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  Mayor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mayors may also function as the head of the city council, sometimes elected as mayor by the council rather the citizens, while day-to-day operations of the city are delegated to a professional city manager.
In Canada mayors are usually elected at large by the citizens of a municipality for a fixed term.
List of mayors of Washington, D.C. List of mayors of Akron, Ohio
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 Category:Lists of Canadian mayors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of mayors of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
List of mayors of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
List of mayors of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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 Greater Sudbury, Ontario Encyclopedia Articles @ OfficialTexts.com (Official Texts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In land area, it is now the largest city in Ontario, the seventh largest municipality in Canada, and the largest municipality in English Canada legally designated as a city.
The same year, the city approved a natural gas contract with Northern Ontario Natural Gas — the city's mayor at the time, Leo Landreville, was later forced to resign from the Supreme Court of Ontario bench after allegations that he had received stock favours in exchange for the contract.
Mayor David Courtemanche has, however, appointed former MPP Floyd Laughren to chair an advisory committee to review and make recommendations to improve the quality of city services to the outlying communities.
www.officialtexts.com /encyclopedia/Greater_Sudbury,_Ontario   (3465 words)

  
 Mayor
A mayor (Latin major "better") is the chief executive official of a city, town, or village.
In some cities, subdivisions such as arrondissements or boroughs may have their own mayors.
The longest serving mayor in the U.S. was Robert Linn, who served for 58 years as mayor of Beaver, Pennsylvania.
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 Detroit, Michigan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Municipal elections for mayor, city council and city clerk are held every year congruent to 1 modulo 4 (meaning 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009).Ward, George E. (July 1993).
When Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick found himself behind in the polls in the 2005 election, his campaign tried to draw attention to his opponent's, Freeman Hendrix, support in the suburbs.
Windsor radio stations CIMX 88.7 and CBC 89.9 can also be heard in the Detroit area.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Detroit,_Michigan   (5580 words)

  
 London, Ontario Encyclopedia Articles @ GodsTunes.com (God's Tunes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
With the rest of Southwestern Ontario which was part of this settlement, it benefited from Talbot's provisions for building and maintaining roads and for assignment of priority for access to main roads to productive land (rather than to Crown and clergy reserves, which received preference in the rest of Ontario).
London is also home to the Museum of Archaeology, owned by the University of Western Ontario (UWO), with a reconstructed Iroquois village, the McIntosh Gallery which is an art gallery on the UWO campus and The Grand Theatre which is a professional theatre with a secondary stage named the McManus Studio.
Bruce - Dufferin - Elgin - Essex - Frontenac - Grey - Haliburton - Hastings - Huron - Lambton - Lanark - Leeds and Grenville - Lennox and Addington - Middlesex - Northumberland - Perth - Peterborough - Prescott and Russell - Renfrew - Simcoe - Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry - Wellington
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 Windsor, Ontario - Enpsychlopedia
Windsor was first settled in 1749 after farms started getting too far from the protection of a fort in Detroit making it the oldest continually inhabited European city in Canada, west of the Quebec border.
Windsor was established as a village in 1854, then a town in 1858, and ultimately gained city status in 1892.
Windsor was a major entry point into Canada for refugees from slavery via the Underground Railroad and a major source of liquor during American Prohibition.
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 Kingston, Ontario - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
During the War of 1812, Kingston was the base for the Lake Ontario division of the Great Lakes British naval fleet and engaged in a vigorous arms race with the American fleet based at Sackett's Harbor, New York for control of Lake Ontario.
Kingston is represented in the Ontario Hockey League by the Kingston Frontenacs.
In mid-2001, 14.1 per cent of the resident population in Kingston were of retirement age (65 and over for males and females) compared with 13.2 per cent in Canada, therefore, the average age is 38.1 years of age comparing to 37.6 years of age for all of Canada.
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 OTTAWA : Encyclopedia Entry
Ottawa, Ontario, is the capital of Canada, and the country's fourth largest city.
It is located in the Ottawa Valley on the eastern edge of the province of Ontario, right at the border with Quebec, about 400 km (250 miles) east of Toronto and 190 km (120 miles) west of Montreal.
It was intended to provide a secure route between Montreal and Kingston on Lake Ontario, by-passing the stretch of the St. Lawrence River bordering New York State (with the 1812 conflict with the U.S.A. being in recent memory).
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 Mississauga, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Searle was defeated by then-city councillor and former mayor of Streetsville, Hazel McCallion.
Mississauga\'s City Council is comprised of the mayor and nine city councillors, each representing one of the city\'s nine (soon to be eleven) wards.
Mississauga is bound by Oakville, Ontario and Milton, Ontario to the west, Brampton, Ontario to the north, Toronto to the east, and Lake Ontario to the south.
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 Detroit:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Windsor replaced acres of train tracks and some abandoned buildings with what is now 3 miles (5 km) of uninterrupted parkland.
Municipal elections for mayor, city council and city clerk are held every year congruent to 1 modulo 4 (meaning 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009).
When Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick found himself behind in the polls in the 2005 election, his campaign tried to draw attention to the support his opponent, Freman Hendrix, received in the suburbs.
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 Thunder Bay, Ontario - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The city was formed in 1970 by the merger of the cities of Fort William, Ontario, Port Arthur, Ontario and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre.
In mid-2001, 15.0 per cent of the resident population in Thunder Bay were of retirement age (65 and over for males and females) compared with 13.2 per cent in Canada, therefore, the average age is 39.1 years of age comparing to 37.6 years of age for all of Canada.
The mayor and five of the councillors are elected at large by the whole city.
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 Brampton, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion expressed feelings that her city was being dragged down by Brampton, as the seating in the Peel council does not reflect the population imbalance between the cities.
Its commissioner is Brampton, Ontario mayor Susan Fennell; she has held the position since at least 2000.
Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell is founder and commissioner of the NWHL women\'s hockey league, whose teams include the Brampton Thunder, many of whose players have competed and won at the Olympics.
www.gilroycaus.com /section/Brampton,_Ontario   (3850 words)

