After more than a decade serving Halifax as mayor, Mike Savage won’t be running in the next election. Skye Bryden-Blom reports. – Feb 13, 2024 Halifax -area councillor Pam Lovelace has announced that she’s running for mayor this fall, making her the first high-profile candidate to throw her hat in the ring.
Lovelace, who represents Hammonds Plains – St. Margaret’s, made the announcement during an event Friday morning at Mount Saint Vincent University’s McCain Centre. If elected, she would become the first female mayor the region has seen since the mid-90s. Moira Ducharme, who served from 1991 to 1994, was the first female mayor of pre-amalgamation Halifax, and no women have held the seat since.Lovelace is the third person to become an unofficial mayoral candidate before official nominations open in September. Political newcomers Nolan Greenough and Clay Bowser also registered as unofficial candidates earlier in the spring.
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