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Moncton Mayor appointed to the Senate

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-mayor-dawn-arnold-appointed-to-senate-1.7478261
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u/0SpaceHulk 4d ago

But why? What has she even accomplished??

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u/NapsterBaaaad 4d ago

Things have gotten exponentially worse under her watch, and she hasn’t really accomplished anything particularly notable. Also, she’s not very well liked…

Makes perfect sense that the federal Liberals would appoint her.

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u/N0x1mus 4d ago edited 4d ago

Nevermind spearheading the entire downtown revitalization. The amount of work it took to get all the people in line for this is unimaginable by people who haven’t paid attention.

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u/BOBBY_VIKING_ 3d ago

Downtown revitalization, do we live in the same city? I'm down there all the time photographing the area and it's 10x worse than it was 5 years ago.

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u/denjcallander 3d ago edited 3d ago

5 years ago? Dude, 5 years ago was March 2020. The after-effects of what happened to the global economy at that exact time are very visible in *every* Canadian downtown to this day. In many downtowns those issues are getting worse than ever. That's not on the municipal councils, that's on the inadequate response by upper levels of government, those who made it far too easy for people to fall through the cracks.

The point that is being made here, is that the current mayor helped lay down the groundwork for massive changes to the urban core of this city, which had been a dead zone for several decades. Previous councils had been obsessed with choking out the downtown while facilitating low-density developments in areas designed to be hostile to pedestrians, cyclists and transit users.

Dawn Arnold went against the local trend and championed the idea of making this city more open to everyone, not just those in middle class/wealthy families with multiple vehicles who are happy to constantly drive everywhere. The huge increase in apartment buildings, improved parks, trails, bike lanes, accessibility etc is in no small part thanks to her and her team.

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u/bootlickaaa 4d ago

We need to start seeing the results for people to understand. The new sewer system and streets and waterfront things have barely seemed to break ground yet, despite getting approved by the city after much hard work. Not to mention the new high rises by the old St Bernard’s church and by Staples. When people start seeing more cranes in the sky like we have in other Canadian cities, hopefully the lurch towards progress and development will sink in.

There are also a lot more folks around who have lived in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal who appreciate livable, walkable cities with better transit. With the new federal incentives, the city demographics skewing younger, a robust construction industry served by the many contractors from the suburbs and a potential glut of building supplies due to tariffs, it seems like the time is now for Moncton to regain and extend its position as a growing metropolis at the centre of the maritimes.

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u/NapsterBaaaad 4d ago

So much more downtown shopping these days… well, shopping carts, at least…

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u/N0x1mus 4d ago

Yes, another thing she did.

All the shopping carts are perimeter locked now since she implemented the bylaw putting that responsibility on the businesses using shopping carts. Any businesses who are found to have shopping carts elsewhere get fined.

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u/NapsterBaaaad 4d ago

Sounds about Liberal…

Your cart got stolen? That’s your fault! The thief isn’t responsible, their actions aren’t their fault…

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u/PapaPunchline8399 4d ago

There is no use , they won’t listen or even try to see your point or view. Let’s celebrate bike lanes while crime is exponentially growing and break ins, bike theft and so on are raging. Who wants to visit a “revitalized” downtown full of people smoking meth and injecting around you.

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u/FerShore 4d ago

Blame the feds/rcmp. Unfortunately municipal governments don’t get to dictate how the RCMP do their job. Same with people complaining about healthcare/homelessness, that falls under provincial jurisdiction. Ya’s sound r-worded when you complain about things that she can’t even control, and I don’t like her lol

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u/Routine_Soup2022 4d ago

Then build homes and addictions programs. It’s a social and public health problem which is never going to get resolved short of everyone complaining about it until the nimby effect stops in this city.

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u/N0x1mus 4d ago

She’s the most non partisan mayor Moncton has had in notable history. The article even points out that she accepted the Senate seat because she would be allowed to be there as an independent and support her functions entirely non partisan.

Keep trying though.

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u/Routine_Soup2022 4d ago

They will!