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Tory honed that reputation over the course of his business and broadcasting careers, as well as two relatively drama-free terms he served at City Hall. The third mandate he easily secured in October’s municipal election seemed to promise more of the same, but those hopes came crashing down on Friday evening.
That night, Tory stunned the city he’d led for more than eight years when he admitted to having an “inappropriate relationship” with a former member of his staff and abruptly announced plans to step down.
Tory originally promised to only run for two terms and could have left public life in the fall respected by people across the political spectrum, said Zachary Taylor, an associate professor at Western University’s political science department. Instead, he decided to run for a third term — a decision Taylor said has now placed his legacy in a very different light.
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“He has admitted to doing something that is very much contrary to his image as a squeaky clean, ethically clean mayor who never raises his voice, never does things that are unreasonable,” said Taylor.
“He had this image of being the only grown up in the room while council squabbled around him. Now we’ve seen that image kind of blow up.”
Tory’s whole raison d’etre was stable, calm leadership with no drama following the scandal-plagued mayoralty of his predecessor Rob Ford, said Peter Graefe, an associate professor of political science at McMaster University. In contrast, Tory was “internationally presentable” and gave the sense he was actually managing files at city hall, he said.
But Graefe said the surprising nature of Tory’s departure will likely cast a shadow over his time in office.
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“It’s really hard to say, ‘here is the achievements of John Tory over almost a decade in power,”‘ said Graefe. “Instead it’s much more someone who’s leaving under a cloud and leaving a lot of unfinished business for the next mayor and Toronto city council to pick up.”
When Tory launched his first mayoral bid in 2014, he ran on a platform of change, a transit vision for the city and low taxes. Graefe said Tory has kept the line on the city budget and taxes, but at the expense of affordability, high housing costs and aging infrastructure.
“There’s a sense of unhappiness that Toronto is not the place to live in that it used to be, that it’s a dirtier city, that it’s a more dangerous city,” he said.
Tory was also “pretty clueless” in his responses to issues of race related to carding and policing of racialized Torontonians, Graefe said.
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Criticisms mounted in recent weeks over Tory’s announcement of a proposed $48.3-million increase to the city’s police budget. The boost would bring funding to just over $1.1 billion for 2023, a figure Tory’s critics said was grossly inflated compared to other line items and underfunded social services.
“Given Toronto’s kind of super diversity, we might have expected a leader who could have avoided some unnecessary conflicts on that by showing a greater IQ in terms of the nature of those relationships in Toronto,” Graefe said. “That is another more difficult part of his legacy.”
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But regardless of the many negative things people have had to say about Tory, Graefe noted he was elected with little opposition in the past two municipal campaigns.
“He was seen as a good steward of public finances … In certain parts of the city the idea of being tough on the homeless and tough on crime was reassuring.”
“You could see why he was maybe not a popular mayor, but he was a mayor people were willing to continue to vote for, at least in the absence of a serious contender.”
But those policies were the opposite of reassuring for longtime street nurse Cathy Crowe, who said she’s witnessed homelessness double since before the COVID-19 pandemic as well as continued forceful encampment evictions.
“I don’t think in most circles (Tory’s) known exactly as a strong, compassionate heart, if you will,” she said.
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Gil Penalosa, who lost the mayoral race in October’s municipal election after only securing 18% of the vote compared to Tory’s more than 60 per cent, announced Saturday he will run again once a byelection is called to replace him.
Penalosa said Tory will be remembered as a hard worker who was committed to reshaping the city’s image, but one that failed on issues of equity, affordability and climate change.
“I don’t evaluate him based on the goals that I have because they’re very different, but I think he tried to do the best he could according to the things that he wanted to do,” said Penalosa.
The progressive urbanist invited Toronto residents not to dwell on Tory’s legacy, or even the past few days, and instead be optimistic and focus on a radically different future.
“He resigned, he did something negative. He’s gone now,” said Penalosa. “Let’s see this as an opportunity and not as a barrier.”
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Mayor John Tory said he made it known he was in favour of the provincial government’s decision to grant Toronto’s next leader “strong mayor powers,” but he was forced to defend his lobbying efforts to strengthen them further, in a move that has many decrying an erosion of municipal democracy.
On Wednesday, Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs revealed Tory had requested further strength to the strong mayor powers. Previously, the mayor would have been able to veto council decisions, but now Tory will be able to pass motions with only a third of council support, as long as the issue is deemed of “provincial interest.”
Tory said his discussions with the province on the subject were held before Toronto’s municipal election and the expanded powers are necessary because he would have been unable to proactively bring forward provincial priorities without it.
“These enhanced authorities only apply to areas designated as being areas of provincial priority,” he said, “including housing and also maybe transportation or transit.”
Tory said there was no clarity on what the expanded rules would be until the legislation was tabled this week and said he has built trust with residents over his previous eight years and should continue to be trusted.
But critics were quick to note that he made no mention of the expanded provisions while campaigning and the new powers negatively impact municipal democracy.
Myer Siemiatycki, professor emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University, said the powers are completely unprecedented and not only don’t exist within North America, but any democratic body in the world.
“It’s an undermining of the whole purpose and role of municipal government,” he said. “This is turning the mayor into the chief provincial enforcement officer at city hall.”
“It’s really regrettable that Mayor Tory be complicit in this and this will hang over him as one of his legacies for the city of Toronto,” said Siemiatycki, adding that if the purpose is to build more housing, the means don’t justify the ends.
“That a mayor would want to have the ability to override the majority is such a flagrant overturning of the most basic of democratic principles. I just think it’s close to unbelievable that Mayor Tory would seek such powers or would exercise these on any issue.”
The move is also being criticized by veteran city councillor and noted Tory critic Josh Matlow, who said Tory has had been virtually unimpeded on every council motion he has put forward. When asked earlier by Global News to point to areas he was obstructed over his previous terms, the mayor said it was less of an issue of being blocked in a vote, but knowing he didn’t have the votes to push an issue forward.
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Matlow counters that a mayor doesn’t need these powers, because the province already has the authority to do what it wants. “We’re in a housing crisis and Doug Ford has the power to re-zone, change the planning act, do whatever he wants to build more housing, you don’t need a strong mayor power to do so,” he said.
“That is gaslighting, it’s a red herring, and shamelessly it’s the end of local democracy as we know it here in Toronto,” Matlow said.
The change also caught new city councillor Jamaal Myers off-guard, who described the affair as disappointing.
“This is the first instance I can recall of the mayor actually going to the province of Ontario to undermine the democratic legitimacy of Toronto’s government,” said Myers. As a Torontonian, he said he expects Tory to stand up for the city’s principles, not to be opposed to them.
“This place only operates on trust and good relationships and that’s set at the top.”
Myers said he’s not holding out much hope the province will backtrack on the new powers, but thinks that responsibility should be up to Tory. “What I’m more interested to see is if the mayor will backtrack on this, I think that’s really important,” he said.
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Despite a new Forum Resarch poll showing he would easily win the election race to replace him as mayor, John Tory has signalled he will not be running.
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“Tory would wipe the floor against the other candidates in this election,” said Forum Research President Lorne Bozinoff.
That is, if Tory’s name was on the ballot. The former mayor says it will not be.
Victorious in three consecutive elections, Tory stepped down on Feb. 10 after admitting to having a relationship with as female staffer in his office.
Anybody wanting to replace him has until Friday to get their name on the ballot.
With 73 people already running for Toronto’s top municipal job, Friday is the final day to register for the June 26 byelection.
While two Forum Research Polls show he could win back the position he vacated, Tory has made it clear he will not add his name to the lengthy list of candidates.
Could there be 100 candidates this time? A lot of people were wondering if one of those names to come in on or around the last day would be Tory’s.
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Fearing what a more left-leaning Olivia Chow would look like over the next 3 1/2 years in office — and, so far, polls suggest few of her rivals pose much of a threat — there are people looking for ways to defeat her.
Someone else will have to deal with that because Tory said to count him out.
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“I won’t be a candidate for mayor in the upcoming byelection,” he told me in an email. “As I have said many times, I will find other ways I can continue to contribute to the city I love and I will always be available to help our city’s mayor and council.”
This will come as a great relief to the front-runners. The Forum research poll shows Tory at “40-plus” in support, according to Bozinoff, while none of the leading candidates received that much.
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Without Tory in the poll, the Forum numbers show Chow in the lead at 33%, with Councillor Josh Matlow and former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders tied for second at 14%. A Mainstreet Research poll, reported by CTV last Friday, showed Chow, a former NDP MP and city councillor, at 22% and former councillor Ana Bailao and Matlow tied for second with 11% each.
Also running are Councillors Brad Bradford and Anthony Perruzza, Liberal MPP Mitzie Hunter and city advocate and journalist Anthony Furey. There are many other names in this race, including Chloe Brown, Chris Sky, former councillor Giorgio Mammoliti and businessman and entertainer Frank D’Angelo.
Other than Chow, none of the candidates have stepped up to capture the imagination of the electorate, which had some behind the scenes trying to coax Tory back into the race with a view that he could win easily. Tory has seen the polls and been getting the phone calls, but had not commented publicly — until now.
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He said he felt it would be best if he ended any speculation and made it clear he won’t be involved.
“Polls which suggested I might do well … (have) encouraged many people to reach out from across the city and I am very grateful for their expressions of kindness and support,” Tory said.
“I said on the day I stepped aside that serving as mayor for more than eight years was one of the great privileges of my entire life … I tried my best to do my best, including during the pandemic, which was a very challenging time.”
Tory added: “I also said that day that I wanted to place a greater priority on my family and helping deal with a difficult situation I was responsible for. I have been doing just that and I will continue to do so.”
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He didn’t rule out attempting to come back into elected life at another time. Perhaps he could run provincially in Scarborough—Guildwood if Hunter does indeed resign it to concentrate fully on the mayoral race, as she has indicated she will.
Or perhaps Tory is retired from public life altogether. Time will tell.
But one thing he said is for sure: despite leading in polls, Tory has no plans to make a comeback in the current mayoral contest.
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World AIDS Day
December 1, 2023
WHEREAS today is an opportunity to raise awareness of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which when left untreated can advance to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). World AIDS Day also marks the beginning of Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week in Canada.
The year’s theme, “Let Communities Lead” focuses on the impact of individuals living with, and affected by HIV who should be recognized as leaders on the frontlines of the response. This year’s World AIDS Day is a call to action to fully enable and support these community leaders and exemplify a defining value of the global HIV/AIDS movement: “Nothing about us without us”. Through their leadership and unwavering dedication, trust is developed, resources reach those who benefit, and pathways are created for better health, full participation in the community, and the dignity of each person.
Responding to HIV comes with challenges, such as funding limitations, policy and regulatory obstacles, as well as the persisting HIV stigma. However, we can overcome these challenges by prioritizing engagement with the communities most affected, empowering people living with HIV, focusing on the social determinants of health, and creating a regulatory environment that allows access to diagnostics, treatment, and care. It is important to share that HIV has changed, and now a person diagnosed with HIV can lead a long and healthy life. Additionally, scientific evidence shows that individuals living with HIV and on treatment cannot transmit the virus. This message is shared globally: “undetectable equals untransmittable.”
Here in Toronto, efforts are being made to improve our city’s response to HIV/AIDS. On November 10, 2023, Toronto City Council adopted a motion to officially endorse the City of Toronto’s participation in the Fast-Track Cities Network, a partnership that unites cities from around the world to collectively address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Toronto’s diverse and innovative population, coupled with its proactive involvement in combating HIV, positions the City uniquely to advance the HIV response.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim December 1, 2023 as “World AIDS Day” in the City of Toronto.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 3, 2023
WHEREAS first observed by the United Nations in on this day in 1992,
International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) envisions a future where the needs of people with disabilities are considered and integrated in every aspect of civil society. It is a day to raise awareness of people who live with visible and invisible disabilities, celebrate the achievements of the disability community, promote the rights of people with disabilities and to raise awareness about the barriers that prevent them from fully participating in their communities.
The theme for the 2023 IDPD is “United in action to rescue and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals for, with and by persons with disabilities”. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that focuses on fundamental shifts in commitment, solidarity, financing, and action to ensure the inclusion of voices, needs and priorities of persons with disabilities in all their diversity. This approach builds on the principle of leaving no one behind in achieving sustainable development for all.
Transformative solutions that involve public-private sector cooperation to develop strategies for, with and by people with disabilities, along with the active participation of diverse people with disabilities in the decision-making process are some ways in which we can work towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
The City of Toronto strives to become a leader in accessibility and disability inclusion through its policies, procedures, and daily operations. The City of Toronto is committed to accessibility and the goals of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), and is working to identify, prevent and remove barriers to equitable access in Toronto so we can collectively move beyond accessibility legislation towards inclusion and celebration for persons with disabilities.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim December 3, 2023 as “International Day of Persons with Disabilities” in the City of Toronto.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
December 6, 2023
WHEREAS in 1991, the Parliament of Canada designated every December 6th as the “National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women” to commemorate the victims of the massacre at École Polytechnique Montreal, where 14 women were murdered and 10 other women were injured because of their gender.
Today, we reaffirm our commitment to fighting the hatred and misogyny that fuelled this horrible event, while we remember and mourn the 14 women whose lives were lost, and those that were injured by this act of violence. We keep in our thoughts all who have experienced and continue to be impacted by acts of gender related violence and acknowledge that more work is required to address this serious issue that still exists today.
Gender-based violence is experienced more frequently by equity-deserving communities including women, girls and gender diverse people. Today we acknowledge that we all play a role in educating ourselves, our families, and our communities about this issue and its impacts while firmly speaking out against it.
Toronto City Council has declared gender-based violence and intimate-partner violence to be an epidemic in Toronto. Toronto City Council also urges the provincial and federal governments to rightfully declare intimate partner and gender-based violence an epidemic.
The City of Toronto is committed to promoting fundamental human rights and ensuring that all women, girls, and gender diverse people can live in a city that recognizes and supports their needs and amplifies their rights. The City of Toronto’s Gender Equity Unit is working to improve outcomes for women, girls, and gender diverse people by developing a Gender Equity Strategy to address issues of gender inequity.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim December 6, 2023 as “National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women” in the City of Toronto.
Human Rights Day
December 10, 2023
WHEREAS today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly. This landmark document proclaims that every human being is entitled to certain rights that are universally protected. It is also a day to inspire people to find a common shared humanity with others, and act when their basic rights are not being met.
The United Nations is marking this anniversary with the year-long campaign themed “Human Rights 75: Dignity, Freedom, and Justice For All”. It focuses on having a better understanding of the universal nature of the UDHR and the activism that is associated with working to ensure the rights of all people are recognized, especially those facing barriers. Young people are highlighted as being at the forefront of human rights activism, yet they experience challenges in exercising their rights.
This year’s campaign is also a call to action for member states to expand the current system of human rights protection to include equity-deserving groups including those with intersecting identities. It is an opportunity to use the UDHR as a global blueprint and life guide to ensure the rights of all people are respected and upheld and that no one is left behind.
The City of Toronto is committed to embracing the spirit of the Declaration as it works towards upholding the fundamental human rights of its residents and fostering a civil society committed to reconciliation and justice, the elimination of racism, and all forms of hate and discrimination. The City of Toronto is also working to eliminate systemic barriers that have resulted in inequality and discrimination for equity-deserving groups, including those with intersecting identities.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim December 10, 2023 as “Human Rights Day” in the City of Toronto.
Transit Worker Assault Awareness Day
December 17, 2023
WHEREAS today we recognize transit workers and their importance as frontline workers who keep our city moving, transporting thousands of people to every corner of the city and beyond. These essential workers are the backbone of our city, and should be respected for the critical services they provide to our residents.
Transit workers, including operators and administrative staff are facing increasing amounts of verbal and physical abuse. To protect these key individuals, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) consulted with frontline workers to better understand the problems and concerns faced on a daily basis. In response, the TTC partnered with various City of Toronto Divisions to create a coordinated response to improve safety and restore confidence in the TTC as a safe place for riders and transit workers.
All transit workers have the right to be employed in a safe, healthy, and supportive work environment. We acknowledge there is still work to be done to ensure the safety and protection of frontline transit workers. To date, several safety measures have since been reinforced at the TTC to help protect frontline workers from physical and verbal abuse, harassment, and threats. We will continue to work together with the TTC and transit workers to ensure that the TTC system is a safe workplace for the workers who keep our city moving.
The City of Toronto condemns all acts of violence, harassment, or abuse against transit workers. The safety, protection and health of employees is a principal responsibility of the City of Toronto. Through its partnership with the TTC, the City of Toronto is further committed to improving the mental and physical health and safety of transit workers and their respective work environments.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim December 17, 2023 as “Transit Worker Assault Awareness Day” in the City of Toronto.
