{"id":2950,"date":"2013-10-27T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2013-10-27T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T15:41:59","slug":"montreal-mayor-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreal-mayor-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Debates for Montreal Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2032\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2032\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreals-development-plan\/municipalities1600small\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?fit=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,173\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"municipalities1600small\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This is how Montreal was divided municipally in 1600.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?fit=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-2032 \" title=\"Montreal1600\" alt=\"debate-map\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?resize=300%2C173\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?resize=150%2C86&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?resize=96%2C55&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is how Montreal was divided municipally in 1600.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several debates have occurred among the many candidates for Montreal mayor during this campaign. Most are available online.<\/p>\n<h2>CBC\/McGill<\/h2>\n<p>The English CBC\/McGill Debate that took place on October 22 is available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/montreal\/features\/municipal-elections-2013\/debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/montreal\/features\/municipal-elections-2013\/debate\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there are two debates I already covered.<\/p>\n<p>There were several things I noticed about the first two debates mentioned below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The candidates all speak English well, even Richard Bergeron, who claims not to;<\/li>\n<li>Transportation, infrastructure and governance are the biggest differences \u00a0between candidates so far;<\/li>\n<li>Mme. Joly\u2019s presence is an advantage; \u00a0and<\/li>\n<li>Denis Coderre sounds the same in English as he does in French, but the other candidates sound like different people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Radio Canada in French<\/h2>\n<p>On August 20, Radio Canada downloaded their French debate at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W2C13p-zd0k\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W2C13p-zd0k<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>CTV\/CJAD Debate in English<\/h2>\n<p>On August 16, CTV and CJAD&#8217;s English debate took place among what they considered the top three candidates: Marcel C\u00f4t\u00e9, Denis Coderre and Richard Bergeron.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the debate in four parts here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/video?playlistId=1.1485940\">http:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/video?playlistId=1.1485940<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/span>Institute of Nouveau Monde Debate about Youth Issues<\/h2>\n<p>Want to see the first debate between four of the twelve mayoralty candidates in Montreal? A French debate between Marcel C\u00f4t\u00e9, Denis Coderre, Richard Bergeron and M\u00e9lanie Joly took place on August 16 at the Institute of Nouveau Monde summer school.<\/p>\n<p>Michel Benoit and Michel Brul\u00e9 were in the room, as was Louise Harel.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the two hour debate focussing on youth and participation here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inm.qc.ca\/ee2013\/debat\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.inm.qc.ca\/ee2013\/debat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The election takes place on Sunday, November 3. Most residents will have at least two votes (like those who live in Ville Marie). Some (like Verdun and LaSalle residents) will have as many as five. Everyone gets to vote for mayor of the city and a local city representative. People who live in boroughs also get to vote for one or two borough representatives and a borough mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several debates have occurred among the many candidates for Montreal mayor during this campaign. Most are available online. CBC\/McGill The English CBC\/McGill Debate that took place on October 22 is available at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/montreal\/features\/municipal-elections-2013\/debate\/ Then there are two debates I already covered. There were several things I noticed about the first two debates mentioned below: The candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-LA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3066,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/laval-mayoralty-candidates-debate-coops\/","url_meta":{"origin":2950,"position":0},"title":"Laval Mayoralty Candidates Debate Coops","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"November 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Seven said they\u2019d be there, but in the end, only four candidates for Laval mayor participated in a debate about cooperatives last week. 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