commons of Canada from 1972 to 1980 and from 1984 to 1993 as a member of the New Democratic Party. Early life and career Rodriguez was born in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), and moved to Canada in 1956. He was of Portuguese descent. He attended Toronto Teachers' College, worked for a time as a teacher in St. Catharines, and moved to Coniston in Northern Ontario in 1962, where he was appointed as principal of St. Paul School. He also attended Laurentian University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Spanish Literature. Rodriguez became president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association in 1968. The following year, he led a protest outside Queen's Park to urge the provincial government of John Robarts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Courtemanche
David Courtemanche (born 7 April 1964) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the former mayor of Greater Sudbury, having served one term from 2003 to 2006. Background Courtemanche was raised in West End, Sudbury Ontario. A former student of St. Charles College, he played hockey for the Sudbury Wolves and the Kingston Canadians. Though given a tryout with the New York Rangers he chose not to pursue hockey as a career. He completed a degree in Political Studies at the University of Guelph. Courtemanche later returned to Sudbury and worked as a consultant. He was the executive director of Sudbury Heart Health from 1992 to 1997 and was a founding member of Earthcare Sudbury, a partnership between the city and various local agencies in support of a sustainable environmental policy. Councillor Courtemanche was elected to the Sudbury City Council in the 1997 municipal election and was subsequently appointed as a city representative to the Sudbury Regional Council. He chaired t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Sudbury
Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the List of the largest cities and towns in Canada by area, fifth largest in Canada. It is administratively a List of census divisions of Ontario#Single-tier municipalities, single-tier municipality and thus is not part of any district, county, or regional municipality. The City of Greater Sudbury is separate from, but entirely surrounded by the Sudbury District. The city is also referred to as "''Ville du ''" among Franco-Ontarian, Francophones. The Sudbury region was inhabited by the Ojibwe people of the Algonquin people, Algonquin group for thousands of years prior to the founding of Sudbury after the discovery of nickel and copper ore in 1883 during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Greater Sudbury was formed in 2001 by merging the cities and towns of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Eisenberger
Fred Eisenberger (born September 3, 1952) is a Canadian politician and former real estate agent who was the 57th mayor of Hamilton from 2014 to 2022. Eisenberger previously served as chair of the Hamilton Port Authority prior to his first election. He served as the 55th mayor from 2006 to 2010, and was succeeded by Bob Bratina, but was elected mayor again in 2014 and 2018 to four-year terms. Early life and background Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Eisenberger emigrated with his family to Canada when he was eight years old, entering through the iconic LIUNA Station as many immigrants did during that era. He attended Sir Winston Churchill School in Hamilton. He graduated with honours from Mohawk College. He has also taken courses at the University of Waterloo and McMaster University. Eisenberger spent three terms as one of two aldermen in Ward 5 from 1991 to 2000. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2000, placing third behind Robert E. Wade and Bob Morrow. He register ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses Burlington, Ontario, Burlington and Grimsby, Ontario, Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is situated approximately southwest of Toronto in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Conceived by George Hamilton (city founder), George Hamilton when he purchased the James Durand, Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, the town of Hamilton became the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe. On January 1, 2001, the current boundaries of Hamilton were created through the Merger (politics), amalgamation of the original city with other municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth. Residents of the city are known as Hamiltonian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Di Ianni
Larry Di Ianni (born Renzo Pasquale Di Ianni, 1948) is an Italian-Canadian politician and educator who served as the 54th mayor of Hamilton from 2003 to 2006. Prior to his tenure as mayor, he served as a town councillor in Stoney Creek and a city councillor in the amalgamated City of Hamilton. Early life Di Ianni immigrated to Canada from Abruzzo, Italy in 1956 as a boy.Dan Nolan, "Di Ianni offers continuity in bid for mayor," ''Hamilton Spectator'', April 29, 2003, pp. A03. Following his father, who had immigrated years before the family and found work at Stelco, Di Ianni and his family settled in an apartment on Cannon Street. Pressured by his mother, an assembly-line worker in a shoe factory, to receive a university education, Di Ianni graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor's degree in English and went on to receive his Master's Degree in Education from the University of Toronto soon after.Chinta Puxley, "The Candidates: Larry Di Ianni," ''Hamilton Spectator'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel McCallion
Hazel Mary Muriel McCallion (; February 14, 1921 – January 29, 2023) was a Canadian politician who served as the fifth mayor of Mississauga. First elected in November 1978, McCallion was mayor for 36 years until her retirement in 2014, making her the longest-serving mayor in the city's history. She was a successful candidate in twelve municipal elections, having been acclamation#Uncontested election, acclaimed twice and re-elected ten times. She was nicknamed "Hurricane Hazel" for her outspoken political style with reference to the Hurricane Hazel, hurricane of 1954, which had a considerable impact. When the 1979 Mississauga train derailment occurred early in her tenure, she helped oversee evacuation of 200,000 residents from the resulting explosion, fire, and spill of hazardous chemicals. Before marriage, McCallion played professional women's ice hockey while attending school in Montreal, then worked for engineering firm M.W. Kellogg Co., Canadian Kellogg, and was transferre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississauga
Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario. Situated on the north-western shore of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, it borders Toronto (Etobicoke) to the east, Brampton to the north, Milton to the northwest, and Oakville to the southwest. With a population of 717,961 as of 2021, Mississauga is the seventh-most populous municipality in Canada, third-most in Ontario, and second-most in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) after Toronto itself. However, for the first time in its history, the city's population declined according to the 2021 census, from a 2016 population of 721,599 to 717,961, a 0.5 per cent decrease. The growth of Mississauga was initially attributed to its proximity to Toronto. However, during the latter half of the 20th century, the city attracted a diverse and multicultural population. Over time, it built up a thriving, transit-oriented central business district of its own, which is now known as Mississauga City Centre. Mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