The Salvation Army Week
December 18 – 24, 2023
WHEREAS the Salvation Army offers multiple community-based services in 400 communities across Canada, which provide help and support to many including residents in our city. Since its establishment in 1882, the Salvation Army has grown to become one of the largest non-governmental providers of social services across the country.
The Salvation Army Week takes place during the last week of the organization’s Christmas Kettle Campaign. The Christmas Kettle stations located across our city, are accepting donations to help support the Salvation Army’s essential programs.
Residents are encouraged to embrace the spirit of hope and joy during the festive season, while finding ways to help everyone in our city feel appreciated and supported during the holidays.
The City of Toronto acknowledges the valued efforts of all those who volunteer their time over the holiday season in support of providing for residents in need. The City of Toronto also recognizes the important work of charities and non-profits, and their significant contributions to the well-being of our communities.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim December 18 – 24, 2023 as “The Salvation Army Week” in the City of Toronto.
Kwanzaa Week
December 26, 2023 – January 1, 2024
WHEREAS first recognized in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa is a celebration of Afrocentric values, beliefs, ancestry, heritage, and culture, that has officially been celebrated in Canada since 1993. Kwanzaa comes from the Swahili phrase “matanda ya kwanza” signifying “first fruits” of the harvest.
The seven-day long celebration of Kwanzaa is marked by candles placed in a holder called a kinara. Each day a candle representing one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa is lit: Umoja (unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination), Ujima (collective work and responsibility), Ujamaa (cooperative economics), Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity) and Imani (faith) that are collectively called Nguzo Saba. There is also symbolism in the colours of the seven candles in the kinara. Three red candles represent the global struggles of African peoples and the African diaspora, a black candle in the middle symbolizes people of African descent and the earth, and three green candles represent hope and the future. Together, these candles represent the colours of the Pan-African flag, which symbolizes unity among African people.
The City of Toronto is proud to recognize Kwanzaa Week and remains committed to continue the important work of promoting respect, equity, and systemic change for people of African descent. Through the Toronto Action Plan to Confront Anti-Black Racism, the City of Toronto has implemented several initiatives to remove barriers and make systemic changes to eliminate anti-Black racism in City services, planning, policies, and spaces. The Confronting Anti-Black Racism (CABR) Unit continues to carry out these initiatives and align its goals with those of the United Nation’s International Decade for People of African Descent.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim December 26, 2023 – January 1, 2024 as “Kwanzaa Week” in the City of Toronto.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
November 2023
WHEREAS domestic abuse or domestic violence can be any pattern of behaviour in a relationship used to gain or maintain power or control over an intimate partner. It can include several forms of abuse such as physical, verbal, psychological, economic, and sexual abuse.
Domestic violence can take place within a range of relationships including couples who are married, living together or dating. While anyone can be a victim of domestic abuse, it is sad to note that in 2021, eight out of 10 victims or 79 per cent of victims who reported intimate partner violence were women and girls.
Many may be afraid to leave their abusive situations and might not know where to turn to for help. We can help survivors of domestic violence by striving to better understand the many different forms of domestic violence, recognizing the signs and symptoms, and helping survivors of domestic violence find the proper supports when they ask for help. We can also help by listening and letting survivors know they are not alone.
Earlier this year, Toronto City Council declared gender-based violence and intimate-partner violence to be an epidemic in Toronto. City Council is urging the Provincial and Federal Governments to rightfully declare intimate partner and gender-based violence an epidemic and enact the additional 85 recommendations from the inquest into the 2015 murders of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam.
The City of Toronto’s Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence Policy supports employees who may be experiencing domestic violence. They are encouraged to contact the City of Toronto’s Employee Assistance Program by calling 416-392-6633 so they can confidentially receive the necessary supports they may require.
The City of Toronto has also partnered with community agencies to develop and implement #HereToHelpTO, to raise awareness and connect residents to the various social service agencies, programs, and supports that are available to residents experiencing violence or abuse.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 2023 as “Domestic Violence Awareness Month” in the City of Toronto.
Hindu Heritage Month
November 2023
WHEREAS Canada is home to approximately 830,000 Canadians of Hindu Heritage. This month provides a wonderful opportunity to recognize and celebrate them and the many members of the Hindu community who live in Toronto.
During Hindu Heritage Month, residents are also encouraged to learn more about the community’s rich culture, diverse heritage, deep history and traditions, as well as the many ways that Hindu Canadians have contributed to the fabric of our city and country.
This community forms an important part of Toronto’s motto: “Diversity Our Strength.” During this month, we acknowledge with gratitude the many significant socio-economic and cultural contributions that the Hindu community has made and continues to make to our city.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 2023 as “Hindu Heritage Month” in the City of Toronto.
Indigenous Disability Awareness Month
November 2023
WHEREAS during Indigenous Disability Awareness Month (IDAM), we celebrate the valued contributions of Indigenous Peoples with disabilities. Indigenous Peoples often believe “disabilities” are gifts from the Creator. As we honour and celebrate Indigenous Peoples with disabilities, we also recognize that they continue to face barriers to their active participation in society.
The Indigenous population of Canada experiences a disability rate that is higher (1 in 3) than that of the general population (1 in 5). When coupled with other barriers such as systemic racism and oppressive colonialist attitudes, Indigenous Peoples with disabilities face daunting unemployment, poverty, housing, health inequities and challenges when seeking out daily supports. Many geographically remote Indigenous communities also face additional obstacles such as transportation issues, further limiting access to community amenities, and health and social services. They become isolated from their communities and must leave their homes and support systems behind when they need to access care.
As part of the City of Toronto’s Reconciliation Action Plan 2022-2032, the City is committed to working with the diverse Indigenous communities of Toronto and recognizes that their voices must be involved in decision-making processes. We acknowledge the ongoing colonialism, while also recognizing the sovereign Indigenous rights, strengths, courage and resilience of Indigenous Peoples. By engaging with Indigenous Peoples with disabilities and Indigenous leaders and health care partners, the City can work with them to create equitable access through programs and services uniquely designed to meet current needs and rectify service deficiencies.
The City of Toronto respects and honours the lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples with disabilities, and is committed to creating a safe, inclusive, accessible environment where everyone can receive the necessary supports. We are committed to being an inclusive city that considers the needs of all residents, including the unique needs of Indigenous and disabled residents, in city policies and in future planning. We are also committed to being disability aware by embedding accessibility and universal design principles to help make city buildings accessible and accommodating environments.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 2023 as “Indigenous Disability Awareness Month” in the City of Toronto.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
November 2023
WHEREAS lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Canada. Approximately 1 in 30 Canadians will be diagnosed with lung and bronchus cancer in their lifetime with an estimated 98 per cent of cases occurring in people who are aged 50 or older. Smoking, second hand smoke, a family history of cancer, and environmental pollutants can all be factors that may lead to a lung cancer diagnosis. While there is no cure for lung cancer, early detection through screening can save lives.
We can give our support to those living with lung cancer by advocating for lung cancer research, screening and treatment, and encouraging people to seek medical attention if they have symptoms and feel unwell.
The City gratefully acknowledges organizations that help to raise awareness of diseases and conditions that impact our residents, while offering them supports to live with these diseases.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 2023 as “Lung Cancer Awareness Month” in the City of Toronto.
Take Our Kids to Work Day
November 1, 2023
WHEREAS Take Our Kids to Work Day is a national job-shadowing experience for Grade 9 students, encouraging them to spend the day in a professional working environment with parents, guardians, relatives, friends or volunteers. It is a valuable learning opportunity that exposes students to a wide variety of career options and fields of work. Students learn important skills and gain hands-on experiences in a number of professional settings to help inspire them to think about their future career paths and choices.
Participants in the City of Toronto’s Take Our Kids to Work Day program will learn more about how city government works and the importance of being engaged in city politics and civic issues.
An educated community is key to a city’s sustainability. Take Our Kids to Work Day is a chance for youth to explore the importance of education and skills development. The City of Toronto supports students as they begin to navigate their journey into becoming working professionals.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 1, 2023 as “Take Our Kids to Work Day” in the City of Toronto.
Día de Muertos
November 2, 2023
WHEREAS today we mark Día de Muertos, the Day of the Dead, a culturally significant day with roots of the celebration tracing back to the Aztec people, who held rituals to honour the dead. Today, Mexican and Latin American communities celebrate the day both in Toronto and across the globe.
During present Día de Muertos celebrations, families celebrate their deceased loved ones with special traditions, such as building altars, which are thought to help them briefly reunite with the souls of those who have died. The altars include photos and items of their loved ones and symbolic items representing the four elements of life, namely water, earth, fire, and wind. Sweets such as pan de muerto and sugar skulls feature prominently on the altars and are surrounded by marigolds which are believed to help guide the souls home. Skulls and skeletons, often portrayed as La Calavera Catrina, or Elegant Skull, continue to remind people of their own mortality as part of the natural circle of life. These rituals have evolved and still remain important symbols of the celebration.
Dia de Muertos is a time of joyful celebration and reflection to honour all that we have lost rather than to mourn. We acknowledge rich traditions like these that contribute to the cultural fabric of our city and form an important part of Toronto’s motto: “Diversity Our Strength”.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 2, 2023, as “Día de Muertos” in the City of Toronto.
Remembrance Week
November 5 – 11, 2023
WHEREAS during Remembrance Week, we honour and pay our respects to all Canadian veterans who have served and continue to serve to uphold the peace and freedoms we enjoy today. We also pause on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, to remember those who paid the ultimate price to protect our freedoms.
In 2023, we mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. Nearly 30,000 Canadians served on land, sea and in the air during the conflict, which began in 1950. The Korean Armistice Agreement, signed in July 1953, brought an end to the fighting but it did not bring an end to the conflict. Sadly, 516 Canadians were killed during the Korean War and approximately 38 of them had connections to Toronto.
We also remember Canadian peacekeepers who, as members of the Canadian Forces, have taken part in many operations to keep the peace in countries around the world over the past 75 years, sometimes at the steep cost of their lives.
The City of Toronto acknowledges the bravery, courage and sacrifices of all Canadian veterans who fought for the peace and freedom we enjoy today, in times of war, in peacekeeping operations, and in times of need here at home and abroad. In the face of many global challenges, we continue to honour both those who have served, and those who continue to serve, along with their families.
During Remembrance Week, I encourage Toronto residents to support the Royal Canadian Legion by purchasing and wearing a poppy in memory of the more than 100,000 Canadians who gave their lives.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 5 – 11, 2023 as “Remembrance Week” in the City of Toronto.
Treaties Recognition Week
November 5 – 11, 2023
WHEREAS for thousands of years, Indigenous people have lived on the land now called Canada with their own cultures, traditions and ways of being and knowing. Since 1701, the British Government and later, the Canadian government, and Indigenous communities entered into several treaties that defined the respective rights of Indigenous peoples and European newcomers to use North American lands that Indigenous peoples traditionally occupied. The treaties were put in place to support peaceful economic and military relations. These treaties formed a framework for living and sharing land traditionally owned by Indigenous Peoples. Over time, these agreements became eroded because of colonialist worldviews and systemic discrimination against Indigenous Peoples.
Treaties Recognition Week began in 2016 in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report that was released in 2015, which sought to increase treaty awareness and provide the public with an important opportunity to learn why treaties matter. It offers a valuable opportunity to listen to Indigenous voices and understand the impact of treaty violations on Indigenous families and communities. The Government of Canada has officially recognized 70 historic treaties that are shared with 364 First Nations communities and represent over 600,000 First Nations peoples in Canada. The Federal government has begun making reparations in fulfilling these past agreements, as it begins the journey of reconciliation and addresses the negative impacts of a long history of colonialism.
There are 133 First Nations communities in Ontario alone, that belong to a complex system of treaty obligations, federal-provincial division of powers and jurisdictions, and constitutionally protected Aboriginal and Treaty rights. Ontario is covered by at least 46 treaties and other agreements, and Toronto is covered specifically by Treaty 13, also known as the Toronto Purchase and the Williams Treaties.
The word “Treaty” does not exist in many Indigenous Languages. When Indigenous people look at treaties, they look at the agreements that have been made before treaties, as One Dish with One Spoon Wampum. The teachings of the agreement focus on the earth being one dish that provides for us all, and we collectively have only one spoon to use in sharing all of the earth’s resources. Therefore, you take only what you need and you always leave something in the dish for others, and you look after the dish carefully.
Though many of these treaties were signed more than a century ago, treaty commitments are as valid today as when they were first signed, and we are all treaty people who are obligated to abide by them. The treaty relationship as well as new treaties are based on a foundation of recognition of rights, respect, co-operation, and partnership with Indigenous Peoples.
During Treaties Recognition week, everyone is encouraged to learn more about treaties and treaty rights that govern the lands on which they live. By educating ourselves about our collective treaty rights and agreements, we can make meaningful progress towards truth, justice, and reconciliation.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 5 – 11, 2023 as “Treaties Recognition Week” in the City of Toronto.
Inuit Day
November 7, 2023
WHEREAS today on the birthdate of the founder of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Eben Hopson, we celebrate the rich culture, history, and significant contributions of Inuit. Approximately 180,000 Inuit who live in the circumpolar Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia are represented by the Inuit Circumpolar Council on matters of international importance. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first circumpolar meeting of Arctic Indigenous Peoples.
Today is also a day to raise awareness of the over 64,200 Inuit who live in Canada. The Inuit culture is focused on communities with close ties to land, a dedication to community and a keen sense of self-reliance, which guides their daily living. 53 communities across Northern Canada live in Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Canada. It is made up of the land claims regions of Nunavut, Nunavik in Northern Quebec, Nunatsiavut in Northern Labrador, and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories.
One of the significant issues faced by the Inuit is addressing climate change in the Arctic. As part of the Arctic Peoples’ Conference in 2023, Arctic Indigenous People from all over the world including the Inuit are calling on governments to “recognize Indigenous contributions including Indigenous Knowledge, and their innovations and solutions, which are being asked to be shared, communicated, and manifested to prevent, mitigate, and adapt to climate change impacts across the Arctic.”
The City of Toronto’s Reconciliation Action Plan 2022-2032 recognizes the Inuit as original peoples of what is now called Canada and as self-determining peoples, who have Treaty, constitutional, and human rights that must be recognized and respected. As part of this Plan, The City of Toronto is committed to working towards truth, justice, and reconciliation with Inuit.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 7, 2023, as “Inuit Day” in the City of Toronto.
Indigenous Veterans Day
November 8, 2023
WHEREAS today on Indigenous Veterans Day, we acknowledge all Indigenous Peoples who have served and continue to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces. The First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples have a long and proud tradition of military service to what we now call Canada.
More than 12,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples served to defend Canada in the War of 1812, the First and Second World Wars, in Korea and Afghanistan, as well as in UN peacekeeping. Voluntary enlistment by Indigenous Peoples was higher on a per capita basis for the World Wars than any other ethno-social community in Canada. Indigenous soldiers who transmitted sensitive messages through their Indigenous languages, “code talkers”, were instrumental in ensuring sensitive information was kept safe, which was an important factor in helping end the Second World War.
Indigenous Peoples in Canada have fought on the front line of every major battle Canada has been involved in and have done so with valour and distinction. It was not until 1995, fifty years after the Second World War that Indigenous Peoples were allowed to lay Remembrance Day wreaths at the National War Memorial to remember and honour their dead comrades.
Many status Indigenous soldiers had to become enfranchised before they could sign up to fight in the Second World War, which meant that when they returned to their home communities, they no longer had Indian status. This still affects many First Nations families to this day.
Approximately 2,700 Indigenous Peoples are currently serving in Canadian Armed Forces in operations at home and around the world. On Indigenous Veterans Day, the City of Toronto acknowledges with gratitude the legacy and valued contributions of Indigenous military service within local communities, throughout Canada and around the world. The City of Toronto acknowledges the bravery, courage and sacrifices of all veterans who fought for the peace and freedom we enjoy today. We continue to honour Indigenous veterans while committing ourselves to having a greater respect and appreciation for their service.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 8, 2023 as “Indigenous Veterans Day” in the City of Toronto.
Immunization Day
November 10, 2023
WHEREAS Immunization Day is a day dedicated to highlighting the efficacy of vaccines in our city and promoting their use as a safeguard against vaccine-preventable diseases. This day also highlights the pivotal role that immunization has played in preserving lives and upholding public health not just in Toronto but globally.
