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Masstown farmer launches pumpkins over a kilometre for charity | SaltWireSYDNEY, N.S. — The one-year countdown starts ticking toward the next municipal election and for the mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, thoughts on re-running for the top job have crossed her mind.
Before the interview began, she advised that she would have an answer to whether she’d reoffer — but toward the end of the discussion. Within council, McDougall-Merrill cited seeing grants to artists getting the green light, investments in transit and its electrification plans, and pushing ahead with a more modern strategic vision for the municipality.
“But it’s tough, though, because with all that comes change,” she said. “And change is not something that is easily accepted by folks.” “We have been forced to be creative and innovative with our very limited dollars,” she said. “But it’s the politics of the world that we work in that is so frustrating. Politics is slow.
CBRM Mayor Amanda McDougall-Merrill:"When I was councillor for District 8, I had it in my head that I wasn’t even going to be reoffering at that point as councillor — and then ended up running for mayor. And that was a big jump for me.
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