Saskatoon’s first female mayor sworn in [Video]

After being sworn in Wednesday night alongside a mix of new and returning city councillors, Cynthia Block becomes the first female mayor of Saskatoon.

“Basically, all this week it hasn’t really felt real,” said Block. “I think it was honestly the point where I had to welcome the first councillor, and I had to say ‘as mayor of the city of Saskatoon’, and it was my words, that it felt a little jarring. And as I had to say that a few more times, I guess I’m getting used to it.”

Block wasn’t the only first. Senos Timon became the first black city councillor when he was sworn in to represent ward 2.

“I’m still processing it, it’s something that I didn’t feel is real,” said Senos Timon, ward 2 councillor. “When I first fled the war in South Sudan, I never thought that I’m going to be putting my …