Glenn de baeremaeker biography definition
A passionate city builder, environmentalist, community and transit advocate and former City Councillor, Deputy Mayor and Deputy Speaker in the City of Toronto....
Wednesday's council meeting had a touch of craziness.Glenn De Baeremaeker
Glenn De Baeremaeker (dee BAIR-ə-MAY-kər) is a former city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, who represented Ward 38, one of the two former Scarborough Centre wards from 2003-2018.
The son of working-class parents, he has a master's degree in international development and spent six months in Ethiopia at the height of the 1980s famine.
He originally rose to prominence for his work with the Save the Rouge group fighting to keep the Rouge Valley area of Scarborough free from development.
A strong environmentalist, De Baeremaeker is a vegan.
Glenn De Baeremaeker.
Working as an assistant to city councillor Doug Mahood, De Baeremaeker ran for a seat on Scarborough city council in 1994 but lost to David Soknacki.
Continuing his environmental work, De Baeremaeker became one of the leaders in the effort to save the Oak Ridges Moraine from development.
When Brad Duguid left city council in 2003 to run for the provincial Liberals, De Baeremaeker decided to run for the empty s