{"id":1654,"date":"2013-10-17T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/17\/verdun-candidate-for-mayor-mary-ann\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:34","slug":"verdun-candidate-for-mayor-mary-ann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/17\/verdun-candidate-for-mayor-mary-ann\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdun Candidate for Mayor: Mary Ann Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELECTION ROUNDUP<\/i><\/b>
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<\/b>
\nBy Tracey Arial<\/b><\/p>\n

\nwww.arialview.ca<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nAssociation: Projet Montr\u00e9al \u2013 \u00c9quipe Bergeron<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Campaign office: 4354 Verdun Street<\/p>\n

How do you turn the mayor\u2019s job into a position of service in which you ensure that everyone in the community gets what they need?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re Mary Ann Davis, you announce your candidacy for mayor on May first and take six months off from your job to run your campaign. Then you begin volunteering for local community groups.<\/p>\n

The Verdun resident says that as her own career has twisted from psychiatric care to chef to MUHC union organizer and activist, she\u2019s watched her home community change too. She says that she wanted to take some time to find out how things are functioning on the ground.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe community groups are the heart of your community, so I need to talk to people and find out what they think,\u201d she said. \u201cWednesdays I go to hand out food baskets and get laughed at by the Quinns. I think I\u2019ve lost four pounds in a day.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Davis cleaned up green alleys, cooked meals for volunteers and attended volunteer meetings, she discovered that the major issues she faced as a community worker at the Verdun Women\u2019s Centre in 1993 still exist. The borough still provides too many referrals to Batshaw and 42% of the children who enter kindergarten don\u2019t have the language skills they need.<\/p>\n

She also visited small businesses in the borough, where her 15-year career as a chef enabled her to hold in-depth conversations about buying food, creating jobs and feeding people with the owners of the many restaurants that have put Verdun on the map. She says that they\u2019re paying too many taxes to create jobs, and that means they have to work too many hours themselves.<\/p>\n

Other small businesses are concerned that the borough regulates them too severely, something that really hit home earlier this year when fifty irregularities with towers on Nun\u2019s Island hit the news. \u201cI was flabbergasted,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve been watching Verdun change and in my mind, I thought that those problems had improved.\u201d<\/p>\n

If people vote her in as mayor, she\u2019ll begin solving those problems step by step.<\/p>\n

She has also already shown that she and her team are willing to take controversial positions. Her position on building a school on Nun\u2019s Island, for example, is to build a bigger one immediately on the Archambeault property. \u201cThe current solution isn\u2019t good for anyone,\u201d she said. \u201cThe other property has space for a school yard, a parking lot and it can grow with the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her attitude to being mayor of a community is about taking care of people. \u201cAre there enough jobs? What are the schools like? What is the air you breathe like? It\u2019s not just about condo development, it\u2019s about everything. It\u2019s not just about land, although you have to do that too. We have to take care of everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nTeam: Champlain Nun\u2019s Island<\/b><\/p>\n

Jack Kugelmass, city councillor<\/a><\/p>\n

Dolores Durbau, borough councillor<\/a><\/p>\n

Stefana Lamasanu, borough councillor<\/a><\/div>\n

\n
\nTeam: Desmarchais Crawford<\/b><\/p>\n

Sterling Downey, city councillor<\/a><\/p>\n

Marie-Andr\u00e9e Mauger, borough councillor<\/a><\/p>\n

Luc Gagnon, borough councillor<\/a><\/div>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nMary Anne Davis<\/b><\/div>\n
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