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CTV News
17-07-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Councillor Craig Sauvé enters mayoral race with new Transition Montréal party
Craig Sauvé launched his new municipal political party, Transition Montréal, Thursday morning. He will be running for mayor in the fall election. (Stéphane Giroux/CTV News) Independent councillor Craig Sauvé is throwing his name in the hat to be Montreal mayor in the fall election. Sauvé made the announcement Thursday with his new party Transition Montréal. The party is running on a progressive platform, which includes taxing the ultra-rich and putting an end to outsourcing for municipal projects. 'There is a huge appetite for a different way of doing municipal politics, a politics of solidarity, courage, and concrete action,' Sauvé said in a news release. The candidate said he plans on taxing single-family homes worth at least $3.5 million to fund initiatives dedicated to fighting homelessness. The party said it would invoke new special powers Quebec granted municipalities back in 2023 to do so. 'There's no shortage of money. It's just concentrated in too few hands while people are sleeping on the streets,' said Sauvé. 'This tax will help fund shelters and the organizations doing work on the ground.' Transition Montréal also plans on creating a municipal task force -- Infra-MTL -- to handle public works like sidewalks, speed bumps, curb extensions, paving, and bike lanes instead of outsourcing to private contractors. The party says having in-house workers handle these files will improve planning, speed up execution, and follow the Charbonneau Commission's recommendations. While Sauvé was surrounded by Transition Montréal's founding members and some supporters at a news conference Thursday morning, the party is still seeking candidates to fill its roster. It plans on running candidates in each of the city's boroughs. At City Hall, Sauvé has been outspoken on homelessness issues and the housing crisis, bringing forward motions to adopt emergency measures and increase funding for community organizations. As a representative of the Sud-Ouest borough, he supported the Maison Benoît-Labre's supervised consumption site, which may have to move locations following provincial intervention requiring such sites sites to be at least 150 metres away from schools and daycares. Sauvé was first ran with Valérie Plante's Projet Montreal and was re-elected in his Sud-Ouest riding as an independent in the 2021 municipal election. He left the party following a sexual assault allegation, which the party deemed to be unfounded.
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Protesters demand debt cancellation, climate action ahead of UN summit
By David Latona and Silvio Castellanos SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) -Activists marched in blistering heat through southern Spain's Seville on Sunday, calling for debt cancellation, climate justice and taxing the super rich on the eve of a UN summit on financing development that critics say lacks ambition and scope. The four-day meeting - held once every decade - promises to take on poverty, disease and climate change by mapping out the global framework for development. But the United States' decision to pull out and wealthy countries' shrinking appetite for foreign aid have dampened hopes that the summit will bring about significant change. Greenpeace members carried a float depicting billionaire Elon Musk as a baby wielding a chainsaw, seated atop a terrestrial globe. Others held up banners reading "Make Human Rights Great Again", "Tax justice now" or "Make polluters pay". Beauty Narteh of Ghana's Anti-Corruption Coalition said her group wanted a fairer tax system and "dignity, not handouts". Sokhna Ndiaye, of the Africa Development Interchange Network, called on the public and private sectors to be "less selfish and show more solidarity" with developing countries. Hours earlier, however, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that "the very fact that this conference is happening while conflict is raging across the globe is a reason to be hopeful". Speaking at an event by non-profit Global Citizen, Sanchez reiterated Madrid's commitment to reach 0.7% of GDP in development aid and urged other countries to do the same. Jason Braganza, executive director of pan-African advocacy group AFRODAD who took part in the year-long negotiation on the conference's final outcome document, said countries including the U.S., the European Union and Britain had obstructed efforts to organise a UN convention on sovereign debt. "It's a shame these countries have opted to protect their own interests and those of creditors over lives that are being lost," he added.
Reuters
29-06-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Protesters demand debt cancellation, climate action ahead of UN summit
SEVILLE, Spain, June 29 (Reuters) - Activists marched in blistering heat through southern Spain's Seville on Sunday, calling for debt cancellation, climate justice and taxing the super rich on the eve of a UN summit on financing development that critics say lacks ambition and scope. The four-day meeting - held once every decade - promises to take on poverty, disease and climate change by mapping out the global framework for development. But the United States' decision to pull out, opens new tab and wealthy countries' shrinking appetite for foreign aid have dampened hopes that the summit will bring about significant change. Greenpeace members carried a float depicting billionaire Elon Musk as a baby wielding a chainsaw, seated atop a terrestrial globe. Others held up banners reading "Make Human Rights Great Again", "Tax justice now" or "Make polluters pay". Beauty Narteh of Ghana's Anti-Corruption Coalition said her group wanted a fairer tax system and "dignity, not handouts". Sokhna Ndiaye, of the Africa Development Interchange Network, called on the public and private sectors to be "less selfish and show more solidarity" with developing countries. Hours earlier, however, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that "the very fact that this conference is happening while conflict is raging across the globe is a reason to be hopeful". Speaking at an event by non-profit Global Citizen, Sanchez reiterated Madrid's commitment to reach 0.7% of GDP in development aid and urged other countries to do the same. Jason Braganza, executive director of pan-African advocacy group AFRODAD who took part in the year-long negotiation on the conference's final outcome document, opens new tab, said countries including the U.S., the European Union and Britain had obstructed efforts to organise a UN convention on sovereign debt. "It's a shame these countries have opted to protect their own interests and those of creditors over lives that are being lost," he added.
