Cynthia Block will be Saskatoon's next mayor
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Cynthia Block is the 29th mayor of Saskatoon, and the first woman elected to the position in the city's history.
Cynthia Block is the 29th mayor of Saskatoon, and the first woman elected to the position in the city's history.
Block lead with 27,415 votes by publication time, with all but two polls reporting. Runner up Gordon Wyant, had just under 19,000 votes.
Block was the only member of the previous council in the running for mayor. She represented Ward 6 for the last eight years before making her bid for the mayor’s chair.
Throughout the campaign, she fought the characterization that she was the torch bearer for outgoing mayor Charlie Clark’s old regime.
“I try to hear all sides, and then I do my homework. I read the evidence and the data that exists, and then it's a judgment call in the field,” she told CTV News in an interview earlier this month.
“That's the process that I take, and if it happens to align more or less with one colleague or another, that's never going to be how I make a decision.
“It will always be based on the foundational principles of what I think good governance looks like.”
Anyone planning to travel today is being urged to be prepared as 5 to 15 cm of snow could hit a large portion of southern Ontario.
Environment Canada has issued a winter weather travel advisory that will be in effect until Monday night.
Social workers on the front lines of homelessness in Montreal say they feel increasingly powerless as more people find themselves forced to live in tents during the winter.
Statistics Canada says the economy grew 0.3 per cent in October, helped by strength in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector, following a 0.2 per cent increase in September.
Regina's recently elected Mayor Chad Bachynski has been embracing the learning curve that comes with the role and is looking ahead to the new year, which will include finalizing the city's budget.
Elizabeth May says in all her years on Parliament Hill she has never seen anything like the last week in Canadian politics.
Manitobans can expect to see a permanent change at the gas pump as early as next week
As Canadians take time off to celebrate the holidays, many federal offices, stores and businesses will be closed across the country on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Nearly two years after a devastating fire on Boxing Day in 2022, The Papery has reopened at its original location in the heart of the Glebe.
Monday’s commute to and from work could be a snowy one for people throughout the GTA.
Montreal police (SPVM) are investigating a robbery that occurred at a Jewellery store robbery in Parc-Extension under investigation store in the Parc-Extension neighborhood on Saturday evening.