Longueuil is a city in the province of Quebec,Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly across from Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census totalled 254,483,making it Montreal's second largest suburb,the fifth most populous city in Quebec and twentieth largest in Canada.
Saint-Lambert is a city in southwestern Quebec,Canada,located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River,opposite Montreal. It is part of the Urban agglomeration of Longueuil of the Montérégie administrative region.
Brossard is a municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec,Canada and is part of the Greater Montreal area. According to the 2021 census,Brossard's population was 91,525. It shares powers with the urban agglomeration of Longueuil and was a borough of the municipality of Longueuil from 2002 to 2006.
Longueuil station,officially Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke station,is a Montreal Metro station in Longueuil,Quebec,Canada. It is operated by the Sociétéde transport de Montréal (STM) and is the southern terminus of the Yellow Line. It is connected to a campus of Universitéde Sherbrooke,as well as the largest bus station in Greater Montreal,Terminus Longueuil.
Joseph Mario Jacques Olivier,PC is a Canadian politician,businessman and labour leader. He was mayor of Longueuil,Quebec,from 2001 until 2005 and is a former Member of Parliament.
The Canadian province of Quebec held municipal elections in its municipalities on November 6,2005.
Claude Gladu is the former mayor of the city of Longueuil,Quebec. He served as mayor from 1994 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2009.
Fatima Houda-Pepin is a Quebec politician and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec,Canada. She represented the La Pinière electoral district between 1994 and 2014,and was a member from the Quebec Liberal Party until 2014.
The Province of Quebec is divided into entities that deliver local government,along with other types of functional divisions.
The Longueuil Ducs are a junior baseball team that play in the Ligue de Baseball Élite du Québec. The Ducs play their home games at Parc Paul-Pratt in Longueuil,Quebec,Canada. Established in 1957 by former Montreal Canadiens star Émile Bouchard as the Longueuil Junior,the team was later renamed the Longueuil Marquis,before settling on its current name,the Longueuil Ducs. The Ducs are one of the oldest baseball clubs in the province of Quebec.
Le Courrier du Sud is a free French-language weekly tabloid newspaper based in Longueuil,Quebec,Canada. The newspaper is distributed to 143,992 homes in the cities of Longueuil,Brossard and Saint-Lambert. 'Le Courrier du Sud is owned by Transcontinental. It was established in 1947 by Jean-Paul Auclair in the former city of Montreal South as a bilingual newspaper.
The Quebec Liberal Party fielded a full slate of 125 candidates in the 2007 Quebec provincial election,and elected forty-eight members to form a minority government after the election. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages;information about others may be found here.
Chantal Rossi is a politician in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. She has served on the Montreal city council since 2013 as a member of Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal. She was previously a borough councillor in Montréal-Nord from 2009 to 2013 and an elected trustee on the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île from 1998 to 2014.
The Boisédu Tremblay is a wooded area in Longueuil,Quebec,Canada. The wooded area is located partially in the borough of Le Vieux-Longueuil and partially within the city of Boucherville.
The Réseau express métropolitain is a light metro rapid transit system in Greater Montreal,Quebec,Canada. It consists of five stations and connects Downtown Montreal with the suburb of Brossard. Extensions to the western Montreal suburbs and Montréal–Trudeau International Airport are under construction and will open in two stages in 2025 and 2027. A portion of the route was taken over from the Exo commuter rail Deux-Montagnes line and is being converted to light metro standards.
Marcel Robidas was a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. Best known for serving as mayor of Longueuil from 1966 to 1982,Robidas was also a prominent supporter of Quebec sovereignty.
New Life church is an Evangelical Pentecostal multi-site megachurch based in Longueuil,Quebec,Canada,affiliated with the Christian Association for the Francophonie. Its senior pastor is Claude Houde.
Sylvie Parent is a Canadian politician. She was mayor of Longueuil,Quebec from November 5,2017 to November 14,2021. She was the second female mayor in the city's history.
Municipal elections were held in the city of Montreal,Quebec,Canada on November 7,2021,as part of the 2021 Quebec municipal elections. Voters elected 103 representatives in a first-past-the-post electoral system. The general election decides the majority composition of the city council and each of the 19 borough councils. The newly elected mayor appoints 2 city councillors for the Ville-Marie borough. In total,18 borough mayors,46 city councillors and 38 borough councillors were elected.