The City of Toronto recognizes the profound impact that immunization has on public health outcomes and in reducing long term healthcare costs. Immunization has contributed to improved overall public health and increased life expectancy by helping to prevent the spread and severity of infectious diseases to vulnerable people in our community. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, immunizations have played and continue to play a significant role in supporting our city’s recovery.
Together, we can make a collective commitment to fortify the health and resilience of every member of our community and create a healthier environment for all through immunization.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 10, 2023 as “Immunization Day” in the City of Toronto.
Toronto Argos Day
November 10, 2023
WHEREAS our Toronto Argonauts took to the field in their 65th season and qualified for the 2023 Canadian Football League (CFL) Playoffs, clinching first place in the East division, and securing their spot in the East Division Finals for the third straight year. This incredible feat was last achieved by the team from 1982-1984.
Our defending champions began their 2023 campaign with an incredible 11-1 record, the best start to a season in their franchise history, and clinched first place, with six games remaining in the season. The Double Blue continued to assert their dominance en route to a 16-2 finish, tying the CFL record for most wins in an 18-game season. Tomorrow, the Argos will take on the Montreal Alouettes at BMO Field, as they battle to represent the East in the 110th Grey Cup.
On Toronto Argos Day, I encourage everyone in our city – and Argo fans across the country and the world – to wear the double blue to give our full appreciation and support to our team.
The City of Toronto would like to thank the players, coaches, managers, staff, and fans for an incredible 2023 season, which saw our hometown team break multiple CFL and franchise records along the way. We are extremely proud of the Toronto Argos and look forward to enthusiastically cheering them on in their post-season play.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 10, 2023 as “Toronto Argos Day” in the City of Toronto. Let’s go Argoooooos!
Children’s Grief Awareness Day
November 16, 2023
WHEREAS today we turn our attention to children in our city and across the country who are experiencing grief.
Going through the grieving process can be overwhelming for an adult and even more so for a child who is processing the loss of a parental figure, family member or friend, at a young age.
Grief can have devastating impacts on children by harming their physical and mental wellbeing as well as affecting their quality of life. It may also impact their relationships with others, such as classmates and friends.
Grief-stricken children may also experience sadness or depression, making it hard for them to take part in the activities they once enjoyed.
Today on Children’s Grief Awareness Day, we give our support to grieving children, letting them know they are not alone as they go through the difficult journey of healing from loss. It is also an opportunity to let families know that supports are available to assist them and their children with their grieving process.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 16, 2023, as “Children’s Grief Awareness Day” in the City of Toronto.
Louis Riel Day
November 16, 2023
WHEREAS on this day in 1885, Louis Riel was executed for leading the Northwest Resistance in defense of the Métis people. Canada’s encroachment into the west spearheaded a forced migration for the Métis people who had originally settled in Manitoba, as they were pushed towards Saskatchewan and across Turtle Island. However, Canada’s western expansion persisted as they continued to send surveyors to plot and divide land. At risk of losing their lands entirely, Louis Riel appealed to the Government of Canada and received no assistance, leading to what is now known as the Northwest Resistance. Following the end of the resistance, Métis people were forced to hide their identities for fear of reprisal and resorted to live in hiding, becoming “the forgotten people.”
The defeat of the Northwest resistance, and the capture and subsequent hanging of Louis Riel on November 16, 1885, perpetuated hostile, racist and colonialist attitudes against Métis people that would prevail over the next century. Riel’s death would give rise to a legacy of mistreatment and abuse that would inflict lasting intergenerational trauma upon Métis and Indigenous Peoples across Canada.
Today, Louis Riel is remembered as a great Métis leader, a founder of confederation, a political and spiritual leader, and an advocate for the rights of equity-deserving people.
He was declared a founder of Manitoba in 1992 and is set to receive the honorary title of Manitoba’s first premier. He is memorialized as a champion for minority rights, bilingualism, and social justice – values that define us as Canadians today.
In beginning the process of reconciliation, on August 19, 2022, the City of Toronto offered an official apology to the Métis people for its role in financially contributing to the militarized action against Métis people during the Northwest Resistance. At the time, the City of Toronto had provided supplies to the militia troops, in addition to sending hundreds of volunteer militia to suppress the resistance. With this apology, it is hoped that the Métis can begin healing from the injustices of the past, while honouring the sacrifices of their ancestors, and contributing to the pride of Métis culture and identity for future generations.
The City of Toronto recognizes Louis Riel’s contribution to Métis communities and acknowledges the contributions the Métis make to Toronto. The City is committed to supporting Indigenous communities and working together with them in fulfilling Louis Riel’s vision and advancing truth, justice and reconciliation with Indigenous people.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 16, 2023 as “Louis Riel Day” in the City of Toronto.
Gordon Lightfoot Day
November 17, 2023
WHEREAS today on his birthday, we honour Gordon Lightfoot, a renowned musician and recording artist, who contributed immensely to Canadian arts and culture throughout his decades-long career.
Though he called Toronto home for much of his life, Gordon Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, in 1938, and began performing there on local radio and in regional music festivals. He wrote his first song while in high school; he later attended music college in Los Angeles, returning to Toronto in 1959 as a choral performer and folk singer with a solid grounding in music theory. While launching his career as a singer-songwriter in Toronto’s vibrant folk-music scene in the 1960s, Gordon cited Bob Dylan as his musical inspiration.
Gordon soon found success with a blend of folk, soft rock, and country. His 1966 debut album, Lightfoot!, featured two instant classics: “For Loving Me” and “Ribbon of Darkness”. A few years later, Gordon’s single “If You Could Read My Mind” would catapult him to worldwide fame. His extensive catalog also included such iconic songs as “Early Morning Rain,” “Sundown,” “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. His music was recorded by international legends like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and the Grateful Dead, and by Canadian stars like Blue Rodeo, Sarah McLachlan, and the Tragically Hip.
During an unparalleled career spanning almost six decades, Gordon Lightfoot won 17 Juno Awards, was nominated for five Grammy Awards, and was celebrated through inductions into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was promoted to a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2021, he was awarded the Key to the City of Toronto during the grand reopening of Massey Hall, where he performed over 170 times throughout his life.
Gordon maintained unbreakable bonds with Toronto. His long-time residence remained here, and he was often seen at local music venues, watching touring acts and checking out emerging local artists.
Gordon Lightfoot is a Toronto icon and one of Canada’s greatest artists, elevating Canadian music on stages across the world. He is a remarkable musician whose musical legacy reflects our country’s history, geography, and stories.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 17, 2023, as “Gordon Lightfoot Day” in the City of Toronto.
Prematurity Day
November 17, 2023
WHEREAS today we raise awareness of the 30,000 Canadian babies who are born preterm each year, their families, and those who care for them, in the first delicate weeks and months of their lives. A preterm birth is defined as babies born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed.
Prematurity Day offers an opportunity to discuss concrete actions to improve the outcomes for premature babies and their families. One of these actions is supporting parents to establish a close bond with their babies during the first weeks of their lives and while the babies are in hospital neonatal units. Parent-infant connection can help reduce mortality and morbidity, infections, hospital readmissions and helps support the lactation process in breastfeeding parents. It is important to empower parents as key caregivers by engaging them through effective communication, education, and decision-making.
We can work towards better outcomes for preterm babies by advocating for the essential supports they require to thrive.
The City of Toronto thanks organizations that are committed to raising awareness of this important issue that impact our residents.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 17, 2023 as “Prematurity Day” in the City of Toronto.
National Child Day
November 20, 2023
WHEREAS on National Child Day we celebrate Canada’s commitment to upholding the rights of children. This day is also an opportunity to recognize two historic events: the signing of the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1959, as well as the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Today is also Universal Children’s Day, which is a global celebration recognized by many countries around the world.
Canada officially endorsed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991. This year marks the 30th anniversary of National Child Day which has been celebrated across Canada since 1993. This year’s theme #EveryChildEveryRight emphasizes that the eight million children in Canada are entitled to receive all their rights under the law, including being treated with dignity and respect, having their basic needs be met, having every opportunity to reach their full potential, being provided with opportunities to speak, and be heard, and being protected from harm.
Children are important members of our community, and we must listen to them and take their needs into consideration when we plan and make decisions on their behalf and provide them with nurturing and loving environments that ensure their personal growth and success.
The City of Toronto is committed to the well-being of children and their families and recognizes children as valued residents who bring unique ideas and perspectives to our city.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 20, 2023, as “National Child Day” in the City of Toronto.
Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2023
WHEREAS on the Trans Day of Remembrance, we honour the Trans people who lost their lives due to transphobia and anti-transgender violence.
It is very sad to know that Two-Spirit, Trans and non-binary communities continue to experience high rates of violence, harassment, and discrimination. Today, we acknowledge the deep struggles as well as the inspiring determination and courage of Trans people to be their full selves in a world that refuses to understand them. We denounce the anti-trans rallies that took place recently in our city and province and firmly reject any form of discrimination and hate against our young Trans residents and all Trans people.
Two-Spirit, Trans and non-binary people in Toronto are our family members, friends, neighbours and co-workers who make immense contributions to our city. We can all work to help make Trans people and their communities feel welcomed as valued members of our society.
The City of Toronto strives to ensure the fundamental rights of all Torontonians. We are committed to creating a safe community for all, where people can freely express their gender, and participate fully in our society without fear of repercussion. By continuing to apply an intersectional gender-based lens in its programs and services, the City of Toronto is actively working to create an equitable and inclusive Toronto for all.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 20, 2023 as “Trans Day of Remembrance” in the City of Toronto.
National Housing Day
November 22, 2023
WHEREAS each year on November 22, we observe National Housing Day in Toronto to reflect on what we have achieved and raise awareness on what still needs to be done to ensure that all residents in this city have access to an affordable and supportive home.
The City of Toronto recognizes that safe, adequate and affordable housing is essential to the dignity and well-being of a person and necessary for building sustainable, inclusive and complete communities.
The City of Toronto continues to make significant financial investments demonstrating its leadership and commitment to addressing the housing and homelessness crisis in Toronto. Over the last two years, the City of Toronto, along with partners across sectors, has made strong progress on implementing the HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan. This includes advancing a human rights-based approach to housing, increasing the supply of affordable and supportive homes, protecting the existing supply of homes, assisting renters and enhancing cross-sector and intergovernmental partnerships. In addition to these joint efforts, there has been tremendous work led by Indigenous organizations, non-profit and co-operative housing providers, private sector housing providers and healthcare partners. These collective efforts have been, and will continue to be, pivotal to ensuring that all Torontonians have a stable roof over their heads.
The City of Toronto recognizes that addressing Toronto’s complex housing challenges requires a whole-of-government and whole-of-community approach. Increasing access to affordable homes and related supports for Torontonians requires new and enhanced policies, programs and investments from all orders of government. It also requires support and participation from the Indigenous, non-profit, co-operative, philanthropic, academic and business sectors, as well as society.
The City’s ongoing work to improve residents’ access to homes that meet their needs aims to make Toronto a more inclusive and equitable city. Addressing the current housing crisis is critical to supporting the social, cultural and economic growth and prosperity of Toronto, the province, and the country.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 22, 2023 as “National Housing Day” in the City of Toronto.
International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women
November 25, 2023
WHEREAS on this day in 1981, women’s rights advocates created a day to raise awareness of gender-based violence and honour three women from the Dominican Republic, the Mirabel Sisters, who were murdered on November 25, 1960, at the request of the Dominican Republic’s dictator, Rafael Trujillo.
On February 7, 2000, The United Nations’ General Assembly officially designated November 25 as the date in which the global community could collectively raise awareness of the need to end violence against women. Today also marks the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism, an annual international campaign that begins with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and concludes with Human Rights Day on December 10.
Equity-deserving groups such as women, girls, and gender diverse people tend to experience gender-based violence much more frequently than the general population. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence provides an essential opportunity to call out and name gender-based violence against women and girls.
In 2008, the United Nations launched the campaign UNITE by 2030 to End Violence Against Women which runs parallel to the 16 Days of Activism campaign. The goal of the global campaign is to actively seek solutions to prevent and eliminate violence against women, girls, and gender diverse people. The 2023 theme is “UNITE! Invest to prevent violence against women and girls.” The campaign asks people to share actions they are personally taking to working towards a world that is free from violence against women and girls. It also asks world governments to share how they are investing in gender-based violence prevention.
Earlier this year, Toronto City Council declared gender-based violence and intimate-partner violence to be an epidemic in Toronto. City Council is urging the Provincial and Federal Governments to rightfully declare intimate partner and gender-based violence an epidemic and enact the additional 85 recommendations from the inquest into the 2015 murders of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam.
The City of Toronto is committed to promoting fundamental human rights and ensuring that all women, girls, and gender diverse people can live in city that recognizes and supports their needs and amplifies their rights. The City of Toronto’s Gender Equity Unit is working to improve outcomes for women, girls, and gender diverse people by developing a Gender Equity Strategy to help inform equitable program planning for women, girls and gender diverse people who make up at least 52 per cent of Toronto’s population.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 25, 2023, as “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women” in the City of Toronto.
GivingTuesday
November 28, 2023
WHEREAS GivingTuesday follows immediately after Cyber Monday to officially kick off the start of charitable giving during the holiday season. A day to encourage global giving, it provides an opportunity for Canadians to think of their local communities as well as the less fortunate while doing their holiday shopping.
GivingTuesday is an opportunity to raise money for local charities and non-profits, run food and clothing drives, give blood, encourage kindness, help a neighbour and celebrate generosity. On each GivingTuesday, the collective contributions of individual residents in our communities make a positive impact.
Residents are encouraged to embrace the spirit of hope and joy during the festive season, while finding ways to help everyone in our city feel appreciated and supported during the holidays.
The City of Toronto gratefully acknowledges organizations and individuals who are committed to caring for the wellbeing of our residents.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim November 28, 2023 as “GivingTuesday” in the City of Toronto.
Circular Economy Month
October 2023
WHEREAS a circular economy is a way of designing, producing, and consuming that reduces waste and makes the most of the resources we have. It encourages us to rethink our systems and economies so that human activity supports the health of natural systems. A circular economy challenges us to take less, to use better, and to make sure our economies and our choices support the natural environment that we rely on.
The City of Toronto has adopted the aspirational goals of a zero waste future and of making Toronto the first city in Ontario with a circular economy. The City is working to incorporate circular economy principles into the design and delivery of our programs and services in an effort to prevent additional waste from being produced and build a greener economy and community for Toronto residents and businesses. The development of a Circular Economy Road Map will recommend actions that the City and other interested parties can take to aid the transition to a circular economy.
Currently, the City manages close to 900,000 tonnes of waste. The City’s Long Term Waste Management Strategy prioritizes waste reduction and minimizing the amount of waste sent to landfill. The Waste Strategy includes waste reduction, reuse, repurposing and recycling activities that promote resource conservation and reduce environmental impacts. The Waste Strategy also emphasizes the importance of community engagement and encourages the reduction and prevention of waste, while maximizing its value before disposal and supporting the shift towards a circular economy.
Communities, businesses, organizations and individuals all play an essential role in promoting waste reduction and the move towards a circular economy. Transitioning to a circular economy will help to build a resilient, green, and prosperous future for Toronto residents and businesses.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2023 as “Circular Economy Month” in the City of Toronto.
Dwarfism Awareness and Acceptance Month
October 2023
WHEREAS during October, we raise awareness of dwarfism, a genetic, medical condition that can result in physical, psychological and societal challenges.
There are 400 types of dwarfism with varying signs and symptoms for everyone with this condition. The most common form of dwarfism is achondroplasia which causes people to be of a short stature.
Those who live with dwarfism can encounter many physical barriers in a world built for taller individuals. In addition to physical barriers, there are often obstacles put in place by society that also greatly hinder the lived experiences of those with dwarfism even before any potential medical complications of dwarfism are considered. People with dwarfism should be addressed by their first names, and terms such as ‘short statured individual’, or ‘little person’ should be used when mentioning their condition.
We can offer our support to those with dwarfism by understanding the daily challenges they encounter and work towards removing the barriers that prevent them from becoming active participants in society.
The City of Toronto thanks organizations that are committed to raising awareness of conditions that impact our residents, while offering supports to help improve their wellbeing.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2023 as “Dwarfism Awareness and Acceptance Month” in the City of Toronto.
Dyslexia Awareness Month
October 2023
WHEREAS dyslexia is a brain-based learning difference that causes difficulty with reading, writing and spelling comprehension for approximately 10 to 20 per cent of Canadians. People of every gender, age and
socio-economic background can be diagnosed with dyslexia, which is a genetic condition.
