An Evening with Rick Leckner
Montreal’s own Rick Leckner, whose passion for fire and fire trucks led to his career path in journalism. He’ll talk about his life’s adventures including some of the major news stories he has covered and his many other lives including his role for the past 6 years as the first VP of Urgence Santé.
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RICK LECKNER
Rick Leckner has over five decades of experience in communications and crisis management. He established MaisonBrison Communications in 1983, providing strategic investor relations, crisis management and media relations services to large, publicly-traded Canadian companies. He is well-known for his 30 years of providing helicopter traffic reports to Montrealers. He is regularly solicited by the media for comments on transportation issues. Rick served as a city councillor in Dollard-des-Ormeaux from 1978-1994 where he established the City’s First Responder and Public Security services, was Vice-President of the Montreal Urban Community (MUC) Emergency Measures Bureau and has sat on a number of Quebec Government committees, including the Conseil des services essentiels the Comité d’examen des plaintes of the Sûreté du Québec and Transports Québec’s comité technique sur la mobilité des biens et des personnes. Rick has been on the Board of Urgences-santé since 2015 and is currently 1st Vice-President.
