Timmins swears-in new mayor and council
The new mayor and council for the City of Timmins was sworn-in Tuesday evening.
Michelle Boileau and seven of the eight councillors pledged their allegiance to do right by their constituents.
Michelle Boileau, the newly-elected Timmins mayor, is the third female to hold the position and first bilingual in decades. Nov. 15/22 (Lydia Chubak/CTV Northern Ontario)
Councillor Kristin Murray, who served as the city's interim mayor when George Pirie was elected MPP for the area this summer, was absent.
Boileau and the councillors were piped into the council chambers where they will discuss and debate issues such as homelessness and a housing shortage over the next four-year term.
New mayor and counil for City of Timmins is sworn in during first meeting. Nov. 15/22 (Lydia Chubak/CTV Northern Ontario)
"I know over the next few weeks there’s been a lot of requests for meetings with me, so I’ll just be meeting with different groups to see what everyone else is working on, you know, what the priorities are," said Boileau.
"We do have some ministerial announcements coming up from what I hear and, potentially, meeting in Toronto with an associate minister of housing."
All members, but one -- business owner Lorne Feldman -- come to the table with prior council experience, including former Mayor Steve Black.
"I’m happy to be nominated to the police board," said Black.
"I think a major part of my campaign was community safety. That’s a board that has a lot of influence on how community safety is handled. I look forward to getting back to that table and working with the board over there to see what we can do about improving the safety throughout our community."
The next meeting for this new council will be Dec. 6.
Read more about how municipal governments work in Ontario here.
Find out how population density affects municipal budgets here.
CTV News spoke with some outgoing and former politicians in northeastern Ontario. Hhttps://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/northeastern-ontario-politicians-reflect-on-their-time-at-city-hall-1.6116366ere is what they learned from their time in office.
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
![](https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.6977053.1721909931!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_800/image.jpg)
'Sick to my stomach': People grieve Jasper National Park by sharing favourite photos
As an out-of-control wildfire roared through Alberta’s famed Jasper National Park and its townsite late Wednesday, many are fearing the worst as officials warned of 'significant loss' within the area.
DEVELOPING Jasper wildfire burns buildings, while poor air quality forces some fire crews out
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on social media that Ottawa has approved Alberta's request for federal assistance after a fast-moving wildfire hit Jasper National Park and its townsite late Wednesday.
Canadian women's soccer team staffer given suspended prison sentence over drone incident, prosecutor says
A Canada women's soccer team staffer has been given an eight-month suspended prison sentence after flying a drone to film the closed-door training session of the New Zealand team on Monday, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Sale of envoy's NYC condo 'expected to exceed' $9M: government
The current official residence for Canada's representative in New York City is 'being readied for sale,' according to a spokesperson from Global Affairs Canada.
'I'm so broke': Two Toronto women speak out after losing $76,000 in romance scam
Two women from the Toronto area are speaking out after losing thousands of dollars to a romance scam, including a single mother who lost $62,000.
Barrie-Innisfil MPP 'blacked-out' and crashed car into window of child care centre
Staff at a Barrie child care centre say they are frustrated by what they call a local MPP's inadequate response after a car crashed through a window in one of the toddler rooms.
Loblaw, George Weston to settle class action over bread price-fixing for $500 million
Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. say they have agreed to pay $500-million to settle a class-action lawsuit regarding their involvement in an alleged bread price-fixing scheme.
EXCLUSIVE One address, 76 foreign currency dealers: Inside Canada's money service business 'clusters'
An IJF and CTV News investigation has found dozens of cases across Canada where multiple money services businesses (MSBs) are incorporated at the same address, sometimes without the knowledge or consent of the location's actual occupant. One money laundering expert calls it an 'abuse of the system.'
An unwelcome attendee has joined the Paris Olympic Games: COVID-19
After a handful of Australian water polo players tested positive for COVID-19 this week, questions have emerged around how the spread of the disease will be mitigated at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris.