Mayor Valérie Plante’s first 100 days: In her own words

Mayor Valérie Plante arrives carrying soup in a paper cup. It’s a noon-hour interview and she’s nursing a bad cold that literally left her speechless at city council three days earlier.
“I love soup and I’m sick,” she says, laughing, by way of explanation.
Though clearly still under the weather, Plante’s voice is back and she’s not about to skip the round of 100-days-in-office chats with reporters. The reviews of her baptism by fire haven’t