There’s a heated battle for mayor in peaceful Pointe-Claire. To hear Tim Thomas tell it, it’s a fight for the soul of the quiet Montreal suburb of 36,000 residents.

“I’m trying to save a beautiful city from uncontrolled development,” the incumbent said in an interview at his home in the heart of Pointe-Claire Village on Thursday morning. Thomas won his position by just 61 votes in 2021, prompting a demand for a recount from his rival, outgoing mayor John Belvedere.

Thomas’s victory held, but Belvedere didn’t give up. He has kept his nose in Pointe-Claire politics over the past four years and is running again in the hopes of taking back his old job.

“I never really left,” Belvedere said on Thursday afternoon, sitting in his home on Lakeshore Rd., around the corner from Thomas. “It was su

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