28 Facts About Diane Colley-Urquhart

Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart is a former municipal politician from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Diane Colley-Urquhart was a member of Calgary City Council and served as the representative for Ward 13.

Diane Colley-Urquhart grew up on a farm in Oyen, Alberta prior to moving to Calgary.

Diane 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.

Diane Colley-Urquhart has worked occasionally as a Care Coordinator at the Calgary Chronic Pain Centre and with Alberta Health Services.

Diane Colley-Urquhart pulled him out of the water and tended to several gashes on his face until help arrived.

Diane Colley-Urquhart was first elected as an Alderman on July 4,2000.

Diane Colley-Urquhart won a contested by-election in Ward 13 over ten other candidates.

Diane Colley-Urquhart was sworn into her post on July 10,2000, and has since been re-elected in 2001,2004,2007,2010,2013, and 2017.

Diane Colley-Urquhart sat on the Calgary Police Commission between 2002 and 2017.

Diane Colley-Urquhart created the STOP Marijuana Grow-ops Coalition in 2005 in recognition of the growing number of marijuana grow operations within the City.

Diane Colley-Urquhart campaigned against tax increases in the 2008 budget debates.

Diane Colley-Urquhart held a "Tax Payers Revolt" at Calgary City Hall.

Diane Colley-Urquhart made a motion to have tow trucks on stand-by on major commuting routes,.

Diane Colley-Urquhart was re-elected in the 2010 Municipal elections Alderman for Ward 13.

Diane Colley-Urquhart resigned from the Calgary Police Commission in February 2017, following allegations that she may have violated the Commission's Code of Conduct.

The accusations stemmed from statements Diane Colley-Urquhart made regarding the treatment of female officers serving with the Calgary Police Service, after she said she had dozens of private meetings with female officers who alleged they were bullied and harassed.

Diane Colley-Urquhart was replaced on the Commission by Councillor Richard Pootmans.

In 2020 Diane Colley-Urquhart was the sole city councillor to vote against renaming Calgary Chinatown's James Short Park, which was named after a leader of the anti-Chinese movement.

Diane Colley-Urquhart was absent for council meetings in November 2017 as she was on vacation in the Antarctic.

Diane Colley-Urquhart alerted council to her absence in a letter that was referenced by the media.

In 2010, Diane Colley-Urquhart was the running councillor of Ward 13 at the time of the Shawnee Slopes redevelopment proposal.

In 2019, Diane Colley-Urquhart raised a motion to Council to close the nine-hole golf course, located on the southwest quadrant of the city.

Diane Colley-Urquhart asked City staff to provide an interim update to council in October 2020 on an ongoing review of all six city-owned golf courses and their potential for sale or redevelopment.

Diane Colley-Urquhart was the candidate of the province of Alberta's ruling Progressive Conservative party in a by-election called in the riding of Calgary-Glenmore for September 14,2009, to become that riding's Member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly.

Diane Colley-Urquhart finished in third place, behind the victorious Wildrose Alliance candidate, Paul Hinman, and the runner-up, Liberal Party candidate Avalon Roberts.

Diane Colley-Urquhart was President of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's SW riding association.

On October 18,2021, Diane Colley-Urquhart was defeated in her bid for re-election, finishing a distant third out of three candidates.