Learning can be particularly hard for students who live with dyslexia,
with an estimated two students in every classroom having the condition. An early diagnosis and the proper supports can assist students and learners of all ages with dyslexia in pursuing their educational goals and in leading full lives.
The City of Toronto thanks organizations that are committed to raising awareness of conditions that affect all Canadians.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2023 as “Dyslexia Awareness Month” in the City of Toronto.
German Heritage Month
October 2023
WHEREAS members of the German community began to arrive in Canada as early as the 18th century. More than 3 million people of German descent call Canada their home, many of whom have roots in Toronto.
This month provides an opportunity to learn more about Germany’s rich history, traditions and customs and the contributions Canadians of German descent have made to our country and our city. It is also the month of Oktoberfest, a festival that brings communities together and celebrates German Heritage and its vibrant culture.
This community forms an important part of Toronto’s motto: “Diversity Our Strength.” During this month, we acknowledge with gratitude the many significant socio-economic and cultural contributions that the German Canadian community has made to our city.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2023 as “German Heritage Month” in the City of Toronto.
Hispanic Heritage Month
October 2023
WHEREAS this month we celebrate the many communities in Toronto, made up of many first, second and third generation Canadians from 23 countries across Latin America. They have rich heritage, customs and traditions that form a dynamic part of the cultural mosaic of our city and contribute immensely to Toronto’s motto: “Diversity Our Strength.”
This month provides a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the history of these vibrant communities.
While the term “Hispanic” refers to those that speak Spanish or come from Spanish-speaking populations, the City acknowledges that the communities from that region are diverse and made up of many identities, such as those with Latin, Indigenous and/or African heritage. These communities all have unique histories with colonialism and many distinct experiences, traditions, cultures.
We acknowledge with gratitude, the many significant contributions that these communities have made and continue to make in Toronto.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2023 as “Hispanic Heritage Month” in the City of Toronto.
Islamic Heritage Month
October 2023
WHEREAS this month we celebrate Muslim communities and the nearly 1.8 million Canadians who belong to these communities.
It is an opportunity to recognize the long history of diverse Muslim communities, while learning more about their rich cultures and traditions and the valuable contributions they make to our city.
As we honour and celebrate our Muslim communities, we also acknowledge that crimes and discrimination against them continue to take place. The Toronto for All Anti-Islamophobia public education campaign raises awareness of Islamophobia and the need for Torontonians to respect the religious and cultural practices of Muslims in Toronto.
During Islamic Heritage Month, we acknowledge with gratitude, Toronto’s Muslim communities that form an important part of the rich cultural mosaic of our city and contribute to Toronto’s motto: “Diversity Our Strength”.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2023 as “Islamic Heritage Month” in the City of Toronto.
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
October 2023
WHEREAS this month, we promote the importance of accessibility, diversity and disability inclusion in the workplace and in our communities. We recognize the immense talents and contributions that people with disabilities make, while continuing to work towards a fully inclusive city. In addressing the need for accessible workplaces, it is important to note that not all disabilities are physical. The four most common disabilities experienced by Canadians are invisible ones such as pain, flexibility, mobility and mental health disabilities.
While many businesses in our city are already engaged in disability inclusivity, there is still much work to be done. People with disabilities earn approximately 20 per cent less than those without disabilities in Ontario. An estimated 18 per cent of Canadian employees with disabilities feel their disability makes it more difficult to change jobs due to difficulty in obtaining support or accommodations.
By employing inclusive hiring practices, being disability aware, and embedding accessibility and universal design principles within work environments, our city and its businesses can hire and retain valuable, talented workers who can thrive and grow professionally in accessible and accommodating environments.
The City of Toronto strives to become a leader in accessibility and disability inclusion through its policies, procedures and daily operations. Building an inclusive and diverse workforce is a foundational step in creating a more representative Toronto, where all residents can fully participate and have equal opportunities to succeed in their workplaces.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2023 as “National Disability Employment Awareness Month” in the City of Toronto.
Women’s History Month
October 2023
WHEREAS in 1992, the Federal Government officially designated October as Women’s History Month to honour the many women who played a key role in the development of Canada’s history. This year’s theme, Through Her Lens: Celebrating the Diversity of Women, highlights the unique experiences and challenges of Indigenous women, women from 2SLGBTQ+ communities, and newcomer, racialized and migrant women.
During Women’s History Month, we can learn more about how challenges and barriers that have historically been in place for women, are experienced to a greater degree by Indigenous, Black, racialized, immigrant and low-income women and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. It is an opportunity to amplify these voices and hear more about their lived experiences, in an effort to understand their unique perspectives, challenge the status quo and work towards creating a more equitable world for all women, girls and gender diverse people.
The City of Toronto’s Gender Equity Unit is developing a Gender Equity Strategy to help inform equitable program planning for women, girls and gender diverse people who make up at least 52 per cent of Toronto’s population.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2023 as “Women’s History Month” in the City of Toronto.
National Seniors Day
October 1, 2023
WHEREAS in 2010, the Parliament of Canada passed the Celebrating Canada’s Seniors Act that recognizes October 1 as National Seniors Day. Today we honour the many valuable contributions that seniors make to their communities as elders who deserve equity, respect, inclusion, and a good quality of life.
In order to fully support Toronto’s senior population, the necessary tools, supports and proper infrastructure are required to enable the population to live independently in our city. The City of Toronto is committed to providing programs and services that address the needs of seniors through the Toronto Seniors Strategy.
Through five key areas of health, housing, transportation, employment/income, and access to services, the City is working to ensure that seniors are able to age with dignity while remaining active participants in society.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 1, 2023 as “National Seniors Day” in the City of Toronto.
Wrongful Conviction Day
October 2, 2023
WHEREAS a person’s rights and freedoms are affected when they are punished for a crime that they did not commit.
Today, we aim to inform and educate people on the issues around wrongful convictions and how they impact those falsely convicted. Raising awareness about this day can help to prevent wrongful convictions in the future.
The City of Toronto gratefully acknowledges all those who work hard each and every day to overturn false convictions. They help ensure that the wrongly convicted can one day receive the true justice they rightfully deserve.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 2, 2023 as “Wrongful Conviction Day” in the City of Toronto.
Toronto Blue Jays Day
October 3, 2023
WHEREAS the Toronto Blue Jays took to the field for their 47th season and have qualified for the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason for the second straight year.
Throughout the season, our hometown team showed great heart and resilience in securing their third postseason appearance in four years during the final week of play. The Toronto Blue Jays look to continue their momentum as they take on the Minnesota Twins in the American League Wild Card Series, beginning what we hope is a deep postseason run in their quest for a third World Series championship.
Today, on Toronto Blue Jays Day, I encourage everyone in our city – and Blue Jays fans across the country and around the world – to wear blue and show our support and appreciation for our team.
The City of Toronto would like to thank the players, coaches, staff, and their fans for a wonderful season. We are extremely proud of our Toronto Blue Jays, and look forward to a very memorable post-season.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 3, 2023 as “Toronto Blue Jays Day” in the City of Toronto. Let’s go Blue Jays!
Sisters in Spirit Day
October 4, 2023
WHEREAS during Sisters in Spirit Day, vigils and ceremonies take place across the country, including here in Toronto, to honour the lives of missing or murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people.
Sisters in Spirit was a research, education and policy initiative that sought to raise awareness of missing Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people in Canada. Their findings resulted in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The inquiry discovered disproportionate amounts of violence and neglect in cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women due to reasons rooted in colonialism and colonial ideologies. The tragic loss of these lives has determined to be a genocide. Today, we are able to recognize and acknowledge these difficult truths thanks to the unrelenting efforts of Indigenous families, organizations and communities that remain committed to identifying and honouring the victims. The disappearance or the loss of a loved one leaves behind a legacy of intergenerational trauma for Indigenous Peoples and communities.
Although the Sisters in Spirit research initiative program has ended, the movement has inspired a number of vigils and ceremonies that pay tribute to the victims and ensures these lives are never forgotten. As vigils take place across the country, they remind us that we all must work together to prevent violence against Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people. The vigils also provide a space for healing, remembrance and solidarity for Indigenous communities.
The City of Toronto remains committed to working towards advancing truth, justice, and reconciliation with Indigenous communities, and to rebuild trust in local government. Action 12 of the City of Toronto’s Reconciliation Action Plan directly addresses the calls for justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. We are committed to working with Indigenous groups and organizations to ensure that the victims’ stories are heard, and to identify measures to increase the safety of Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people in our city.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 4, 2023 as “Sisters in Spirit Day” in the City of Toronto.
Green Sports Day
October 6, 2023
WHEREAS Green Sports Day is a day dedicated to increasing awareness about creating a sustainable future for sports through education, collaboration and innovation.
Sports organizations and leagues are seeing an ever-increasing demand from participants who wish to take part in sports teams and from sports fans who pack venues to watch their favourite teams play. They have had to expand their services in order to accommodate additional fans and new players. This increased participation can contribute to extra waste along with more energy consumption which in turn leads to increased emissions. While there are many health benefits to being active in sports, there is also a need for the sports industry to work towards creating a sustainable future.
The Canadian sports industry has developed and employed innovative programs and measures that champion this cause. Major sports events and venues use corporate-wide waste management sustainability strategies to reduce their environmental footprint. On an individual level, people can turn to second-hand sports equipment stores, repair shops, gear swaps, and other community resources to help extend the life of sporting equipment and divert them from landfills. However, greater efforts are needed to ensure that sports can benefit our mental and physical health while being models of sustainability that do not harm our natural environment.
The City of Toronto aims to make Toronto one of the most environmentally sustainable cities in the world, and is committed to achieving full sustainability and making our city a greener and better place to live, work and play.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 6, 2023 as “Green Sports Day” in the City of Toronto.
Woman, Life, Freedom Day
October 8, 2023
WHEREAS the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement is a women-led, international human rights movement that started in Iran following the death of Mahsa Jina Amini. Today on her birthday, we acknowledge this movement that has inspired women and people from all over the world to stand up for their individual rights and freedoms.
Our Iranian-Canadian residents are a valued part of the diverse society that makes our city a unique and welcoming place. The City of Toronto stands in solidarity with our Iranian-Canadian residents and with all the people of Iran, as they seek to live freely in a democratic society that respects and upholds their rights.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 8, 2023 as “Woman, Life, Freedom Day” in the City of Toronto.
World Mental Health Day
October 10, 2023
WHEREAS World Mental Health Day is a day that raises awareness and promotes actions that can encourage better mental health and wellness.
It is also a day to remind us of the importance of openly talking about mental health, which helps to eliminate some of the barriers and stigma that are sometimes associated with mental health issues.
The City of Toronto supports mental health through partnerships with non-profit and community-based health and social service organizations that provide access to a variety of services and supports. Residents who are struggling with mental health issues can call 2-1-1 to be connected to mental health services across the city.
Through the City of Toronto’s community-based network of services that are affordable and accessible for everyone, mental health concerns in our communities can be addressed.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 10, 2023 as “World Mental Health Day” in the City of Toronto.
I’m Library People Day
October 11, 2023
WHEREAS the Toronto Public Library Foundation (TPLF) began the city-wide awareness campaign, “I’m Library People”, in 2017 as a way to raise awareness of the value of libraries and the immense support they provide to communities. It includes merchandise that can be purchased to help support Toronto Public Library (TPL) collections, programs and services and innovative community spaces. Donations to the campaign go towards the Toronto Public Library’s highest priority needs.
Today on “I’m Library People Day”, we recognize the importance of the TPL to our city and its users, while highlighting the core values of our library system; equity, diversity, intellectual freedom, innovation, inclusion, integrity, accountability and quality service for all Torontonians.
Despite the challenges that libraries currently face, the Toronto Public Library continues to ensure all residents have access to a broad range of information, ideas and opportunities. Today, we celebrate the Toronto Public Library and its branches as public places and spaces that help us to learn and grow, while encouraging open, uncensored dialogue and new perspectives.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 11, 2023 as “I’m Library People Day” in the City of Toronto.
International Day of the Girl
October 11, 2023
WHEREAS the United Nations recognizes the International Day of the Girl to highlight the pressing issues faced by girls and gender diverse people around the world, and to encourage real change in addressing them. Some of these issues include access to education, gender equality, access to specialized health services, child marriage and gender based violence.
Girls and gender diverse people make valuable contributions to our city and to the world despite facing countless obstacles and barriers to their success. Girls and gender diverse people are talented, resilient, creative and resourceful people who have the power to be change makers when they are given the skills and opportunities to succeed.
Today, we are reminded that we all play an essential role in encouraging girls and gender diverse people to reach their full potential, including pursuing any professions and trades that may interest them. We can help create opportunities to support them in having their voices heard while making decision-making places areas where they feel welcomed and respected.
International Day of the Girl is an opportunity to seek positive and concrete solutions as we move towards a future that supports the leadership and potential of girls and gender diverse people.
The City of Toronto is developing its first Gender Equity Strategy that will work towards equitable outcomes for girls and gender diverse people who make up 52 per cent of Toronto’s population.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 11, 2023 as “International Day of the Girl” in the City of Toronto.
Toronto Public Health Day
October 11, 2023
WHEREAS today we honour 140 years of public health in Toronto. In 1883, a revised Public Health Act of Ontario bestowed powers on the City of Toronto and Dr. William Canniff was appointed our first medical officer of health. The initial mandate of the new Department of Health, now known as Toronto Public Health, was to ensure a clean water and air supply, as well as adequate housing and nutrition, health education and free medical and dental services for the less fortunate.
Under the leadership and vision of one of the next medical officers of heath, Dr. Charles Hastings, the public health unit quickly grew to become the largest in Canada. He was a social activist who documented slum conditions in Toronto and focused on preventive medicine for residents. His efforts helped Toronto Public Health to become a proven leader in preventive medicine.
From 1921 to 1981, Toronto Public Health concentrated on improvements to existing services and new medical developments such as the polio vaccine. By the 1950s, the focus turned to “lifestyle” diseases such as lung cancer, alcoholism, heart disease and social concerns such as family planning. In the 1970s, the public health unit was busy addressing public fears concerning emerging environmental hazards.
In the new millennium, Toronto Public Health has responded to numerous health emergencies including SARS and H1N1.
Over the past three years, Toronto Public Health has demonstrated unwavering leadership in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This tireless dedication has not only safeguarded the health of Toronto residents but has also had a significant impact on Canada’s overall response to this unprecedented public health crisis.
As we mark Toronto Public Health’s remarkable 140th anniversary, it is only fitting that we express our profound gratitude for their enduring commitment to the well-being of Torontonians. The diligent efforts of Toronto Public Health have played a pivotal role in fostering a sustainable health care system, nurturing a robust economy and cultivating thriving communities. These achievements have been made possible through the continuous collaboration and concerted efforts of numerous community partners and organizations.
As Toronto Public Health looks toward the future of health and health care in our city, it remains a beacon of leadership, supporting the development of a healthier Toronto. Their vital health services and programs, coupled with the development and implementation of sound public policies, continue to enhance the overall well-being of residents – contributing to a brighter and healthier tomorrow.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 11, 2023, as “Toronto Public Health Day” in the City of Toronto.
Mount Sinai Day
October 17, 2023
WHEREAS today we celebrate the centennial anniversary of Mount Sinai Hospital. Since opening its doors a century ago, Mount Sinai has been delivering exceptional medical care and ground-breaking research. Today, we celebrate the numerous achievements and milestones of Mount Sinai Hospital that began as a small maternity ward and has since grown to be one of Toronto’s largest hospitals.
Mount Sinai first opened in 1923 as the Hebrew Maternity and Convalescent Hospital on Yorkville Avenue thanks to the tireless efforts of four women in the Jewish community. Since then, the hospital has developed a reputation for world-wide excellence in multiple areas including genetic research, women and infant health, surgical oncology, gastrointestinal diseases, diabetes, general psychiatry, critical care, cardiology and much more.
On this milestone centennial anniversary, we honour and celebrate the immense contributions of Mount Sinai’s doctors, nurses and incredible staff who provide world-class, specialized care to patients in over 45 languages.
This occasion is the perfect opportunity to acknowledge with gratitude Mount Sinai’s commitment to the health and wellbeing of our residents.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 17, 2023 as “Mount Sinai Day” in the City of Toronto.
Child Care Worker Appreciation Day
October 17, 2023
WHEREAS, today we recognize the commitment of child care workers to children, families and to the communities that they serve.
Trained and knowledgeable Registered Early Childhood Educators and child care staff provide high-quality early learning and child care that is created to develop young peoples’ intellectual, emotional, social and physical development and later life outcomes.
