James Cordeiro is a two term councillor, the Vice Chair of the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District, a director with the North Central Local Government Association, and the local representative on the BC Treaty Negotiations Team for the Kitsumkalum and Kitselas Agreements. As a downtown business o...
Helen Poon, 34, who served on city council for one term and ran unsuccessfully for the B.C. Liberals in the Mid-Island Pacific Rim riding in the 2020 election, died Jan. 4 A former Port Alberni councillor described as a cigar-smoking, single-malt-scotch-drinking car enthusiast i...
Rota first got into politics in 1994 when he ran as a city councillor in his hometown of North Bay. He's served as the Liberal MP for Nipissing-Timiskaming 16 years, with a brief break after losing his seat to the Conservatives in 2011. ...
I WILL PAY MY DEBTS; Pledge by Councillor Who Owes City Pounds 7,000
The September morning that Elston’s billboard went up, it received little reaction until he tweeted it out. “It wentboomon Twitter,” he said. The billboard was paint-bombed overnight; a city councillor called it hate speech. The sign company “buckled to the pressure right away” and...
Deported to Jamaica in 1927, where he settled in Kingston with his wife Amy Jacques, Garvey continued his activism and established the People's Political Party in 1929, briefly serving as a city councillor. With UNIA in increasing financial difficulty, in 1935 he relocated to London, where ...
He has a knack for catchphrases, some of them tinged with black humour. At a presentation setting out Labour’s target seats in the 2023 local elections he told shadow cabinet advisers: “Every time you or your boss visits somewhere not on this list, a Labour councillor dies.” ...
Wards 2 & 6 City Councillor John Hutton and his family were dear friends of DiMarco, and he, too, is mourning her loss. “She’s really going to be missed,” Hutton said. “She was one of a kind.” He said he knew her for more than 30 years, and they were both elected to ...
The councillor was “a beloved member of this community and an advocate for GSPS, not only through his role on city council but as a member of the Police Services Board, having served as both the chair and vice-chair,” the service said. “We are extremely saddened to hear of his deat...
Instead of disparaging Toronto city councillor James Pasternak for trying to shut down the talk at the Toronto Reference Library by “rabidly anti-Zionist activist” Norman Finkelstein, Chris Selley should have congratulated him. Pasternak is one of the very few political leaders to speak out agains...