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Monday, November 05, 2001
Merger was too much
Bourque's one-island, one-city dream comes true in January, but it will be Mayor Gérald Tremblay, not Bourque [now leader of the other side] who will shepherd the dream into existence.
October 17, 2001 BOURQUE TO STOP FURTHER CHALLENGES![[Version en français]](images/fr.gif)
Montreal mayor, Pierre Bourque, says he will prevent the court case against municipal mergers from going any further.
Monday, October 15, 2001 A West Island swing
Mayors running for rival lack credibility: Bourque
"The mayors don't have a clue what's going on," as he unveiled his party's election platform for the West Island.
Friday, September 21, 2001 Bourque touches all bases
Election platform makes promises to young and old, suburbs, city core
22/Sep/2001 NO NEW TAXES IN BOURQUE PLATFORM
The mayor of Montreal, Pierre Bourque, has taken the wraps off his platform for the megacity election.
Sat Aug 25 TIGHT RACE BETWEEN BOURQUE, TREMBLAY
A new poll suggests that it's shaping up to be a tight race between the
two main candidates who want to become mayor of the island of Montreal.
montreal.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/08/24/poll010824
Fri 8/10/01 7:01 AM HENRY AUBIN The Gazette
While the two giant parties led by Gerald Tremblay and Pierre Bourque have been hogging the municipal spotlight this summer, another potentially important movement has been jelling without fanfare.
This is the emergence of a "third way" - the prospect of serious candidates running as independents in the November election for seats on the megacity council. ..Karin Marks, who is running with the endorsement of the popular mayor, Peter Trent, is a shoo-in. [do we have a choise>]
...In a two-way race, the poll suggests 41 per cent of Montreal Island residents support Bourque and 37 per cent Tremblay, while 21 per cent are undecided. But SOM then asked about voting intentions if the race included Trent; he says he will not run, but his intellectual position is close to that of independents. The result: support for Bourque falls to 36 per cent and for Tremblay to 25 per cent, while the undecideds drop to 17 per cent; the anti-merger stalwart, Trent, snags 22 per cent. ..Trent in the suburbs, he ranks No. 1 with 31-per-cent support (vs. 26 and 28 per cent, respectively, for Bourque and Tremblay). Quite conceivably, then, independents with Trent-type ideas could win quite a batch of seats.
Thu 8/9/01 6:57 AM Bourque woos West Island
By: DARREN BECKER
Pierre Bourque is floating the idea of extending the metro to the West Island, an area he would govern if he were to win the Montreal megacity mayoralty this fall.
But some prominent West Islanders and Bourque opponents say it's just a bid for West Island votes by the Montreal mayor - and the metro isn't needed there anyway.
Thu 8/2/01 6:57 AM Bourque's lead fading
By: DARREN BECKER
Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque is virtually tied with Gerald Tremblay in the race to become the first megacity mayor, a new poll indicates.
The Gazette-Global Television survey, conducted by SOM between July 20 and 27, found that if the megacity election were held today and Bourque and Tremblay were the only mayoral candidates, Bourque would receive 41.3 per cent of decided-voter support and Tremblay 37.4 per cent.<
Thu 7/26/01 7:57 AM Old boys' clubs
By: JANET BAGNALL
So far, the business of choosing the candidates who'll run in the first megacity elections on Nov. 4 has been a muscular affair, what with the number of council seats being cut in half. This makes for ferocious competition. All those people used to stalking the corridors of power seem to have decided they don't want to go home and tend their gardens.
In a not-unrelated development, the number of woman candidates had been sliding rapidly downwards to a low not seen since the days of the late, unlamented Jean Drapeau. It was not until after the provincial government passed legislation in 1970 allowing women, renters and "new arrivals" to vote that more than a single woman councillor appeared in Montreal city hall.
Tue 7/24/01 6:57 AM Mayor accused of buying ethnic votes
By: DARREN BECKER
Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque is spending taxpayers' money to woo ethnic voters for the megacity election, say opposition councillors.
Since June, Bourque's executive committee has approved more than $75,000 in grants to various cultural community groups whose members have been strong supporters of the mayor in previous elections.
Thu 7/19/01 8:27 AM Tremblay narrows down list
By: LINDA GYULAI The Gazette
Gerald Tremblay hasn't placed any Help Wanted newspaper ads, but veteran and would-be municipal politicians are going through all of the usual job-seeking rigmarole to become megacity council candidates.
They must submit a curriculum vitae. Some, but not all, are invited to an interview with a selection committee. Sometimes they're called back for another.
mont-Mayor-GeraldTremblay.htm
Mon 7/16/01 7:27 AM This 'bungler' is nobody's fool
By: LINDA GYULAI
Pierre Bourque is not as foolish as he looks.
You can admit it: he makes you laugh.
Fri 7/13/01 9:59 AM Bourque is the issue
One has to wonder whether Montreal mayor Pierre Bourque is being disingenuous or whether he's as pathetically naive as he sounded when he complained this week that the opposition was concentrating its attacks in the current civic election campaign on him.
The day after the two main opposition parties joined forces - the first sign of any real threat to his election as Montreal's first megacity mayor - Mr. Bourque bemoaned the concerted opposition attacks on himself and suggested such mudslinging is beneath his standards of public debate.
