Evelyne Reese

Evelyne Reese is a retired politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She served on the Winnipeg City Council for fifteen years, and ran for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba on two occasions as a candidate of the Liberal Party.

Reese was first elected to the Winnipeg City Council in the 1974 municipal election, defeating incumbent councillor Michael Dennehy in the St. Boniface ward of Winakwa. She was endorsed by a centre-left group called the Civic Reform Coalition, while Dennehy was part of the governing centre-right Independent Citizens' Election Committee. Reese later ran in the 1977 provincial election, and finished third against Progressive Conservative Abe Kovnats in Radisson. She was not a candidate in the 1977 municipal election, but returned to council in 1980 with a victory over incumbent councillor George Provost in the redistributed Langevin ward. She was re-elected in 1983.

Reese narrowly lost to right-wing candidate Louise Dacquay in 1986, but was returned over Dacquay in 1989 as a candidate of the newly formed centre-left Winnipeg into the '90s coalition. In 1991, Reese led an effort to have Petro Canada remove gasoline-contaminated soil from a site in her ward. She also criticized a report by retired judge Ted Hughes into the mismanaged prosecution of a Winnipeg attorney for what turned out to be an unfounded accusation of sexual assault. Reese argued that Hughes singled out the police for criticism, and did not adequately address problems in the provincial justice department.

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