Child care promotes the well-being of children, and responding to the needs of families by providing support in caring for their young members. This essential support enables residents to fully participate in and contribute to the economic and social life of their communities.
The City of Toronto acknowledges with gratitude, Early Childhood Educators and all child care workers who play an instrumental role in helping to shape the early, foundational years of our young residents.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 17, 2023 as “Child Care Worker Appreciation Day” in the City of Toronto.
Persons Day
October 18, 2023
WHEREAS on this day in 1929, Canada’s highest court of appeal ruled to include women in the legal definition of “persons”. On Persons Day, we recognize this historic decision did not come easily but was the result of the hard work and organizing efforts of a group of women who fought for gender equity in Canada.
The group was made up of activists, journalists and politicians, which included: Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby and Henrietta Muir Edwards, who were later known as the Famous Five.
The group petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on whether the word “persons” in Section 24 of the British North America Act (1867) included women. The Supreme Court ruled that, in its interpretation, women were not included as “persons” in the Act.
The women appealed the decision to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, England, which was Canada’s highest court of appeal at the time. On October 18, 1929, the Privy Council reversed the decision by the Supreme Court and ruled that women were in fact included as “persons” in the Act.
While the Privy Council’s ruling helped to further women’s participation in public and political life in Canada, the decision excluded Indigenous women and women of Asian heritage or decent. It is an important reminder that women’s rights and suffrage in Canada were not always equal for all women. We remain grateful to the Famous Five for their contributions to Canadian social and political life, as we continue to fight for the human rights and equity of all people in our city.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 18, 2023 as “Persons Day” in the City of Toronto.
Respiratory Therapy Week
October 22 – 28, 2023
WHEREAS Respiratory Therapy Week acknowledges the important work done by respiratory therapists in providing essential care to patients.
Respiratory therapists (RTs) are highly skilled and certified professionals in their field. They work closely with doctors to identify, diagnose and manage cardiopulmonary issues and airway management in patients. They also help educate patients and their families while lending their expertise in a variety of settings including intensive care units, extended care facilities, operating rooms, and laboratories.
The City of Toronto recognizes respiratory therapists for their contributions to the health and well-being of residents. The dedication and hard work of many specialized professionals enrich the lives of Torontonians, making our city stronger, safer, vibrant and healthy.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 22 – 28, 2023 as “Respiratory Therapy Week” in the City of Toronto.
World Polio Day
October 24, 2023
WHEREAS, every year on October 24, the United Nations observes World Polio Day on the birthday of Jonas Salk who developed the vaccine against polio, a viral infection that affects the immune and nervous systems, causing nerve damage or paralysis. Polio is most common in children under five, with those who are not fully vaccinated also being at risk of contracting the disease. Although there are ways to manage symptoms, there is currently no cure for polio.
The polio vaccine and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have helped to drastically reduce global polio cases.
While Canada has been polio-free for the last 20 years, there are countries that continue to experience polio outbreaks.
By raising awareness of the need to get vaccinated against polio, we can give our support to those who are dedicated to eradicating this disease.
The City gratefully acknowledges organizations that help to raise awareness of diseases and conditions that impact our residents, while offering them supports to live with these diseases.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 24, 2023 as “World Polio Day” in the City of Toronto.
Dress Purple Day
October 27, 2023
WHEREAS on Dress Purple Day, everyone is encouraged to wear purple in support of child abuse prevention, and emphasizes every child and youth’s right to safety and well-being in all spaces.
Today serves as a reminder that children have the right to feel safe physically, emotionally, spiritually and culturally. As one of the most vulnerable groups in our city, it is imperative that we ensure the safety and protection of our city’s children and youth by providing them ample support and resources to overcome any challenges they may face.
This day is also an opportunity for children’s aid societies to foster strong partnerships with their respective communities through community-based prevention and early intervention programs. In this regard, adults play an important role in being vigilant and recognizing the signs of child abuse. It is the legal duty of adults to report any concerns about the safety of a child or youth.
The City of Toronto recognizes that in order to cultivate a safe, respectful and inclusive environment, adults must work in tandem with children and maintain open communication to address issues and concerns that may arise. We continue to be committed to reinforcing our shared values of respect, dignity, diversity, independence and equity for children and youth. By working closely with community members, partners and organizations, we can create a caring and supportive city in which all children and youth can thrive, develop and grow into leaders of tomorrow.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 27, 2023 as “Dress Purple Day” in the City of Toronto.
Occupational Therapy Day
October 27, 2023
WHEREAS there are approximately 20,000 occupational therapists who practice their trades across Canada. They are skilled professionals who enable and empower their clients to participate more fully in their daily activities. Today we recognize their dedication and hard work in improving the quality of life for those who require their services.
The theme for this year’s Occupational Therapy Day, “Unity through Community”, emphasizes the importance of partnering with individuals and organizations to best serve the needs of the entire community.
The City of Toronto gratefully acknowledges the contributions of occupational therapists whose dedicated efforts contribute to the health and well-being of residents in our city.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 27, 2023 as “Occupational Therapy Day” in the City of Toronto.
Rett Syndrome Awareness Day
October 29, 2023
WHEREAS Rett syndrome is a rare genetic neurological disorder that occurs almost exclusively females, and is characterized by the impediment of nearly every aspect of one’s life including speech, motor skills, and even breathing.
Rett syndrome is usually recognized in children between 6 to 18 months, when developmental milestones such as speech and walking are delayed or missed, or when they lose these learned abilities. Though Rett syndrome is rare – 1 of every 10,000 female births, even fewer in males – the severity of this condition can lead to debilitating conditions such as slowed physical and mental development, seizures, and osteoporosis.
While there is no known cure for Rett syndrome, there are various treatments and medications available to help patients lead fulfilling lives into adulthood. Today, we raise awareness of this condition, and the need for therapy programs, further research, and support services so that those living with Rett syndrome can live full productive lives.
The City of Toronto extends its appreciation to organizations that raise awareness of disorders, illnesses and conditions that impact our residents, while offering support services and programs that can help improve their health and well-being.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 29, 2023 as “Rett Syndrome Awareness Day” in the City of Toronto.
World Stroke Day
October 29, 2023
WHEREAS stroke is a condition where a blood vessel in the brain is either blocked or ruptured, leading to a sudden loss of brain function. On World Stroke Day, we highlight the importance of recognizing the signs and symptoms of a stroke, and the prevention measures available.
It is important that we learn to recognize the signs of stroke, which include loss of motor function, slurred speech, and a drooping face. The earlier these signs are recognized and treated, the better the chance of full recovery. However, even with timely treatment efforts, strokes often have lasting impacts on patients’ physical and mental health.
Though 1 in 4 people will suffer a stroke in their lifetime, about 90% of strokes can be prevented with simple lifestyle changes such as keeping a healthy diet, being physically active, and avoiding excessive alcohol and drug abuse, all of which can drastically lower the risk of a stroke.
The City of Toronto extends its appreciation to organizations that raise awareness of disorders, illnesses and conditions that impact our residents, while offering support services and programs that can help improve their health and well-being.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim October 29, 2023 as “World Stroke Day” in the City of Toronto.
Arthritis Awareness Month
September 2023
WHEREAS Arthritis Awareness Month is an opportunity to raise awareness of arthritis which is a collection of conditions affecting the tissues. It causes pain and restricts mobility, while impacting the quality of life for 1 in 5 Canadians who live with the disease. For many, arthritis can threaten their ability to enjoy freedom of movement and to live pain-free. Many forms of arthritis can lead to episodic disability, leaving people unable to work due to their disease.
Treatment for arthritis is tailed to an individual’s needs and in consultation with medical professionals. For some who live with arthritis, healthy habits such as proper nutrition and exercising may help with daily pain management. While there is no cure for arthritis, it can be managed with the proper supports.
The City of Toronto thanks organizations that are committed to raising awareness of conditions that impact our residents and supporting them as they live with chronic conditions.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim September 2023 as “Arthritis Awareness Month” in the City of Toronto.
Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Day
September 4, 2023
WHEREAS Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder that causes fluid-filled cysts to grow on the kidneys. There is usually a family history of this disease and parents with PKD can pass on the disease to their children.
People can live with the disease for years before they experience any symptoms such as declining kidney function and kidney failure. Managing PKD involves focusing on maintaining optimal kidney health through lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise. Controlling risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including hypertension, is crucial as it commonly accompanies PKD. As PKD progresses, some individuals may eventually require a kidney transplant to address the deteriorating kidney function.
The City of Toronto thanks organizations that are committed to raising awareness of diseases that impact our residents and supporting them as they live with chronic conditions.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim September 4, 2023 as “Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Day” in the City of Toronto.
Toronto International Film Festival Weeks
September 7 – 17, 2023
WHEREAS every year in September the spotlight shines on the best and brightest in Canadian and international cinema as we celebrate the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As one of the world’s premier film festivals, TIFF provides engaging audience experiences while also championing the film industry. Through thought-provoking screenings, lectures, discussions, workshops, networking events, and more, the festival is at the forefront of creating lifelong and cherished cinematic memories for film lovers.
The City of Toronto is proud of the many writers, producers, directors, editors, industry workers, curators, artists, and celebrities, who have helped establish Toronto as a global centre for film and entertainment excellence. The City also recognizes how the creative film industry helps contribute to our collective artistic and cultural fabric.
The City of Toronto aims to be a supportive environment where artists and creators can innovate and thrive in their field. Toronto’s rich economic diversity drives growth, innovation and strengthens Toronto’s position as a global centre for business and the arts. As a cultural powerhouse in Canada, Toronto is a major artistic hub where creatives can innovate and share their work.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim September 7 – 17, 2023 as “Toronto International Film Festival Weeks” in the City of Toronto.
Ukrainian Heritage Day
September 7, 2023
WHEREAS, the first Ukrainian immigrants arrived in Canada on this day in 1891, opening the doors for generations of Ukrainians to settle in our country and city. Canada is now home to the second largest diaspora of Ukrainians, made up of approximately 1.36 million Ukrainian Canadians.
Today we celebrate Toronto’s Ukrainian community and the community’s many contributions to arts and culture, politics, education and sports. The Ukrainian Canadian community has played an instrumental role in helping to build our city and shape it into the culturally diverse place that it is known to be.
Thank you to the Ukrainian community for standing firmly in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Your continued support for them as well as your strength and resilience in these trying times is truly heartwarming and inspiring to witness.
On this day, we acknowledge with gratitude the many significant cultural and socio-economic contributions that the Ukrainian Canadian community has made in Toronto.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim September 7, 2023 as “Ukrainian Heritage Day” in the City of Toronto.
International Literacy Day
September 8, 2023
WHEREAS literacy is an essential skill and a human right that is required to be an active and contributing member of society. Literacy not only empowers individuals but also enables them to participate fully in society, fostering personal growth and active citizenship. Sadly, 763 million people around the world cannot read due to challenges beyond their control, which greatly impacts their future success.
This year’s International Literacy Day will focus on the theme, “Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies”. It will seek to raise awareness of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal # 4 that is centered on literacy, education and lifelong learning which are at the heart of building peaceful, just and sustainable societies. By encouraging literacy for all, we encourage a society where each person plays an active and contributing role and no one is left behind.
The City of Toronto recognizes the importance of literacy in helping to form an educated society which is key to a city’s sustainability. The City provides broad access to learning opportunities that support the different ways that people learn.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim September 8, 2023 as “International Literacy Day” in the City of Toronto.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day
September 9, 2023
WHEREAS Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) affects the brain and body of those who were exposed to alcohol in the womb. FASD is the leading cause of neurodevelopmental disability in Canada, affecting 4% of the population. The prevalence of FASD is greater than Autism, Down Syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy combined but it often goes undetected and it is difficult to diagnose.
Individuals with FASD can have physical, intellectual, behavioural, emotional, and learning difficulties. They typically require support at school, help finding and keeping employment, support in maintaining a residence, and help managing emotional and behavioral challenges.
This disorder affects people from all socio-economic, educational or ethnic backgrounds and individuals who can thrive when they have the proper supports in place to assist them.
The City of Toronto thanks organizations that are committed to raising awareness of conditions that impact our residents and supporting them as they live with chronic conditions.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim September 9, 2023 as “Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day” in the City of Toronto.
Living Donation Week
September 10-16, 2023
WHEREAS a living donation takes place when a person chooses to provide a donation of a living kidney or part of their liver to someone who is awaiting a liver or kidney transplant. In 2022, over 3000 Canadians were on wait-lists for transplants. Sadly, many on wait-lists passed while waiting to receive organ donations. Those who receive a living donation tend to spend less time on the organ donation list compared to those who receive a deceased donor’s organ.
Living donations are selfless, life changing gifts that not only reduce deaths but give kidney and liver recipients a new chance at living a healthy life.
During this week, we highlight the importance of organ donation,
celebrate the success of living donations and encourage more people to consider becoming living donors.
The City of Toronto thanks organizations that are committed to raising awareness of conditions that impact our residents and supporting them as they work towards better health.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Olivia Chow on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim September 10-16, 2023 as “Living Donation Week” in the City of Toronto.
Toronto Public Service Week
September 11–15, 2023
WHEREAS this week, we recognize and celebrate the professionalism, dedication and integrity of the nearly 40,000 members of the Toronto Public Service (TPS). They are proudly committed to serving Toronto’s 2.9 million residents, providing equitable and accessible services while upholding the Cit
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Former Toronto Mayor John Tory returned to the airwaves on Monday morning as a temporary host on NEWSTALK 1010’s Moore in the Morning.
“For me, it’s a big thing,” Tory said just after 5 a.m. “I’m apprehensive about it.”
It was a blunt contrast to his practiced podium-framed speeches – though, still sporting a blazer and button-up – as Tory voiced a vulnerable appeal to his early morning listeners.
“While I did it for five years and hundreds of shows, when you're away from something for nine years, you’re a little bit nervous.”
This was the first time Tory leaned into the microphone as a radio host since 2018, between his stints as leader of the Progressive Conservatives and mayor of Toronto.
Before taking on Toronto’s top job, he hosted the afternoon show on Newstalk 1010 for more than five years, after first stepping into radio as a teenager in charge of coffee runs for the newsroom.
‘I’M NOT THE MAYOR’
While Tory did not broach the elephant in the room – his resignation earlier this year after his extramarital relationship with a staffer was brought to light – his time spent as mayor periodically surfaced throughout the show.
“We weren’t going to get into your record as mayor,” NEWSTALK 1010 Assistant Program Director Robert Turner said, before launching into a joke about Tory’s failed commitment to bringing WrestleMania to Toronto.
“It was going to happen in the third term but it ended early,” Tory replied with a chuckle.
Then, almost an hour into the show, Tory introduced an NBC news correspondent who mistakenly greeted him as mayor.
“I’m not the mayor anymore but I’ll take it for a second,” he said before pivoting back to his line of question.
After a weekend of crime in the city – including, the eight suspects wanted in a North York stabbing – Tory returned to his stance on crime, often voiced during his time as mayor.
“I’m not in the business of trying to run for anything, stay in any office,” Tory said, defending himself before stating a sentiment he has often reiterated, “Toronto is still one of the safest big cities in the world.”
Just before Tory’s time clocked out at 9 a.m., he thanked the newsroom for helping him get through his return to talk radio.
“Thank you for listening and bye for now,” he signed off.
CTV News Toronto and NEWSTALK 1010 are both divisions of Bell Media.
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Former Toronto mayor John Tory ended his third term in disgrace in early 2023 following a high-profile cheating scandal, but the politician — now a radio host — is still regularly spotted enjoying life around the city.
blogTO caught up with the former mayor by chance in June at the hotly anticipated opening of Toronto's first Shake Shack location, and Tory dished on his favourite places to dine in the city.
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His favourite dining spots include Terroni, where the politician was famously spotted dining with mayoral hopeful (but disastrous election dud) Brad Bradford.
In addition to Terroni, Tory also mentioned he's a regular at Cibo Wine Bar and Barberian's Steakhouse.
And, on top of his favourite restos, Tory mentioned his favourite bakery is Thobors Boulangerie Patisserie Cafe on Mt. Pleasant near Eglinton, which he says serves up "the best croissants in the city."
Tory was less decisive when asked where he likes to get pizza in Toronto, saying, "I can't really answer that question." When pressed, he shouted out North of Brooklyn and other joints as part of the new wave of pizza in the city, while noting that to him, a pizza is more or less just a pizza.
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TORONTO — John Tory wants to be remembered for keeping the city of Toronto stable and moving forward, though the outgoing mayor acknowledged Friday that the scandal that led him to resign will mar his legacy.
