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Lisa Alanna Mintz
Lisa Alanna Mintz is Canadian environmentalist, political activist, librarian, and yoga teacher living in Montreal, Quebec.

Mintz notably founded the environmentalist group Sauvons la Falaise in 2015, dedicated to protecting a 20-hectare (49 acre) corridor of forgotten green space that is the St. Jacques Escarpment Eco-Territory in Montreal.

Also in 2015, she helped found another group, Sauvons l'Anse à l'Orme that formed to save 185 hectares of green space in the Pierrefonds borough of Montreal. A residential development of up to 6,000 homes is proposed for this site.

In 2016, Mintz co-founded another environmental/transport group, Trainsparence, that is opposed to the proposed Réseau Électrique Métropolitain (REM) train proposed for Montreal. She is quite critical of the urban sprawl and destruction of green spaces that the REM will provoke. Proponents of the project claim that the REM will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it has never been subjected to a climate test to determine if this is true.

In February, 2017, three mainstream environmental groups came out publicly supporting the REM while Mintz and supporters claimed the project amounted to “green washing.” Mintz sparred publicly with Karel Mayrand of the Suzuki Foundation on this controversy.

Mintz also co-founded the group “Creatures of Creation” that tries to link environmental and religious groups.

Mintz is also very involved with the Oiseaux du Technoparc group that is attempting to save wetlands in the St-Laurent borough. This area is rich in biodiversity, boasting one of the highest bird species counts of anywhere in Quebec. Ironically, these wetlands are threatened by the the construction of the so-called "Hubert Reeeves Eco-Campus." Mintz has received help from Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May and Quebec Green Party leader Alex Tyrrell on this controversy.

Through her involvement with Sauvons la Falaise, Mintz became a main spokesperson for reinstating the $40 million Dalle-Parc (a pedestrian and bicycle bridge) in the $3.8 billion Turcot Highway reconstruction project. This bridge, and other "green measures" were promised by former Quebec Transport minister Sam Hamad in 2010, but then mysteriously disappeared from Transport Ministry plans.

A librarian by training, in 2014 Mintz made her debut in the environmental movement, enquiring about how to help local ecologists trying to prevent houses from being built on a golf course. Within two years, she became co-president of that group, les Amis du parc Meadowbrook  and also sitting on board of Green Coalition.

In early 2017 Mintz announced her candidacy for a party nomination in the November 5 2017 municipal elections in Montreal. On August 3, she lost the Projet Montréal nomination to Christian Arsenault by 134 votes to 136 in the Loyola district. She then publicly asked her supporters to back Arsenault.

Born in Boston USA,  in 1967, Mintz grew up in Toronto, graduating from York University with a BA (honours) in history. She then spent much of early adult life living in Europe. In 1998, Mintz returned to Canada, making Montreal home. Apart from work with libraries and charitable groups, Mintz teaches Kundalini Yoga.

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