And three or four months later, I ended up reversing almost all of them in our budget. My biggest personal leadership regret was my own mishandling of the Olympics file. I should have been far more aggressive with the provincial and federal governments.
You have also talked about the importance of the mayor on the national and international stage. The fact that a small, often-frozen city on the Canadian Prairies was ranked the best city to live in in the entire Western Hemisphere by The Economist is a pretty big deal.
The other thing I will not be shy to do is to call out misinformation. So for example, one of the [mayoral] candidates, Councillor [Jeromy] Farkas, made a shocking, misleading and false, and insulting statement at a debate recently where he insinuated that city administration was skimming money from land developers.
He was the vice-chair of the audit committee. He should know better, and it is completely false. He should apologize. Throughout the pandemic, until this past summer, I have had actually a very good relationship with the Premier. There were points when we were talking several times a week, and I really do believe that at that time they were listening and they were making the right moves. Are you going to take some actual time off? Are you going to go visit a great city of the world? I am going to take some time off, and what people never realize about me — because I do have endless capacity for working — I also have an endless capacity for being lazy.
I will have no problem at all napping through the day and watching movies through the evening. He then won easily in and again in Nenshi made the announcement he won't run for re-election in during a Facebook Live session on Tuesday. After being swept into office on a wave of support dubbed the Purple Revolution — which was one of the earliest to adopt social media as a central strategy and use it to engage younger voters — Nenshi became best known for his handling of the flood , where he was seen as a calm, stable voice during what was then the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history.
He's had several other notable accomplishments, including being the first mayor to serve as grand marshal of the Calgary Pride Parade in , and being awarded the World Mayor Prize by the City Mayors Foundation — becoming the first Canadian to earn the distinction.
In December Nenshi and developer Cal Wenzel agreed to an out-of-court settlement after Wenzel launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the mayor for comments he made during a radio interview, where Nenshi likened Wenzel to the fictional Godfather mafia character.
And in , Nenshi was recorded while riding in a Lyft vehicle in Boston disparaging the then CEO of Uber, which had recently launched in the city. Nenshi has also been criticized for a number of residential tax increases during his time on council, and he has had to bring in an industrial psychologist to deal with dysfunction and infighting among councillors.
Marc Henry, who served as chief of staff to former Calgary mayor Dave Bronconnier and now runs the polling firm ThinkHQ, said he was "a little surprised then not" when he heard the news. The fact Nenshi's popularity waned in recent years, said Henry, was a natural progression most politicians experience at some point. He is a very fine speaker.
As of Tuesday morning, 10 people are registered to run for mayor in the October vote, including:. Often, she has found processes and policies exist simply because they have never been questioned.
She has come to understand that by probing and chipping away at issues, we move forward with improvements that have meaning in our everyday lives. Mayor Gondek believes that solutions to these issues must be bold, and rooted in economic, social, and environmental resilience.
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