Former Calgary city councillor Jeff Davison announces bid for mayor

Former Calgary metropolis councillor Jeff Davison has announced his volition to tally for politician successful adjacent year’s municipal election.

Davison made the announcement Thursday morning. With the predetermination inactive 1 twelvemonth away, Davison said determination is nary clip to spare successful restoring imaginativeness and enactment successful Calgary.

“Calgarians person said they person had it with this metropolis council,” Davison said. “They are huffy astatine their horrible decision-making and inability to enactment together. They don’t spot them.”

Davison said helium volition prioritize 3 cardinal issues: affordability, infrastructure and nationalist safety. If elected, Davison said helium volition frost spot taxes astatine 2025 levels for 4 years.

“This run volition enactment Calgarians backmost successful the driver’s spot — telling their metropolis assembly what they privation alternatively than being told by assembly however you should live,” Davison said. “Calgarians merit to beryllium listened to. I volition marque definite you are heard.”

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Davison sat connected assembly from 2017 to 2021. He ran for politician successful 2021, but mislaid retired to Mayor Jyoti Gondek.

Davison is presently the CEO of the Prostate Cancer Centre, an Alberta-based foundation that provides services to assistance men navigate the satellite of prostate cancer.

Davison is joined and has 3 children.

The adjacent municipal predetermination is scheduled for autumn 2025.