Valerie Plante

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante wants her city to be carbon neutral by 2050, making the pledge on the first day of a global summit promoting action on climate change in San Francisco.

First off, what able-bodied youngish bunch of bureaucrats at City Hall decided that holding a consultation process involving senior citizens in the middle of winter was a smart idea? There is nothing an older person fears more than a severe fall, which, at their age can lead to serious complications and quickly turn into a life-or-death situation.

Montreal's widely loathed quota system for traffic tickets is over, says Mayor Valerie Plante, as are lucrative performance bonuses for bosses that were tied to lower-level cops reaching the targets.

Beginning on Monday, January 8, 2018, Montreal's famous Ste-Catherine Street and the merchants along the busy commercial artery will be subjected to a familiar rite of passage in the metropolis: a major construction overhaul.

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.

Promising to be a "happy warrior" for Montrealers, Valérie Plante was sworn in on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, as the city's first female mayor in its 375-year history.

Montreal's first female mayor will be sworn in this afternoon, Nov. 16, 2017, in a ceremony that begins at 4 p.m. eastern.

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.”

While it is generally accepted that Montreal is experiencing a period of economic prosperity not seen in a generation, the city's mayor appears to be having a tough time ensuring he'll secure a second mandate.