'A pledge calling on #Montreal to be an “anti-#apartheid” city and support the Palestinian cause is factoring into the municipal election campaign, with more than 100 candidates and two party leaders supporting it.'
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local_politics/mtl-mayor-race/more-than-100-montreal-municipal-candidates-sign-pro-palestinian-pledge
#Mtl #polMtl #polMun #Palestine #Gaza #BDS #PalestineSolidarity #solidaritéAvecLaPalestine #ProjetMontréal #TransitionMontréal
What most excites me about @CraigSauve 's campaign to become mayor of #Montréal is his promise to make hats mandatory for all municipal employees.
This is exactly the sort of bold, forward-thinking policy Montréal needs. I only hope in his second term he finds a way to extend it to all Montrealers.
(For the full platform of #TransitionMontréal , see https://static1.squarespace.com/static/681c082b5745a963d13d411d/t/68fa844d570a5c0361476f31/1761248364067/Plateforme_TransitionMTL_2025.pdf .)
Soraya Martinez Ferrada: $214,002 net revenu
Luc Rabouin: $177,309 net
Craig Sauvé (Transition Montréal): $72,000 net
Both Soraya and Luc Rabouin are landlords. (I don't know about Craig Sauvé)
#electionsMunicipales #electionsMontreal #elections2025 #TransitionMontreal #CraigSauve #ProjetMontreal #EnsembleMontreal
@evan@cosocial.ca @CraigSauve@mastodon.social Hi Evan,
I'm not Craig, but I'm a fellow voter in the Plateau and I can't possibly agree with your assessment. I've lived here for 17 years now--just after Luc Ferrandez gained power--and when I moved here I supported Projet Montreal because of the ambitious programs that they proposed at the time (such as the reworking of Parc Laurier or Parc Baldwin) but after 17 years in power in PMR they have lost their steam and drifted further and further to the right, notably since the pandemic. Most of the improvements (and there are some such as more curb cutouts and the Des Pins bike path) that they have implemented since Ferrandez resigned and Rabouin became borough mayor have been incremental or things that were put into motion during the Ferrandez days. I now support, #TransitionMontreal, as its platform and people remind me much more of the old days of PM (coincidentally, when @CraigSauve@mastodon.social was a councilor) when the party had ambition for the borough.
It's surprising to me that you would criticize the only mayoral candidate who uses the fediverse (it's certainly not for the reach that he does it). The fact that your criticism is that he's "splitting the vote" is baffling when he is the only candidate who wants to fix the problem that you claim to care about by pressuring Quebec City to implement electoral reform and he is within the margin of error of the candidate your support in the latest poll (which is admittedly far too old). The logical thing to do would be to pressure Rabouin supporters to stop splitting the vote so that you wouldn't need to care about it in the future.
#mtlpoli
