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Evelyne Reese

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Reese supported various plans to expand recreational space at Whittier Park in her ward. She opposed Al Golden's 1993 proposal to remove a baseball diamond from an historical site on the park grounds, arguing that the field was needed for children's recreation. She was later skeptical of a proposal
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with downtown Winnipeg, arguing that it would create traffic problems for her ward. Reese made several attempts to have an abandoned Canada Packers plant in her ward demolished, without success. In 1995, she called for suburban zoning to be expanded to allow for rooming houses in single-family
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team during most of her time on council. She shifted to a pro-arena position for an important May 1995 vote, but later returned to the opposition camp when various complications emerged. The Jets eventually left the city when an agreement for the arena could not be reached. Jim Silver later
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into the mismanaged prosecution of a Winnipeg attorney for what turned out to be an unfounded accusation of sexual assault. Reese argued that Hughes singled out the police for criticism, and did not adequately address problems in the provincial justice department.
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She opposed the extension of employee benefits to the same-sex partners of civic employees in 1994, arguing that the city was not under a legal obligation to extend the benefits as same-sex partnerships were not "spousal relationships".
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group. She was appointed as deputy speaker of Winnipeg City Council in November 1993, and later served as acting chair of the city's riverbank management committee.
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bonus for welfare recipients in late 1993. She also opposed councillor Al Golden's plan to create an eight-lane bridge linking St. Boniface and
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Reese left Winnipeg in the '90s (WIN) in 1994, citing policy differences. She was defeated by WIN-endorsed candidate Dan Vandal in the
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of the Old St. Boniface Residents Association, who argued that the plan would create several traffic problems for the area.
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remove gasoline-contaminated soil from a site in her ward. She also criticized a report by retired judge
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Bruce Owen, "Police 'hung out to dry' by Hughes, several city councillors complain",
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Nick Martin, "Jets-arena debacle not the first, but city just didn't learn lesson",
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Chris Smith, "Councillors seek way to demolish packing plant St. Boniface",
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ward of Winakwa. She was endorsed by a centre-left group called the
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Nick Martin, "Turn Riel's birthplace into historic site: activist",
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for Winnipeg, and strongly criticized a plan to cut a traditional
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Reese was re-elected for the redistributed St. Boniface ward in
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Dan Lett, "Same-sex benefits leave councillors sputtering",
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Thin Ice: Money, Politics and the Demise of an NHL Franchise
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Reese was first elected to the Winnipeg City Council in the
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Reese opposed spending public money on a new arena for the
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in the redistributed Langevin ward. She was re-elected in
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Glora Taylor, "File application or else, Petro Can told",
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Reese was nominated as the Liberal Party candidate for
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She was opposed in this initiative by 81:with a victory over incumbent councillor 296:"Councillors refuse to cut dole bonus", 257:Dan Lett, "Alliance approves postings", 56:Independent Citizens' Election Committee 224: 35:on two occasions as a candidate of the 283:Dan Lett, "Sunday decision resented", 530:Women municipal councillors in Canada 309:Dan Lett, "Big bridges to go ahead", 7: 403:, 15 October 1994; "Count her out", 193:in May 1994, in anticipation of the 100:, but was returned over Dacquay in 31:for fifteen years, and ran for the 73:. She was not a candidate in the 14: 474:, "Ridings hold hope for Grits", 33:Legislative Assembly of Manitoba 124:as a candidate of the renamed 1: 77:, but returned to council in 62:, and finished third against 27:, Canada. She served on the 447:Same-sex marriage in Canada 19:is a retired politician in 551: 525:Women in Manitoba politics 500:"Women figure in upsets", 178:published a book entitled 58:. 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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Winnipeg City Council
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Liberal Party
1974 municipal election
St. Boniface
Civic Reform Coalition
Independent Citizens' Election Committee
1977 provincial election
Progressive Conservative
Abe Kovnats
Radisson
1977 municipal election
1980
George Provost
1983
Louise Dacquay
1986
1989
Winnipeg into the '90s
Petro Canada
Ted Hughes
1992
Winnipeg in the '90s
Sunday shopping
Christmas
St. Vital
Louis Riel
Sam Katz

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