  
 Doors Open Ontario - Doors Open Windsor 2006
Windsor's oldest building, it was built in 1798 for fur trader Alexander Duff.
It was home to Sandwich mayors George W. Mason and his two sons and to wealthy tobacco merchant Francis Girardot.
The Ontario Heritage Trust is an agency of the Ministry of Culture.
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 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The 19th-century buildings and streetscape of the Old West Side neighborhood have been preserved virtually intact; in 1972, the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it is further protected via city ordinances and a nonprofit preservation group.
The mayor, who is elected every even-numbered year, is the presiding officer of the City Council and has the power to appoint all Council committee members as well as board and commission members, with the approval of the City Council.
Additionally, Willow Run Airport in nearby Ypsilanti serves freight, corporate, and general aviation clients, and some people use Windsor Airport, 50 miles (80 km) east of the city, for commercial flight as it can actually be a shorter trip than the Detroit airport depending on traffic.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan   (4957 words)

  
 NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY : Encyclopedia Entry
One was the massive unpopularity of NDP provincial governments under Bob Rae in Ontario (which was heavily defeated in 1995) and Michael Harcourt in British Columbia.
In the May 2002 by-elections, Brian Masse won the riding of Windsor West in Windsor, Ontario, previously held for decades by a Liberal, former Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray.
A key example of this was Buzz Hargrove's expulsion by the Ontario New Democratic Party after he backed Paul Martin in the 2006 election, which automatically terminated his membership in the federal party as well.
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 Kingston_Ontario - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Kingston, Ontario, is a city in Canada located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St.
During the War of 1812, Kingston was the base for the Lake Ontario division of the Great Lakes British naval fleet which engaged in a vigorous arms race with the American fleet based at Sackett's Harbor, New York for control of Lake Ontario.
Kingston's location at the Rideau Canal entrance to Lake Ontario, after canal construction was completed in 1832, made it the primary military and economic centre of Upper Canada.
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 Detroit, Michigan - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
"River of the Strait" — and across from the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario, the city is the seat of Wayne County and the center of a tri-county industrial zone (including Oakland and Macomb counties) that is among the most significant in the American Rust Belt.
It lies north of Windsor, Ontario—Detroiters sometimes quip that Canada is "our neighbor to the south." Detroit features two public border crossings, the Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, with a railroad tunnel also connecting the two countries.
Listed as the second most dangerous city by the Morgan Quitno Corporation's statistics http://www.morganquitno.com/, Detroit has been one of the most crime-ridden cities in the United States.
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 City Mayors: Toronto election
City Mayors lists and features urban events, conferences and conventions aimed at urban decision makers and those with an interst in cities worldwide.
The drama of some of the events and issues in the Toronto mayoral race was counterpointed throughout much of the rest of the province by elections in which evidence of excitement was hard to come by, which may have had something to do with the extremely low level of participation.
To the surprise of many, Wayne Thomson, mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario for 17 nonconsecutive years, was replaced by Ted Salci, former President of the Chamber of Commerce.
www.citymayors.com /report/toronto_election.html   (1420 words)

