Plante campaigned on her record leading Montreal during the pandemic and promised to focus on fighting climate change and building more social housing.

Winnipeg residents have voted to retain their mayor and keep the city's landmark intersection closed to pedestrians.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante spoke out on Sunday for the first time about a false news report that accused a local mosque of requiring female workers to leave a construction site.

The tokenism that some people suddenly fear when they see a gender-balanced council has historically favoured white men, regardless of domain. Ironically, gender parity and quotas sometimes remove mediocre men as candidates and leaders; that may explain the discomfort of those concerned with propping up the status quo.

Valérie Plante broke the glass ceiling when she was elected the first female mayor of Montreal. Who could have expected the reaction a fellow female mayor in Ontario got when she proposed a letter of congratulations?

Outgoing Montreal mayor Denis Coderre says he has no regrets as he bids farewell to his political career three days after his stunning defeat by Valerie Plante.

Does Valérie Plante owe part of her victory to the sweeping influence of the #MeToo movement and an overwhelming desire by voters to disassociate from the Old Boys’ network and an era of arrogant men steamrolling through what they wanted? Without a doubt.

Punctuating her address several times with her trademark, full-sized laugh, the newly-elected Valérie Plante said that “we have lots of work to do in the coming years,” and appealed directly to Montrealers for their help in “getting [it] done.”

“I fundamentally believe education is the great equalizer,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the 12th annual Metropolis World Congress in Montreal on Wednesday.

Mayors and experts from all over the world agree that local governments need to partner with citizens to succeed in making cities more sustainable.

As the Metropolis World Congress opens, mayors of Montreal, Berlin and Buenos Aires are advocating more cooperation and leadership from cities to integrate immigrants.

Beverage companies have hired lobbyist to deal with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre's musings about a bottled water ban.