Diane Colley-Urquhart
| Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart | |
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| City of Calgary Councillor | |
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Assumed office July 10, 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Patti Grier |
| Constituency | Ward 13 |
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| Spouse(s) | David Urquhart (Deceased) |
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Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart is municipal politician from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is a member of Calgary City Council and serves as the representative for Ward 13.
Diane Colley-Urquhart grew up on a farm in Oyen, Alberta prior to moving to Calgary.
After receiving her BSc in Health and Human Services, Diane has had a nearly 40 year registered nursing career. Colley-Urquhart has held senior management and teaching positions in Emergency, Intensive Trauma and Cardiac Care with Foothills Medical Centre, the University of Alberta Hospital, Beverly Care Centre, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Canadian Cancer Society, Kids Help Phone and Westhampton Management Ltd. She has worked occasionally as a Nurse Specialist at the Calgary Chronic Pain Centre and with Alberta Health Services.
In April 2013, while running on a beach in San Diego, CA, Cooley-Urquhart rescued an injured surfer. The man had been hit by his own board and was stunned. Cooley-Urquhart pulled him out of the water and tended to several gashes on his face until help arrived.
Colley-Urquhart was first elected as an Alderman on July 4, 2000. She won a contested by-election in Ward 13 over ten other candidates. She was sworn into her post on July 10, 2000, and has since been re-elected in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013. In 2010, Calgary City Council voted to change the title Alderman to the more gender-neutral term Councillor, resulting in a change of title for Colley-Urquhart after the following election in 2013.
Colley-Urquhart sat on the Calgary Police Commission between 2002 and 2017. Colley-Urquhart created the STOP Marijuana Grow-ops Coalition in 2005 in recognition of the growing number of marijuana grow operations within the City.
A self-styled fiscal conservative and promoter of a "common sense" style of leadership, Colley-Urquhart campaigned against tax increases in the 2008 budget debates. She held a "Tax Payers Revolt" at Calgary City Hall with close to 1000 people signing her petition. Colley-Urquhart opposed the Santiago Calatrava designed pedestrian bridges. She now sits on the City Council Audit Committee, pushing for greater scrutiny of the tendering process.
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