Former NDP MP Olivia Chow was elected mayor of Toronto on Monday, beating out 101 other candidates in the race. Chow has become the first person of colour to be named the city’s mayor, and the first woman to be mayor since amalgamation. Chow captured over 37 per cent of the vote on Monday’s election, beating … [Read more…]
Former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders is running on a campaign that focusses squarely on public safety. And why not? He is, after all, the only candidate who ran the Toronto Police Service. Saunders retired in 2020, took his first stab at politics running for the Progressive Conservatives in the 2022 provincial election. He lost … [Read more…]
You might think that Premier Doug Ford’s vindictive decisions are responsible for most of Toronto’s problems, and you wouldn’t be far wrong, but that’s not the whole story. A former mayor also must take part of the blame. Former mayor John Tory claimed that the property tax should never be raised enough to be equal … [Read more…]
The key person Olivia Chow should talk to for the provision of affordable housing is Jagmeet Singh. He might not be the prime minister, but he has a formidable card to play, the same card played by the NDP leader David Lewis in 1972. Fifty-one years ago, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was caught after the election … [Read more…]