  
 Detroit, Michigan - Enpsychlopedia
It lies north of Windsor, Ontario, which is often referred to by residents of the city as their "neighbor to the south." Detroit features two border crossings: the privately-owned Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel that has motor vehicle and railroad access to and from Canada.
With a charter adopted on July 1, 1974, the city is run by the mayor and city council, the latter being full-time legislators elected at-large on a nonpartisan ballot.
Elected first in 2001, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, son of Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, has been dubbed as "America's hip-hop mayor" because of his fondness for youth culture, flashy dress and a diamond stud earring as well as his sponsorship of a "hip-hop" summit.
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 The Canadian Blog Exchange - Regional Issues::Ontario
If the NDP ever wants to be a real force in Ontario politics again, they have to stop rallying their "base" of communists and ubersocialists.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty today showed his contempt for a resolution introduced by Conservative Leader John Toryin the Ontario Legislature calling for a public inquiry into the McGuinty government?s mishandling of the Caledonia Native Protests and Vandalism which was passed last night.
The native/non-native standoff in Caledonia is putting hundreds of thousands of Ontario homes and businesses at risk of brownouts or flouts this summer due to the delays of the Niagara line reinforcement which once completed will provide for an additional 800 megawatts of import capability to the Niagara Peninsula.
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 "Road Salts" should not be "toxic" substances; "no further action" is required on the ...
That is the recommendation of the Mayors of Windsor and Goderich who have written you urging his support for application of Section 77(2)(a).
A few months ago, the Courts in Ontario awarded $6 million in a case where a person was injured due to inadequate road salt use.
Any step towards listing as toxic substance, built on a federal command and control model, would be a step backward and may undermine the very progress that Environment Canada is seeking.
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 Detroit, Michigan
Listed as the second most dangerous city by the Morgan Quitno Corporation's statistics [3] (after Camden, New Jersey), Detroit has been one of the most crime-ridden cities in the United States.
The city is run by the mayor and a nine member city council, elected at large on a nonpartisan ballot.
Considered by some to be a rising political star when he won election in 2001, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been dubbed by wags as "America's hip-hop mayor" because of his fond appreciation for youth culture.
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 Mayor - Definition, explanation
Until a new Mayor is elected, the City Council nominated and approved Councilmember Toni Atkins to the Deputy Mayor position and Councilmember Jim Madaffer as Mayor Pro Tem until the November 8th Special Election takes place.
Until a new Mayor is elected, the City Council nominated and approved Councilmember Toni Atkins to the Deputy Mayor position and Councilmember Jim Madaffer as Mayor...
Clearwater's new mayor, Brian Aungst, speaks of his intentions regarding the...
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 Thunder Bay, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In mid-2001, 15.0% of the resident population in Thunder Bay were of retirement age (65 and over for males and females) compared with 13.2% in Canada, therefore, the average age is 39.1 years of age comparing to 37.6 years of age for all of Canada.
Thunder Bay is represented in the Canadian Parliament by Joe Comuzzi (Liberal) and Ken Boshcoff (Liberal), and in the Ontario Legislature by Michael Gravelle (Liberal) and Bill Mauro (Liberal).
Thunder Bay's name is the result of a mishandled referendum held on June 23rd, 1969 to determine the new name of the amalgamated Fort William and Port Arthur.
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 Help.com - detroit michigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In 2005, Detroit's architecture was heralded as some of America's finest; many of the city's architecturally significant buildings are listed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as among America's most endangered landmarks.
Detroit is also trying to rebuild its riverfront to make it similar to the park directly across the river in Windsor, Ontario.
Windsor radio stations CIMX 88.7 and CBC 89.9 can be heard in the Detroit area.
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 London, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor with a metropolitan area population of 432,451; the city proper had a population of 336,539 in the 2001 Canadian census.
London is currently home to the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, which plays at the John Labatt Centre, the host arena of the 2005 Memorial Cup, and were both 2004-2005 OHL and Memorial Cup Champions.
London is present at the junction of two major highways: the 401 (the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway, connecting Windsor to Montreal) and the 402 (connecting London to Sarnia).
www.santacruzcaus.com /section/London,_Ontario   (4814 words)

  
 Top20Detroit.com - Your Top20Guide to Detroit, MI.
Considered by some to be a rising political star when he won election in 2001 at age 31, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been dubbed by wags as "America's hip-hop mayor" because of his fond appreciation for youth culture, flashy dress, and a diamond stud earring as well his sponsorship of a "hip-hop" summit.
Listed as the second most dangerous city by the Morgan Quitno Corporation's statistics [11] (after Camden, New Jersey), Detroit has been one of the most crime-ridden cities in the United States.
In 1999, the Michigan legislature removed the locally elected board and replaced it with a board appointed by the mayor and governor, with the board selecting a CEO to run the schools.
top20detroit.com   (5234 words)

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