In his final remarks as mayor, Tory said he wants to be known for building new lines of transit, getting housing built, keeping taxes affordable while investing in front-line services and demonstrating respect for all of Toronto's communities.
"It breaks my heart to leave. But leaving was the right thing to do, hard as it may be," he said.
Tory shocked the city of Toronto a week ago by announcing his resignation after admitting he had an "inappropriate relationship" with a former staffer.
Speaking at city hall on Friday, minutes before the clock ran out on his tenure, Tory thanked his council colleagues, staff and those in public service for their dedication, as well as the people of Toronto.
He said he will be focused on rebuilding trust with his family, but will also be looking for other ways to contribute to the city "in the days ahead."
"I leave knowing that our city's best days lie ahead," Tory said. "I leave with great hopes, high spirits, deep humility and ever deeper gratitude."
Tory handed over his mayoral powers to Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie, who he said has the intelligence, dedication and experience to step into the role.
Speaking after Tory, McKelvie said she is committed to fulfilling the duties and obligations of her new role and will continue the work Tory was doing.
"I will be making sure that we continue to deliver on the priorities on which Mayor Tory received a mandate from voters last October: keeping our city safe, getting housing built, getting transit built and making sure the nuts-and-bolts city services continue to be delivered in the best possible way," she said.
"Residents can rest assured that my entire focus at this time is ensuring a smooth transition and continued good governance," said McKelvie, who reiterated she will not run for mayor.
In a memo to city councillors Friday morning, Tory said to "ensure good governance" he was delegating to the city manager authority to hire most senior officials and amend the city's organizational structure.
Council will get the authority to hire deputy city managers and the city solicitor, as part of what Tory's office called a standard transition process.
His final day in office marked the end of a turbulent week at city hall.
Despite announcing his resignation last Friday, Tory's departure was dragged out for a week as he stayed on to see his budget approved by council.
Some of his allies at city hall, as well as Ontario Premier Doug Ford, wanted him to reverse course and see through his term and polling showed roughly half of residents wanted him to remain mayor.
Tory's undoing comes just months after he handily won a third-term election bid, promising steady leadership in uncertain times.
When Tory launched his first mayoral bid in 2014, he was seen as a stable leader after four years of scandal-plagued mayor Rob Ford. Tory then cruised to re-election in 2018.
He initially ran on a platform of change, a transit vision for the city and low taxes. Political analysts have said he kept the line on the city's budget and taxes, but at the expense of affordability, high housing costs and aging infrastructure.
He presided over the COVID-19 pandemic and tough financial straits at the city, but faced heavy criticism for his pro-police stance and often angered community workers and those experiencing homelessness.
Criticisms mounted in recent weeks over Tory's announcement of a proposed $48.3-million increase to the city's police budget. The boost would bring funding to just over $1.1 billion for 2023, a figure Tory's critics said was grossly inflated compared to other line items and underfunded social services.
While the affair and abrupt resignation will likely dominate his legacy and how people view him for a long time, his belated departure likely won't, said Zac Spicer, an associate professor at York University's public policy and administration department.
Unlike the late Rob Ford's "slow burn" departure, marked by denial of his crack cocaine usage and international attention, Tory ultimately made a clean break, Spicer said.
"Everything was very quick, the chapter is closed and the city is ready to move on," he said.
However, his resignation brings about a period of political uncertainty in Toronto.
Spicer said he doesn't expect McKelvie to take a very active role in some of the large issues facing the city Tory was tasked with managing, such as violence on transit, public encampments and lack of shelter spaces, and policing criticism.
"In an interim role, you really are tasked with just staying the course. The budget's approved, now the city kind of has its marching orders and the campaign is going to be the opportunity for Torontonians to think about the city they want moving forward," he said.
"I suspect the deputy mayor will be very much in caretaker mode."
It's unclear when the city will have a new mayor in place.
McKelvie said Friday the city clerk is prepared to bring a report to the next scheduled council meeting on March 29 that will allow councillors to formally declare the mayor's office vacant and pass a bylaw to initiate the byelection to elect a new mayor.
A nomination period would open the next day and last anywhere between 30 and 60 days, with the mayoral byelection held 45 days after that.
The byelection will have a totally different dynamic without Tory, considering his domination and lack of opposition for the seat, as well as the shorter campaign period, Spicer said.
"One of Tory's major successes was consolidating political power ... there was this sense of inevitability the last two elections," he said.
"Torontonians, I think for the first time in a couple elections, they've got a real choice and it's going to be interesting to see what sort of vision they actually go for."
The byelection will likely be competitive and feature many different visions for the city, including high-profile progressive candidates focused on issues like encampments, transit and policing, as well as a Tory flag-bearer discussing affordability, taxes and city management, said Spicer.
Josh Matlow, a progressive councillor and Tory critic, said Friday he is "very strongly considering" a run for mayor after Tory's departure, but has not yet made a decision.
"I have been frustrated by the direction that our city has been going (through) for many years, I know we can do so much better," Matlow said.
Gil Penalosa, mayoral runner-up in October's election, has said he will run again.
— With files from Jordan Omstead.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 17, 2023.
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This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Meta and Canadian Press News Fellowship.
Tyler Griffin and Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press
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Toronto elected a new mayor on Monday, with businessman and longtime civic activist John Tory replacing the controversial and scandal-plagued Mayor Rob Ford. Tory has promised a return to normal life for Canada's largest city.
Tory currently has 40 percent of the vote in the count, according to CBC News, followed by city councilman Doug Ford — Rob Ford's brother — with 34 percent; in third place is Olivia Chow, a major name in Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, with 23 percent. This surprisingly close results may yet widen for Tory, as the polls had tended to show him with a somewhat stronger lead over Doug Ford.
Rob Ford is not gone, though — he easily won election to his old seat on the city council. Ford dropped out of the mayoral race in September in order to deal with a health crisis that turned out to be a diagnosis of cancer. His brother Doug, who had held the seat on the city council, agreed to run for mayor in his place.
Still, this brings to a close Rob Ford's tumultuous four-year tenure as mayor. In the latter part of his term, Ford gained worldwide infamy for his drug abuse and a recent stay in rehab — plus a variety of other outlandish behavior such as knocking over a city councilwoman and a reported audio recording which he used a variety of racial and ethnic slurs.
Tory ran for mayor in 2003 as the main center-right candidate, losing that race to a left-leaning opponent. He later shifted to provincial politics as the leader of Ontario's Conservatives, representing the party's moderate wing. During this race Tory positioned himself a centrist candidate — contrasted with the Ford brothers as right-wing populists, and Chow on the left — winning the support of many people in both the Conservative and center-left Liberal camps, plus a large section of the business community.
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It’s official: Long-time Mayor of Toronto John Tory is resigning as of Friday at 5 p.m.
The long-time mayor of Toronto announced last Friday he would resign from his post after having an affair with a staffer.
Speaking to reporters late Friday evening, John Tory read prepared remarks where he admitted to the affair and subsequently announced his resignation.
Noting the relationship ended “by mutual consent” sometime in 2023, Tory says the employee found another job and left their position at City Hall.
Tory, who has been married to his wife Barb for over 40 years, says he is stepping down to be with his family — the same people he betrayed with his infidelity.
While Tory admitted to the affair in his remarks, he also made clear he wouldn’t be speaking further on the matter.
“I’m usually known for taking as many questions as you want,” Tory said, inaccurately. “But on this occasion, I’ll let my statement speak for itself.”
A lawyer and political strategist, the 69-year-old began his political career in 2003, losing to David Miller in the Toronto municipal election. Tory went on to become the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in 2004, where he remained until 2009.
Tory spent the better part of a decade as Mayor of Toronto after succeeding Rob Ford in 2014. At the time, Tory beat the soon-to-be Premier Doug Ford, as well as then-MP and wife of the late Jack Layton, Olivia Chow.
Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie is set to serve as interim mayor until a by-election is held later this year.
Tory’s resignation marks the second consecutive Toronto mayor who battled allegations of adultery, after Ford was accused of offering oral sex to a female staffer in November 2013.
At the time, Ford made headlines for his response, saying “I’ve got more than enough to eat at home,” referring to his “happy” marriage.
Tearing up Tory’s budget
In a tweet Friday night, Ontario NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam called for the Toronto city council to “tear up Tory’s budget.”
“It’s time to go way beyond plugging potholes and start permanently fixing Toronto’s structural problems,” said Wong-Tam, the official critic for the Attorney General and 2SLGBTQIA+ issues.
They also called for 24-hour warming centres to be opened immediately, and pushed for homelessness to be declared a humanitarian crisis.
“Tory could have used his veto powers to pass his budget this week,” Wong-Tam said. “There’s no reason why council should proceed now. Instead, they should ask staff to rework the budget to accurately reflect the real needs of Toronto.”
But Tory’s decision on when to formally resign allowed him to oversee the budget process on Wednesday, spoiling any opportunity to reform Toronto’s 2023 budget.
Tory was unphased by his glaring conflicts of interest, sitting on the Toronto Police Services Board while also serving as mayor.
Tory’s position on the police board wasn’t his only glaring conflict of interest. The mayor also sits on the Rogers Control Trust, a job that pays $100,000 annually. That’s on top of the earnings Tory has acquired as a Rogers shareholder.
The mayor’s affiliation with Rogers is likely to face renewed scrutiny as the Toronto Star reports the woman involved in the affair got a job at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) — a business Rogers Communications has a 37.5 per cent stake in.
Questions remain about the staffer’s departure from City Hall and whether Tory played a role, directly or indirectly, in securing her new job.
While the news of Tory’s prompt resignation made headlines across the country, the intrepid reporters who uncovered the scandal have gone largely uncredited.
The three journalists who broke the scoop are the Toronto Star’s David Rider, Ben Spurr and Alyshah Hasham.
Tory’s Toronto policing legacy
While Tory’s infidelity will make headlines for weeks, it’s important to remember the real story: the increase he gave Toronto Police on his way out.
In the last month alone, Tory recommended giving Toronto Police an extra $48 million in the next budget.
On Monday, the abolition advocacy group No Pride in Policing Coalition (NPIPC) issued a press release calling Tory’s resignation “good news.”
NPIPC urged municipal politicians to reject Tory’s proposed budget, and instead venture on an economic transformation that reflects the needs of poor, queer and trans, unhoused, Black, Indigenous, racialized, and all working-class people.
“He showed his unfitness for office long before the current scandal, through his attacks on unhoused people and his expansions of policing, among many other decisions. It’s well past time for him to go,” the NPIPC statement reads.
NPIPC called for city councillors to implement a 50 per cent reduction to the police budget, along with a plan for police abolition and real community safety.
That community safety component would see more funding for housing, libraries, parks, shelters, accessibility, seniors services and improvements to transit.
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We have the date for electing Toronto’s next mayor, now we need the right candidate qualified for what is a massive job. Being mayor of Toronto isn’t like heading up any other city council in Canada and it’s not likely most people know how big the job is and how much responsibility the mayor has.
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With 2.9 million residents, Toronto’s population is bigger than all four Atlantic provinces combined. It’s bigger than Saskatchewan and Manitoba combined. You can even add up the populations of Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton and Hamilton before you come to a population equal to Toronto’s.
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There is a mixture of experience and talents among the candidates, laid out below in alphabetical order.
Ana Bailao: Former councillor for Davenport, sat on executive committee and was appointed deputy mayor under John Tory. While on council, Bailao worked on housing issues, something she has continued to do since politics.
Brad Bradford: First elected to council in 2018 representing Beaches-East-York, Bradford was an urban planner working for the city before running for office. Re-elected in 2022, he was part of Tory’s budget committee.
Josh Colle: Prior to entering politics and serving on council from 2010 to 2018, former Eglington-Lawrence councillor Josh Colle had significant private sector experience including financial services and at the Toronto airport authority. At council he served as director of Toronto Hydro and Chair of the TTC. Since leaving politics has served as Senior Vice President overseeing infrastructure for EY Canada.
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Michael Coteau: Coteau served in the Ontario Legislature from 2011 to 2021 holding several cabinet positions under Premier Kathleen Wynne including immigration, tourism and community and social services. In 2021 he jumped to the federal level serving as Liberal MP for Don Valley East.
Anthony Furey: Former executive at Sun Media, serving as the National Comment Page Editor, Furey left the Sun last year to take up a position as VP of Editorial for TNC News, an online outlet. He’s a father to three young children and says he’s concerned about the direction of the city. Will position himself as a true political outsider who has never held office.
Mitzie Hunter: Currently the MPP for Scarborough-Guildwood, Hunter was first elected to Queen’s Park in 2013. She served as education minister under Kathleen Wynne for about 18 months starting in 2016. In the 2020 Ontario Liberal leadership election she finished fourth.
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Mike Layton: Before being elected in 2010, Layton worked as an environmental activist. He served on council from 2010 to 2022 stepping down when re-election seemed a forgone conclusion. Layton in the son of late federal politician and NDP leader Jack Layton.
Josh Matlow: A councillor since 2010, Matlow previously served as a Toronto District School Board trustee from 2003 to 2010. He is a proponent of defunding the police and an opponent of the Scarborough subway extension. Before politics, Matlow worked as a peace and environmental activist.
Gil Penalosa: Trained as an urban planner, Penalosa has advised cities and other levels of government around the world. He ran for mayor in October 2022, his first attempt at public office, on a platform strongly focused on housing and changing building and zoning codes. He is a proponent of the 8 80 cities concept.
Mark Saunders: Served 37 years with the Toronto Police Service including stints in the gang unit, homicide and drug squad before culminating in being chief from 2015-20. Since retiring, Saunders has served on Ontario’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force and as an advisor on the redevelopment of Ontario Place.
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John Tory handed over his mayoral powers at Toronto city hall on Friday, saying leaving the job breaks his heart but is the "right thing to do" given recent events. But he made no direct mention in his final statement of the reason for his decision to step down: an extramarital affair with a former staffer.
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John Tory handed over his mayoral powers at Toronto city hall on Friday, saying leaving the job breaks his heart but is the "right thing to do" given recent events.
Tory made no direct mention in his last public statement as mayor of the reason for his decision to step down: an extramarital affair with a former staffer. He took no questions from reporters after delivering his remarks.
In his statement, Tory thanked his staff, his colleagues, the city's public service and the people of Toronto, saying he tried to unite the city during his tenure.
"All I tried to do was to be a mayor whose energy and drive matched that of the city itself, a mayor who tried hard to ensure that every part, every community, every person was included in the success story that is Toronto."
The clock on Tory's mayoral tenure ran out at 5 p.m., one week after he shocked the city by announcing his resignation and admitting he had an "inappropriate relationship" with a former staffer. He announced he would resign shortly after details of the relationship were first published by the Toronto Star.
Tory's undoing comes just months after he handily won a third-term re-election bid, promising steady leadership in uncertain times. His resignation brings about a period of political uncertainty in Toronto, marshalling an indefinite stint of interim leadership and an eventual mayoral byelection.
His final statement as mayor came hours after a man threw multiple eggs at Tory's office window at city hall early Friday morning.
Deputy mayor asked Tory to consider leave of absence
Tory said when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the city, he continued to work hard, "by always being ready to serve." Doing so honoured essential workers in Toronto, including health-care workers, he said.
"That's what makes being Mayor of this city the best job anyone could have. And it's why it breaks my heart to leave. But leaving was the right thing to do, hard as it may be," he said.
Tory said he hoped to be remembered for doing the work of keeping the city stable. He said he also wants to be known for building new transit lines, getting housing built, keeping taxes affordable while investing in front-line services and demonstrating respect for all of Toronto's communities.
He added he will be focused on rebuilding trust with his family, but will also be looking for other ways to contribute to the city "in the days ahead."
Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie told reporters immediately after Tory's statement that she burst into tears on Friday evening, when he told her "that there was going to be a story, that it was true and that he would be resigning."
McKelvie was in Ottawa. She said she was emotional then and was emotional on Friday when he resigned.
She said she asked him if he would consider taking a leave of absence instead but he said "this is what he wanted to do for his family."
"I admire his sense of duty, I admire his sense of honour and I admire how he has taken full responsibility and how he has resigned," she said.
"I think he uses his heart and he looked at what was best for him and his family and what was best for the city of Toronto and I think that's admirable."
Deputy mayor says her focus is on 'good governance'
McKelvie thanked Tory for his years of service, wished him well and said she "fully respects" his request for privacy.
"He worked very long days, often seven days a week, because he loved this city and wanted to do a good job for all residents," she said.
McKelvie said she has spoken to the city clerk and a report on the impending byelection — "the largest byelection ever held in Canada" — will be delivered to city council at its next scheduled meeting on March 29.
