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Josée Néron
Josée Néron is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Saguenay, Quebec, Saguenay, Quebec in the 2017 Quebec municipal elections, 2017 municipal election. She is the second mayor, and the first female mayor, of the city since the municipal amalgamation in 2002. Prior to her election as mayor, Néron served on Saguenay City Council. References Mayors of Saguenay, Quebec Women mayors of places in Quebec Living people 21st-century Canadian women politicians Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century mayors of places in Quebec {{Quebec-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saguenay, Quebec
Saguenay ( , , ) is a city in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about north of Quebec City by overland route. It is about upriver and northwest of Tadoussac, located at the confluence with the St. Lawrence River. It was formed in 2002 by merging the cities of Chicoutimi and Jonquière and the town of La Baie, Quebec, La Baie. Chicoutimi was founded by French colonists in 1676. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 148,000 and the metropolitan area had a population of 170,000. The city of Saguenay constitutes a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE); its geographical code is 941. Together with the regional county municipality of Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, Le Fjord-du-Saguenay, it forms the Census geographic units of Canada, census division (CD) of Le Saguenay-et-son-Fjord (94). The mayor of Saguenay since 2021 is Julie Dufour (politician), Julie Dufour. Prior to its use as the nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Tremblay
Jean Tremblay (born November 29, 1948) is a Canadian businessman and politician who was mayor of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, from 2002 to 2017. Before that he was mayor of Chicoutimi since 1996. Tremblay received international attention from his fight to maintain the saying of Catholic prayers before city council meeting. The Canadian Supreme Court. In '' Mouvement laïque québécois v Saguenay (City)'' (2015) ruled against the city. Tremblay was born in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. He is a notary by profession and a businessman. After the municipal reorganizations in Quebec, on 1 January 2002 he became the first magistrate of the new city of Saguenay. Tremblay was reelected in November 2005, receiving 72% of the vote, and again in November 2009 with 78% support, described as a "dazzling victory." In 2013, Tremblay received 63% of the vote. Tremblay worked to attract more cruise ships to the region. He also attempted to recover taxes owed by private hydroele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Dufour (politician)
Julie Dufour (born c. 1980) is a Canadian politician. She has served as the mayor of Saguenay, Quebec since 2021. Early career Dufour holds college diplomas in human sciences from the Cégep de Chicoutimi and in special education technology the Cégep de Jonquière. She has also received university credits from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in administration, secondary education and psychology. Prior to being elected, Dufour worked at a youth shelter from 2001 to 2008 and as a specialized educator at the Commission scolaire de la Jonquière from 2008 to 2013. While working for the school board, she also worked for the Cégep de Jonquière. Political career Dufour was first elected to Saguenay City Council in the 2013 municipal elections representing District 8, which covered the former municipality of Shipshaw. She defeated incumbent councillor Fabien Hovington by about 100 votes. During her first term of office, she was well known for her opposition to mayor Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Quebec Municipal Elections
The Canadian province of Quebec held municipal elections in its municipalities on November 5, 2017. Results by region: Note: (X) refers to being an incumbent Bas-Saint-Laurent Amqui La Pocatière Matane Mont-Joli Rimouski Mayor Rimouski City Council Rivière-du-Loup Saint-Épiphane Trois-Pistoles Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Alma Dolbeau-Mistassini Roberval Saguenay Mayor Saguenay City Council By-election A by-election was held in District #1 on December 15, 2019. The results were as follows: Saint-Félicien Saint-Honoré Capitale-Nationale Baie-Saint-Paul Boischatel Donnacona La Malbaie L'Ancienne-Lorette By-election A mayoral by-election was held December 13, 2020 to replace Loranger. Lac-Beauport Les Éboulements The mayoral campaign in Les Éboulements was noted for the unusual fact that both candidates had the same name, Pierre Tremblay. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941 by the public broadcaster, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in Canada and has local, regional, and national broadcasts and stations. It frequently collaborates with its organizationally separate French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info. History The first CBC newscast was a bilingual radio report on November 2, 1936. The CBC News Service was inaugurated during World War II on January 1, 1941, when Dan McArthur, chief news editor, had Wells Ritchie prepare for the announcer Charles Jennings a national report at 8:00 pm. Previously, CBC relied on The Canadian Press to provide it with wire copy for its news bulletins. Readers who followed Jennings were Lorne Greene, Frank Herbert and Earl Cameron. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saguenay City Council
The Saguenay City Council (in French: ''Conseil municipal de la Ville de Saguenay'') is the governing body for the mayor–council government in the city of Saguenay, in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. Mayor #Jean Tremblay, Independent (2002–2017) #Josée Néron, Équipe du renouveau démocratique (2017–2021) # Julie Dufour, Independent (2021–present) Councillors ''As of the 2021 Quebec municipal elections'' Jonquière Borough District 1: Jimmy Bouchard, Independent District 2: Claude Bouchard, Independent District 3: Michel Thiffault, Independent District 4: Kevin Armstrong, Independent District 5: Carl Dufour, Independent - borough president District 6: Jean-Marc Crevier, Independent Chicoutimi Chicoutimi ( , ) is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayors Of Saguenay, Quebec
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Mayors Of Places In Quebec
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Living People
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21st-century Canadian Women Politicians
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