Mayor Diane Therrien Calls Special City Council Meeting Thursday; City to Discuss Housing and Homelessness

Mayor Diane Therrien has called a special meeting of City council to provide housing and homelessness updates for this Thursday.

Mayor Therrien announced she was not seeking re-election in November last year. Photo by David Tuan Bui.

At the special council meeting, council will confirm the proceedings of the special general committee meeting and hear from delegations.

The special general committee meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. and a special council meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Under council’s procedure by-law (21-104), council can hold a special meeting if it provides 48 hours notice of such meeting.

The meetings will be held electronically and can be viewed on the City’s website.

Members of the community wishing to speak at the council meeting must register before 11 a.m. on Thursday by using the registration form on the City of Peterborough website or by calling 705-742-7777 extension 1820.

Comments on the meeting agenda items can also be made on connectptbo.ca which is the City’s online community engagement hub, until 11 a.m. on Thursday. Comments provided as part of the “Comment on Current Agenda Items” section will be circulated to council members in advance of the meeting.

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Mayor Therrien Shuts Down Rumour Mill In Best Way About Her Body With Funny, Powerful Tweet

People in public positions often have to deal with a lot of gossip and conjecture about them—oftentimes in regards to their body. Sometimes the only way to deal with that is to confront it head on. Take this case of Peterborough Mayor Diane Therrien as an example.

Mayor Therrien

On Monday (September 23rd), Mayor Therrien posted a tweet about her having to miss City Council due to illness.

Due to illness, I have to send regrets for tonight’s council meeting. I am sorry. I am very supportive of our motions to fund transitional housing and deal with the climate crisis.

— Diane Therrien (@DianeNTherrien) September 23, 2019

She followed it up with this mic drop of a tweet hours later in regards to her pregnancy status (which, of course, is no one’s business but people make it such).

And..... Sorry rumour mill i am NOT pregnant I am just too busy to go to the gym k thanks.

— Diane Therrien (@DianeNTherrien) September 24, 2019

The responses were overwhelmingly positive in regards to her honesty in confronting the gossip head on…

My friend @Mayor_Jeff has had some damn good social media statements but this is the best I’ve seen. I believe the gauntlet has been thrown. #mymayor #ohnoshedidnt

— Rusty Haines (@RustyHaines) September 24, 2019

This is my favourite tweet from you. 🤣🤣🤣

— Jamie Steel (@jamiecsteel) September 24, 2019

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— Tanya Fusco (@TanyaFusco) September 24, 2019

And here I am, growing this "pregnancy" belly for years and years, and not a single person has commented on my glow 🤰🙄

— Andrew Wright (@a6wright) September 24, 2019

“I’ve heard it through the grapevine about six times now,” Mayor Therrien tells PTBOCanada in regards to her rumour mill tweet. “So no not pregnant, just fat LOL.”

Oh, and she often bikes to work, too, for those that don’t see her car at City Hall and think she’s not working hard. But we’ll leave that up to her to say in another tweet ;)

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