The report will allow councillors to formally declare the mayor's office vacant and pass a bylaw to initiate the mayoral byelection.
A nomination period would open the next day and last anywhere between 30 and 60 days, with the vote to be held 45 days after that.
"I will be making sure that we continue to deliver on the priorities on which Mayor Tory received a mandate from voters last October: keeping our city safe, getting housing built, getting transit built and making sure the nuts-and-bolts city services continue to be delivered in the best possible way," McKelvie said.
"Residents can rest assured that my entire focus of this time is ensuring a smooth transition and continued good governance."
McKelvie assumed mayoral powers at 5 p.m. when Tory's resignation took effect. She said she won't be running to replace him. In his remarks, Tory had said she has the intelligence, dedication and experience to step into the role.
Tory calls public life 'a sacrifice' in memo
In a memo to councillors Friday morning, Tory thanked his colleagues and called public life "a sacrifice."
"Public life is a sacrifice for anyone and one you have made to contribute to a better future for our city," he wrote.
"As for me, you can be sure I will be an engaged, contributing citizen trying to ensure, as you are, a bright future for our great city," he said in the memo.
In the memo, Tory said to "ensure good governance," he was delegating to the city manager authority to hire most senior officials and amend the city's organizational structure.
Council will have the authority to hire deputy city managers and the city solicitor, as part of what Tory's office is calling a standard transition process.
Despite announcing his resignation last Friday, Tory stayed on to see his budget approved by council this week.
In the memo, he called the budget, "a reasonably good example of working together in challenging circumstances."
Toronto's next council meeting will see the city clerk bring a report that allows councillors to formally declare the mayor's office vacant and to pass a bylaw to initiate a byelection.
A nomination period would open the next day and last anywhere between 30 and 60 days, with the mayoral byelection held 45 days after that.
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John Tory is resigning as mayor of Toronto after a Toronto Star report revealed that the third-term politician had a months-long relationship with a former member of his staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multiple news outlets claim that the 68-year-old submitted his resignation letter to the city clerk on Feb. 15. Tory is set to step down at 5 p.m. on Feb. 17.
WATCH: Employment lawyer Jon Pinkus spoke to CTV News about Tory’s resignation and the possible repercussions of workplace relationships.
The formal resignation comes a few days after Tory held a news conference to address the situation.
On Feb. 10, the outgoing mayor told reporters:
“I did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man.”
“I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgement on my part.”
“While I deeply regret having to step away from a job that I love, in a city that I love even more… it is best to commit myself to the work that is required to repair these most important relationships.”
Tory has asked the City of Toronto’s integrity commissioner to look into the relationship.
He added that he will work with various members of the City’s administration, including the city manager, city clerk and deputy mayor, to ensure an organized transition.
SEE ALSO
• Toronto Star interview: Experts weigh in on office relationships
• 640 Toronto: Lior Samfiru talks Tory’s resignation and dating at work
Is it illegal to have a romantic relationship with my boss?
News that Tory engaged in an allegedly consensual relationship with a staffer has raised questions about whether it’s legal for a boss to have a romantic relationship with their employees.
There are no laws in Ontario (or Canada) that prevent consensual workplace romance between a boss and an employee.
It’s legal for consenting co-workers to date or engage in intimate relations with one another.
While political settings are a workplace like any other, there could be even more emphasis placed on the importance of maintaining a balance of power among all staff.
While there are no laws in the country prohibiting relationships between employees, it’s generally not a good idea for a superior to date a subordinate that they have power over.
The fact that there is a power imbalance between a boss and an employee means that it’s unlikely that a relationship can be completely voluntary.
WATCH: Employment Lawyer Alex Lucifero spoke to CTV News about Ottawa city council’s policy on workplace relationships.
Can companies ban workplace relationships?
The short answer is yes. Employers can choose to ban staff from forming romantic relationships with co-workers in an effort to protect themselves from legal liabilities.
However, this approach is considered outdated and potentially harmful to the company for two reasons:
The business may lose talented employees who are forced to choose between their job and their workplace relationship
Employees may not report non-consensual relationships out of fear that they could lose their job
Instead of banning office dating, a better solution for employers is to implement workplace dating policies that address intimate relationships between superiors and subordinates — or those that could cause conflicts of interest.
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Is there a policy about relationships between the mayor and staff?
Toronto city council’s Code of Conduct doesn’t speak to romantic relationships between members of council — including the mayor — and their staff.
The Code claims that “members should perform their duties and arrange their private affairs in a manner that promotes public confidence and bears close public scrutiny.”
In general, a company’s dating policy can:
Include rules about workplace relationships (i.e. what constitutes “inappropriate” behaviour, such as no public displays of affections or favouritism)
Require employees to report workplace relationships to HR with written confirmation that it’s consensual
Explain how the policy will be enforced if it’s breached, including disciplinary action and dismissal (which should only be reserved for very serious circumstances)
Dating policies don’t have to apply to employees only. They can also cover contractors, vendors, and suppliers to prevent potential conflicts of interest.
While companies in Canada aren’t required to have a policy on office relationships, they are legally obligated to make sure that the workplace is free of discrimination and harassment.
Human rights legislation at the federal and provincial level does cover a variety of situations, including unwanted sexual advances by someone in a position of power towards a subordinate.
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TORONTO — Questions remain about what lies ahead for Toronto following the abrupt resignation of mayor John Tory on Friday night.
The two-term mayor, who had just been re-elected to a third stint in office in October, stepped down over what he described as an inappropriate relationship with a former member of his office staff.
Tory offered few details about the affair during a hastily called Friday night news conference, only saying it had developed during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended by mutual consent earlier this year.
The unnamed employee is now working at another job.
Tory says he’s working with senior city staff and Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie to ensure a smooth transition, but has not formally named his interim successor.
Provincial legislation states a byelection will need to take place within 60 days of the mayor’s office officially becoming vacant to name a permanent replacement.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford thanked Tory, whom he called a friend, for his years of public service including his time in the city’s top job.
“John will be remembered as a dedicated and hard-working mayor who served as a steady leader during the most difficult days of the pandemic,” Ford said in a statement Saturday morning.
“He united Toronto behind an optimistic vision for the future and I will miss working with him to see it come to life. I wish nothing but the best for my friend in the days, weeks and months ahead.”
Tory told reporters late Friday he notified the Office of the Integrity Commissioner of the relationship and asked him to review it, saying he believes it is important to avoid tarnishing the mayoral office or putting City Hall through a prolonged period of controversy over what he describes as an error in judgment on his part.
Tory served two scandal-free terms as mayor of Toronto and had just been re-elected for a third in October.
He thanked the people of Toronto for trusting him as mayor, a position he called “the job of a lifetime.”
“I believe I did some good for the city I truly love, particularly during the pandemic,” he said.
He said the relationship with the employee developed while he was spending long periods of time away from his wife Barbara, to whom he has been married for over 40 years.
“I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part,” Tory said at city hall, where he apologized “unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all those hurt by my actions including my staff, my colleagues and the public service.”
He said he was stepping down as mayor in order to reflect on his mistakes and focus on rebuilding trust with his family.
He asked for privacy for all affected by his actions, including his wife, family and himself.
Tory, 68, was first elected mayor in 2014, partially on a promise to restore respectability to the office following the scandal-plagued tenure of his predecessor Rob Ford.
He secured a second mandate in 2018 and cruised to a third term in October after a campaign that saw him tout his years of experience as head of Canada’s most populous city.
He secured about 62 per cent of the vote compared to 18 per cent for progressive urbanist Gil Penalosa, who came second. Tory beat out 30 mostly unknown candidates after many criticized his record on transit and housing _ two issues he had highlighted as priorities.
In a tweet late Friday night, Penalosa said “now Torontonians have a chance to elect better.”
Tory’s most recent election win came as he faced criticism about the state of Toronto under his leadership. His opponents noted the high cost of housing, aging infrastructure, overflowing garbage bins and shuttered parks.
His leadership saw increased scrutiny in recent weeks over his announcement of a proposed $48.3-million increase to the city’s police budget, which would bring police funding to just over $1.1 billion for 2023 _ a figure Tory’s critics said was grossly inflated compared to other line items and underfunded social services.
Tory also saw criticism for his handling of the city’s housing crisis, as thousands of people are experiencing homelessness and Toronto’s shelter capacity is stretched to its limits.
Just this week, Toronto city council scrapped a recommendation to keep its warming centres open around the clock until mid-April after a bout of extreme cold, as well as to declare a public health crisis over lack of shelter space. With support from Tory, council voted instead to call for more federal support and have staff study the idea further.
Kristyn Wong-Tam, a former Toronto city councillor who often disagreed with Tory’s positions and current member of the Ontario legislature, issued a tweet calling Tory’s affair with a staffer “not a simple, one-time lapse of judgment,” but “an abuse of power.”
Toronto city council is set to debate Tory’s proposed budget at a Wednesday meeting. It will be the first under new so-called strong mayor powers granted to Toronto by the province, which Tory had said he would use in a limited and responsible way.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 11, 2023.
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I remember reading the headline like it was yesterday: “John Tory to step down as mayor after admitting to relationship with former staffer.” As a frequent follower of local politics, I was stunned on February 10 when this report hit the newswire. Tory’s time as mayor of Toronto had largely been devoid of drama, especially relative to Toronto’s Rob Ford era. In fact, Tory had recently begun his third term as mayor, while still enjoying the support of most Torontonians.
Looking into the details of the affair, the public now knows that Tory, 68, had a relationship during the pandemic with a 31-year-old advisor while married to his wife of over 44 years, Barbara Hackett. While the age gap and the adultery are themselves notable, the fact that Tory was the woman’s superior raised many ethical questions surrounding potential abuse of power. By the time the affair became public knowledge, the woman in question was no longer employed at City Hall.
As mayor of Toronto, Tory certainly did well appealing to the masses, learning from his previous missteps and election losses as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He supported traditionally progressive causes, such as affordable childcare, expansion of public transit, cycling infrastructure, and public housing, while also appealing to conservative voters with his low property taxes, willingness to outsource city services, and desire to limit bureaucracy in government processes. While Tory came across as centrist with his platforms and policies, he was often characterized in the press as a “moderate conservative.”
This raises the question: how did Canada’s largest city end up with not only a conservative mayor but a popular conservative mayor? In political circles, cities are often characterized as liberal strongholds; with a combination of young voters, lower-income voters, and more obvious inequality, dense cities usually favour liberal agendas and politicians.
Toronto’s swing towards conservatism began in the late 1990s during the premiership of Progressive Conservative leader Mike Harris. In 1998, despite overwhelming opposition to his plan, Mike Harris pushed through the amalgamation of Toronto and “The 6ix” was born. The so-called “Megacity” plan combined Toronto, Etobicoke, Scarborough, York, East York, and North York into one new city; what we now think of as Toronto. These six separate cities became one, and politics in Toronto would never be the same.
Etobicoke, Scarborough, York, East York, and North York are fundamentally different from what is now known as “Old Toronto.” While “Old Toronto” (the downtown core) is densely populated, has higher public transit provision, and is home to more young people, the remaining five boroughs are more suburban, spread out, and home to more families. The fact is that Mike Harris’s amalgamation effectively amounted to gerrymandering; by combining the liberal downtown with hundreds of square kilometers of the surrounding largely conservative suburbia, Canada’s most important city shifted politically to the right. Amalgamation is even to blame for Rob Ford; results from his election in 2010 showed that voter preferences were almost perfectly divided along borough lines, with the suburbs supporting Ford, while downtown strongly preferred his main rival George Smitherman.
Currently, the outsized influence of conservative politics is evident in how John Tory was able to pass his 2023 city budget. The budget includes, among other things, an increase to the Toronto Police budget, cuts to transit service, and $2 billion for repairs to the aging Gardiner Expressway, a decrepit eyesore mostly used by suburbanites, not downtown residents. The real kicker? The budget was passed after Tory admitted to his affair and promised to resign. Based on this awkward timing, my initial suspicion when this story broke was that Tory had no intention of making this affair public, but rather someone was onto him, and he decided to get out in front of it. Turns out I was right; the Toronto Star was tipped off all the way back in December that Tory’s marriage was potentially in trouble.
In any event, what’s done is done. Toronto’s political past may be fraught with scandal and manipulation, but its future remains wide open. The by-election to replace Tory has been set for June 26th, and true to form, the provincial government is already meddling, with premier Doug Ford saying “If a left-wing mayor gets in there, we’re toast. I’ll tell you, it’d be a disaster”. As a city, we can’t keep letting our fate be decided for us, and that’s why this by-election is so important. There are already a few likely candidates, and I encourage you to research their platforms to find the one that speaks most to you. As young residents of Toronto, we’re the ones who get to decide how our city will continue to change, evolve, and thrive. It all starts with one simple act: voting.
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On February 10, 2023, shortly after commencing a third term as mayor of Toronto, John Tory admitted to an affair with a former staff member during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result of his actions, Tory announced that he will be resigning from his position as Toronto’s mayor. He submitted his formal resignation to Toronto City Clerk, John D. Elvidge, on February 17, 2023, at 5 p.m.—thus ending his time as Toronto’s mayor.
“During the pandemic I developed a relationship with an employee in my office in a way that did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man,” stated Tory. He further explained that the workplace relationship ended mutually earlier this year, and the employee obtained a job outside of Toronto City Hall.
Tory called this extramarital affair “a serious error in judgement on [his] part.” He announced his resignation from his position as mayor so that he “can take the time to reflect on [his] mistakes,” and work to regain his family’s trust.
During his statement, he apologized not only to the people of Toronto, but to the parties negatively impacted by his actions, including his staff and colleagues, and especially his wife and family, “who [he has] let down, more than anyone else.”
“I have nonetheless been deeply honored by the opportunity to serve the people of this wonderful city,” said Tory, explaining that he “[made] a positive difference for the city that [he] truly love[s], particularly during the pandemic.”
So, what happens after Mayor Tory’s resignation? During an interview with The Medium, Professor Randy Besco from the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Department of Political Science shares his views on the sudden resignation of Mayor Tory.
Professor Besco believes that Tory’s affair was “clearly an abuse of power,” considering that the former staff member was Tory’s subordinate. He emphasizes that any sexual relationship with a subordinate in the workplace is unacceptable.
“I was surprised honestly that he resigned,” remarks Professor Besco, because “a lot of politicians [in Tory’s position] would have tried to stay [in power.]” Professor Besco finds that a senior politician in Canada resigning due to an affair is almost unheard of, calling the situation “very unusual.” However, he believes that Tory’s resignation was the honourable and responsible thing to do after his disclosure of the workplace affair.
“When the mayor resigns, the deputy mayor becomes the mayor temporarily,” explains Professor Besco. “The city council has between thirty and sixty days to call the election,” meaning that the time of the next election will be decided within this period.
Therefore, after Tory’s formal resignation, Professor Besco suspects that “the deputy mayor, Jennifer McKelvie, will become the mayor” and “will not make a lot of policy changes.” It should be noted that McKelvie herself will not be running for mayor in the new elections.
Regarding the public opinion of Tory after his affair and resignation, Professor Besco postulates that “the public view of him right now is not too bad in part because he resigned.” He elaborates that people believe Tory made a responsible decision by stepping down.
However, Professor Besco believes that effects on the long-term public opinion of the Toronto government are not as clear, and depend on factors such as the election process and who wins.
According to Professor Besco, Tory’s resignation could have large ramifications on the political sphere in Toronto because “[the provincial government] gave the mayor a lot of new powers.” The provincial government did this with the hope that they would have an ally in the mayor’s office. Professor Besco notes that if someone wins the election who has very different views and policies or does not get along with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, then “[the political landscape] could change a lot in terms of relationships with the provincial government, and especially with the federal government.”
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John Howard Tory OOnt KC (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian broadcaster, businessman, and former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007 while he was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2004 to 2009.
After a career as a lawyer, political strategist and businessman, Tory ran as a mayoral candidate in the 2003 Toronto municipal election and lost to David Miller. Tory was subsequently elected as Ontario PC leader from 2004 to 2009, and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey and serving as the leader of the Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007. After his resignation as PC leader in 2009, Tory became a radio talk show host on CFRB. Despite widespread speculation, Tory did not run for mayor again in 2010. He was also the volunteer chair of the non-profit group CivicAction from 2010 to 2014.