Fri 7/13/01 9:59 AM Hostility grist for mayor's mill
By: MIKE BOONE
Three words of free advice for Pierre Bourque's campaign strategists: Save the video. Team Bourque ought to be compiling a stack of cassette tapes recorded during the mayor's forays
into hostile territory this week. Footage shot in Montreal West, Hampstead, Cote St. Luc and Westmount will be valuable when the mayoralty campaign gets down and dirty this fall.
Mon 7/9/01 6:58 AM Danyluk's doubts about race
By: SIDHARTHA BANERJEE, ALYSON GRANT
Vera Danyluk will keep a close eye on this fall's megacity mayoral race - albeit from the comfortable confines of her home.
Danyluk, chairman of the Montreal Urban Community, confirmed yesterday she will not join forces with any of the current mayoral candidates and will not be taking part as campaigns heat up for the Nov. 4 election.
Sat 7/7/01 8:28 AM Map leads to confusion
With less than four months left before 1.3 million voters go to the polls to choose the administration of a merged Montreal, the transition committee in charge of organizing the vote has unveiled the island's electoral map. Once again, the merger machinery of the provincial government has produced a fait accompli, and once again, the taxpayers who pay for the exercise are expected to play along without input or comment.
There are bound to be howls over the redistribution of electoral boundaries, where Montreal suburbs that used to be autonomous municipalities have been recycled as boroughs and then sub-divided into municipal electoral districts. Does the sudden melding into a single borough of Montreal East's refineries and the residential Pointe aux Trembles and Rivieres des Prairies make any sense? Probably about as much as that which threw together Montreal West, Cote St. Luc and Hampstead. But common sense has no more been a hallmark of the provincial government's merger campaign than public consultation.
Sun 6/17/01 8:58 AM Prescott aims for mayoralty
By: DARREN BECKER
The Montreal Citizens' Movement yesterday selected Michel Prescott as its mayoral candidate for the megacity election amid repeated calls for a coalition to topple Mayor Pierre Bourque.
"Residents living in Montreal Island's suburbs have a lot to worry about if (Bourque) wins the election because as he's proved, his party isn't capable of running the city democratically," said Prescott, who was selected as mayoral candidate at the party's leadership convention by acclamation.
Wed 4/18/01 7:30 AM Parties meet in bid to unseat Bourque
By: LINDA GYULAI The Gazette
Negotiations to create a united alternative to Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque resume today between mayoral hopeful Gerald Tremblay and the Montreal Citizens' Movement.
Still, Tremblay says a three-way race for the mayor's job in the Nov. 4 megacity election doesn't necessarily spell doom at the polls for his team.
Notes March 2001
Wed 3/28/01 8:01 AM Pothole army gone missing
For one brief moment last week, the hearts of Montreal drivers beat a little faster, in the unexpected hope of a pothole-free transition from winter to spring. No broken axles, no blown tires, no damage to the car's chassis. It was to dream.
This fantasy was fueled by an announcement March 19 by Mayor Pierre Bourque that he was launching an around-the-clock public-works campaign to fill the city's potholes. Three hundred workers would be deployed night and day and during the weekends. It was to be the public-works equivalent of Napoleon marching on Moscow.
Wed 3/28/01 8:01 AMOn the roads to ruin
By: JANE DAVENPORT The Gazette
The Canadian Automobile Association's Quebec division is inviting long-suffering motorists to unite against the common enemy - the pothole.
Don't let potholes lurk in anonymity on Quebec roads, Claire Roy, director of public affairs for CAA-Quebec, urged drivers yesterday. Name them and shame them, on the association's Web site.
Sun 2/25/01 8:32 AM MCM ready to team up
By: LINDA GYULAI The Gazette United they win; divided they fall.
That was the message the city of Montreal's oldest municipal party - the Montreal Citizens' Movement - delivered at a party convention yesterday.
Fri 2/23/01 7:02 AM Danyluk joins race to become megacity mayor
By: LINDA GYULAI The Gazette
Montreal Urban Community chairman Vera Danyluk gingerly dropped her hat into the ring last night for the mayoralty of the megacity at a public forum held on organizing a grass-roots movement for the Nov. 4 election.
There's a proviso: Danyluk will seek the job by running in a leadership convention in late May or early June against other mayoral hopefuls from other parties and groups willing to work in an alliance against Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque, she said.
Thu 2/22/01 7:02 AM Call for unity
By: : MICHEL PRESCOTT The Gazette
There's a great desire among opponents of the present Montreal administration to unite for the coming election, rather than running divided and seeing Pierre Bourque waltz back into power.
But it remains to be seen how the opposition can get together. Here are my ideas, based on a three-pronged approach: the mayoral campaign, a common election platform and a non-aggression pact in the electoral districts.
7/Feb/2001 Bourque set for more trips By: LINDA GYULAI
Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque is taking a break from a tour of the island's future boroughs to travel abroad.
He leaves for China on Monday - his ninth trip to the country since taking office in November 1994.
75,000 people Dec 10th Say NO!
11/Dec/2000 Huge No to megacities
By: MICHAEL MAINVILLE and MONIQUE BEAUDIN; CHARLIE FIDELMAN and DARREN BECKER
Organizers of yesterday's massive rally in downtown Montreal say Premier Lucien Bouchard has no choice but to respond to the outpouring of opposition to his municipal-merger plans.
"The government cannot ignore what has happened here today," Verdun Mayor Georges Bosse said yesterday afternoon, shortly after tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against Quebec's municipal-merger plans. "I think when 75,000 people show up on a winter's day they deserve to be listened to." Merger Notes
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