Every morning during her hour-long commute to city hall from Montreal’s east end, Soraya Martinez Ferrada drives by the sprawling Notre-Dame St. encampment that’s come to symbolize a worsening crisis ...

MONTREAL - Montreal can develop the ambition to become one of the world’s great metropolises, Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said Thursday as she was formally sworn in during a ceremony at city hall.

Soraya Martinez Ferrada, leader of Ensemble Montréal, will become Montreal’s next mayor, CBC News has projected. Martinez Ferrada, who is of Chilean descent, makes history as the first racialized ...

After eight years under Valérie Plante and her party Projet Montréal, Montrealers voted in favour of change. Soraya Martinez Ferrada, who stepped down from her post as a federal cabinet minister to ...

People arrive at a polling station in Montreal, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, as advanced voting began then ahead of the upcoming municipal election on Nov. 2. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes MONTREAL — ...

It’s official. For the first time in eight years, Montreal will have a new mayor: Soraya Martinez Ferrada. The leader of Ensemble Montréal has made history by becoming the first person of Latin ...

Montreal's mayor-elect Soraya Martinez Ferrada says Montrealers didn't feel heard, and she promised an administration that listens. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada - image credit) Soraya Martinez Ferrada, ...

Montreal’s mayor-elect Soraya Martinez Ferrada thanked voters for electing a racialized woman who came to Canada as a refugee. Martinez Ferrada says she hopes she can convince the Quebec government to ...

In a vote for change, Montrealers have chosen Soraya Martinez Ferrada, a former federal Liberal minister, as the city’s new mayor. With half of polling stations reporting results by 10 p.m. Sunday, ...

MONTREAL - Montrealers have chosen Soraya Martinez Ferrada, a Chilean refugee who became a federal minister, as their new mayor in a vote for change that has unseated the city’s left-leaning ...