On October 27, 2014, Tory was elected mayor of Toronto, defeating incumbent mayor Rob Ford's brother, councillor Doug Ford and former councillor and member of Parliament (MP) Olivia Chow. On October 22, 2018, he was re-elected mayor of Toronto in the 2018 mayoral election, defeating former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat. He was elected to a third term as mayor on October 24, 2022, after defeating urbanist Gil Penalosa. Tory formally left office on February 17. He was succeeded by Olivia Chow as mayor of Toronto.
Early life and education
John Howard Tory, the eldest of four, was born on May 28, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario, to Elizabeth (née Bacon) and John A. Tory, president of Thomson Investments Limited and a director of Rogers Communications. His grandfather was lawyer John S. D. Tory and his great-grandfather founded Sun Life of Canada.
He attended the University of Toronto Schools, at the time a publicly-funded high school affiliated with the University of Toronto. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1975. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1978 from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. He was called to the bar in Ontario in 1980.
Business and early political career
From 1972 to 1979, Tory was hired by family friend Ted Rogers as a journalist for Rogers Broadcasting's Toronto radio stations CFTR and CHFI. From 1980 to 1981, and later from 1986 to 1995, Tory held various positions at Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington including partner, managing partner, and member of the Executive Committee.
From 1981 to 1985, Tory served in the office of the premier of Ontario, Bill Davis, as principal secretary to the premier and associate secretary of the cabinet. After Davis retired as premier in 1985, Tory joined the office of the Canadian Special Envoy on Acid Rain, as special advisor. The special envoy had been appointed by the Mulroney government to review matters of air quality with a United States counterpart. Tory supported Dianne Cunningham's bid to lead the Ontario PCs in 1990.
Tory later served as tour director and campaign chairman to then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and managed the 1993 federal election campaign of Mulroney's successor, Kim Campbell. In his role as the Progressive Conservative campaign co-manager that year, he authorized two infamous campaign ads that ridiculed Liberal candidate Jean Chretien's face, which is partially paralyzed due to a childhood disease. The ads were greeted with much outcry among the Canadian public. They were withdrawn ten days after their first airings, and the Progressive Conservatives would proceed to be decimated in the federal election.
From 1995 to 1999, he returned to Rogers Communications, but this time as president and CEO of Rogers Media which had become one of Canada's largest publishing and broadcasting companies. Rogers has interests in radio and television stations, internet, specialty television channels, consumer magazines, trade magazines and, at the time, the Toronto Sun and the Sun newspaper chain.
In 1999, he became president and CEO of Rogers subsidiary Rogers Cable, which he led through a period of transition from a monopoly environment to an open marketplace, overseeing a significant increase in operating income. Tory stepped down after Ted Rogers announced that he would stay on as president and CEO of parent company Rogers Communications. He served as the ninth commissioner of the Canadian Football League from 1996 to 2000.
Tory continued to have an interest in being a broadcaster throughout his life and, as a Rogers executive, hosted a public affairs program on Rogers Cable's community access channel for many years. He sat as a board member of Metro Inc., the Quebec-based parent corporation for Metro and Food Basics grocery stores.
First campaign for mayor (2003)
After six years as a key backer of retiring Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman, Tory ran in the November 2003 election for mayor of Toronto. He finished in second place, behind councillor David Miller and ahead of former mayor Barbara Hall, former councillor and MP John Nunziata, and former councillor and budget chief Tom Jakobek.
Tory and Miller both entered the race with limited name recognition and support, but each quickly claimed a core base—Miller among progressives and Tory among more conservative voters. Meanwhile, Hall's initially commanding lead slowly dissipated over the course of the campaign, and the campaigns of both Nunziata and Jakobek were sidelined by controversies.
Tory also accepted an endorsement from the Toronto Police Association. He held the traditional suburban conservative vote that had helped to elect Mel Lastman in the 1997 mayor's campaign, but lost the overall vote to Miller in a close race. After the election, Tory helped Miller and Hall raise funds to repay their campaign debts.
Leader of the Ontario PC Party
For more details, see 2004 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election
In March 2004, Tory hinted that he would be seeking the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives, after Ernie Eves announced his intention to resign from that post. The provincial PC leadership election was announced for September 18, 2004, and Tory made his candidacy official on May 6, 2004. John Laschinger was appointed to be Tory's campaign manager. Tory won the support of former provincial cabinet ministers Elizabeth Witmer, David Tsubouchi, Jim Wilson, Janet Ecker, Chris Hodgson, Cam Jackson, Phil Gillies and Bob Runciman as well as backbench members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) Norm Miller, Laurie Scott, Ted Arnott and John O'Toole.
Tory's opponents for the leadership post were former provincial minister of finance Jim Flaherty and Oak Ridges MPP Frank Klees. Tory defeated Flaherty with 54 per cent on the second ballot. When Flaherty later left provincial politics to seek a seat in the House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, Tory endorsed his former rival in the 2006 election; Flaherty was elected and was appointed the federal minister of finance. Tory also campaigned prominently with Flaherty's wife Christine Elliott in the provincial by-election held March 30, enabling her to win the seat formerly held by her husband.
Tory told the media in November 2004 that he would seek election to the legislature in time for the spring 2005 legislative session.
On January 31, 2005, after much public speculation and some delay, Ernie Eves resigned his seat and cleared the way for Tory to run in Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey, the safest PC seat in the province. As a "parachute candidate", Tory faced some criticism about his commitment to the riding. Nevertheless, he easily won the March 17, 2005 by-election with 56 per cent of the vote. Former premier Bill Davis appeared for Tory's first session in the legislature as PC leader.
2007 Ontario general election
See also: 2007 Ontario general election
In the 2007 general election, Tory ran in the Toronto riding of Don Valley West, the area where he grew up, raised his family and lived most of his life.
Tory released his platform on June 9, 2007. The platform, A Plan for a Better Ontario, commits a PC government to eliminate the health care tax introduced by the previous government, put scrubbers on coal-fired power plants, address Ontario's doctor shortage, allow new private health care partnerships provided services are paid by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), impose more penalties on illegal land occupations in response to the Caledonia land dispute, fast-track the building of nuclear power plants, and invest the gas tax in public transit and roads. A costing of the platform released in August estimated that the PC promises would cost an additional $14 billion over four years.
The PC campaign was formally launched on September 3. Most of the campaign was dominated by discussion of his plan to extend public funding to Ontario's faith-based separate schools, during which Tory supported allowing the teaching of creationism in religious studies classes. Earlier in the year, indications were that the party would have been a strong contender to win the election, but the school funding promise resulted in the Liberals regaining the lead in popular support for the duration of the campaign. Later in the campaign, in the face of heavy opposition, Tory promised a free vote on the issue.
With the beginning of the official campaign period on September 10, the PC campaign made clear its intention to make the previous government's record a key issue. In particular, Tory focused on the Liberals' 2003 election and 2004 pre-budget promise not to raise taxes and their subsequent imposition of a health care tax.
On election night, the PCs made minor gains and remained the Official Opposition while Dalton McGuinty's Liberals were re-elected with a majority. Tory was defeated in Don Valley West by the incumbent Ontario Liberal MPP, Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne. Although Tory was defeated in both his riding of Don Valley West and the race for the premiership, he said that he would stay on as leader unless the party wanted him to resign.
Leading from outside the legislature
As a result of the election loss, the party decided to hold a leadership review vote at its 2008 general party meeting in London. Tory received 66.9 percent support, lower than internal tracking which showed him in the more comfortable 70 percent range. Three hours after the leadership review vote, Tory announced to the delegates that he would be staying on as leader. He came under heavy criticism from several party members following this delay, with his opponents signalling that they would continue to call for an end to what they called his 'weak' leadership. Other party members supported Tory, saying that his opponents should accept the results and move on.
Throughout 2008, Tory's leadership of the party was perceived to be tenuous, as he faced widespread criticism for his seeming failure to convince a sitting MPP to resign in order to open a seat for him. Most notably, Bill Murdoch called for Tory to resign as party leader in September, resulting in his suspension from the party caucus on September 12. Six days later, Murdoch was permanently expelled from the party caucus. In December 2008, media pundits speculated that Prime Minister Stephen Harper would appoint PC MPP Bob Runciman to the Senate in order to clear the way for Tory to run in Runciman's comfortably safe riding of Leeds—Grenville. However, Harper did not do so.
On January 9, 2009, PC MPP Laurie Scott announced her resignation from the legislature, allowing Tory to run in the resulting by-election in Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, a normally safe PC riding in central Ontario. In exchange for agreeing to resign, Scott was given the post of chair of the party's election preparedness committee until the 2011 election, and $100,000 in severance pay. On March 5, 2009, he lost the by-election to Liberal candidate Rick Johnson. Tory announced his resignation from the party leadership the next day and was succeeded by Bob Runciman as interim leader; Runciman had served twice as leader of the opposition during the two times Tory did not have a seat in the legislature. Niagara West—Glanbrook MPP Tim Hudak won the 2009 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership election to become party leader and opposition leader.
Return to broadcasting
Several weeks following the end of his provincial political career, Tory announced he was returning to broadcasting, to host a Sunday evening phone-in show on Toronto talk radio station CFRB. The John Tory Show simulcast on CHAM in Hamilton and CKTB in St. Catharines. He was also looking for opportunities in business, law or the non-profit sector.
In the fall of 2009, CFRB moved Tory to its Monday to Friday afternoon slot, for a new show, Live Drive, airing from 4pm to 7pm. The show first broadcast on October 5, 2009.
Tory was considering challenging incumbent Toronto Mayor David Miller in the 2010 municipal election as was Ontario Deputy Premier George Smitherman. On September 25, 2009, Miller announced he was not running for re-election. Tory announced on January 7 that he was not running in order to continue his radio show and also become head of the Toronto City Summit Alliance. On August 5, 2010, after a week of press speculation that he was about to re-enter the race, Tory confirmed that he would not be running in 2010 for mayor of Toronto.
Tory's last broadcast was February 21, 2014, after which he declared his candidacy for mayor.
Mayor of Toronto (2014–2023)
Elections
Tory registered as a candidate for the 2014 Toronto mayoral election on February 24, 2014. In his launch video he stated that building a Yonge Street relief line was "job one" if elected mayor. On May 27, he announced his Toronto relief plan, entitled SmartTrack, providing electric commuter rail along existing GO train infrastructure with service from Unionville to Pearson Airport. SmartTrack construction has still not begun as well as having seen several changes. On October 27, 2014, Tory was elected as mayor of Toronto.
Tory became mayor of Toronto on December 1, 2014. He spent his first day meeting with Premier Kathleen Wynne, emphasizing the importance of working with other levels of government. He also announced that Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong would be his deputy mayor. Minnan-Wong remained in the position for two terms, but did not seek re-election in 2022, and Tory selected Councillor Jennifer McKelvie as deputy mayor for his third term.
On May 1, 2018, Tory registered his candidacy for re-election.
Tory retained a high approval rating at 58%, with only 24% disapproving, and 18% undecided. He was a front runner in the polls for the mayoral election at 65–70% support.
Tory was re-elected mayor of Toronto on October 22, 2018, defeating former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat with 63.49% of the vote.
Tory was re-elected to a third term in 2022, defeating urbanist Gil Penalosa.
Community safety and policing
Tory has sat on the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) since his election as mayor in 2014. The TPSB oversees the Toronto Police Service (TPS) by hiring the chief of police, setting policies, and approving the annual police budget.
Soon after the 2014 election, the TPSB quashed rules governing the use of the community contacts policy ("carding"), a controversial practice allowing police to randomly and routinely stop and demand identification and personal information from any individual deemed suspicious. The information collected is kept on record for an unspecified period and is easily accessible by police officers. Opponents allege it disproportionately targets Black people. The previous rules, brought in by former police chief Bill Blair, had required police to inform stopped individuals of their rights and to keep a record of each stop. Blair had also suspended the practice pending new rules.
Despite public demand to completely end carding, Tory initially defended the policy in general, stating it should be reformed, but not stopped. The practice was defended by the police union, which maintained that it was a "proven, pro-active police investigative strategy that reduces, prevents and solves crime". On June 7, 2015, Tory called for an end to the policy, describing it as "illegitimate, disrespectful and hurtful" and stating it had "eroded the public trust". In the TPSB meeting on June 18, Tory introduced a motion to end carding, however, the motion was subsequently amended to return to an initial 2014 version of the policy, which required officers to notify those they stop that the contact is voluntary and issue a physical receipt following the interaction. Carding was effectively ended province-wide in 2017 when the provincial community safety minister, Yasir Naqvi, issued a regulation banning police from collecting data arbitrarily.
Police reform
On June 25, 2020, in response to calls for police reform, councillors Josh Matlow and Kristyn Wong-Tam introduced a motion to cut the Toronto police budget by $122 million, or 10 per cent, and reallocate funds to community programming. Tory, along with a majority of council, rejected the proposal, instead passing a series of motions supported by Tory which did not include immediate defunding of the police. Among the motions included the creation of a non-police crisis response pilot program and a $5 million funding increase to allow for front-line officers to be equipped with body cameras. Tory claimed that a reduction in budget was likely if the program was successful.
During his term of office, he insisted on strengthening the resources of the police, the municipality's main financial asset. The priority given to the police was at the expense of social services and housing, whose budgets were reduced.
Toronto Community Crisis Service
At its meeting on June 25, 2020, Toronto City Council considered a series of motions aimed at reforming policing and crisis response in the city. Tory tabled a motion to "detask" the police. The city would explore how duties currently assigned to sworn officers would be assumed by "alternative models of community safety response" to incidents where neither violence nor weapons are at issue. The proposal would "commit that its first funding priority for future budgets [be] centered [sic] on a robust system of social supports and services" and make an itemized line-by-line breakdown of the police budget public; a reduction in the police budget would likely ensue, according to the motion. Tory's motion passed unanimously on June 29.
On January 26, 2022, the Executive Committee approved a staff report outlining an implementation plan for the pilot program. It was subsequently adopted by city council on February 2. According to Tory, "the pilots will allow the city to test and to evaluate and to revise this model before we implement it on a larger scale but make no mistake it is our intention to implement it on a larger scale and to have it city-wide by 2025 at the latest".
In March 2022, the city launched the Toronto Community Crisis Service pilot program.
TTC safety
In 2022 and 2023, Toronto saw a series of violent incidents on the transit system, which saw employees and passengers seriously injured or killed in seemingly random attacks. Union leaders and passenger advocacy groups demanded action from the city, calling for increased mental health programs, social services and security. On January 26, 2023, Tory, along with police chief Myron Demkiw and TTC CEO Rick Leary announced that the city would deploy 80 additional police officers to patrol the transit system, using off-duty officers in an overtime capacity. Additionally, the TTC announced it would deploy 20 workers to provide outreach services to the homeless population on the TTC, and 50 security guards.
Transportation
SmartTrack
Main article: SmartTrack
As part of his campaign in 2014, Tory proposed utilizing existing GO Transit rail corridors to construct an above ground relief line, building on the existing GO Regional Express Rail expansion plan. The proposal would see the service operate 22 "surface subway" stations alongside GO trains from Mississauga's Airport Corporate Centre south through Etobicoke towards Union Station, then north towards Markham. Tory initially said that the proposal would cost $8 billion, with the city covering $2.5 billion, funded through tax increment financing, and that SmartTrack would be completed in seven years.
After his election, as city and Metrolinx staff began studying his proposal, SmartTrack plans began to change, with stations changing, and questions raised surrounding the costs and integration. An updated plan saw the western portion being dropped in favour of extending the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. As other transit projects emerged, such as the Ontario Line, stations were dropped which would be serviced by new proposals.
The plan currently in place sees the construction of five new transit stations being completed in 2026, at a cost of $1.463 billion to the city.
Scarborough Subway extension
Tory supports a one-stop extension of Toronto subway Line 2 to serve a proposed transit hub at the Scarborough Town Centre as opposed to the three-stop Scarborough previously approved and fully funded under Ford. The LRT alternative failed in council in 2016. The Scarborough Subway Extension has completed the planning stage and as of 2016 was in the detailed design stage, with an estimated operation date of 2023.
Gardiner Expressway
In 2016, council faced a decision on the future of the elevated portion of the Gardiner Expressway east of Jarvis Street, as the aging structure would require significant renovations it was to remain in service beyond 2020. Citing his election promise to improve traffic, Tory supported a hybrid option, which would see roughly $1 billion spent to reconstruct the structure with on and off ramps reconfigured. The alternative proposal would have seen the expressway torn down at a cost of $461 million. On this issue, three members of his executive committee opposed him. Other politicians, including former mayor David Crombie and former chief city planner and 2018 Toronto mayoral candidate Jennifer Keesmaat opposed the renovation of the Gardiner Expressway, and prefer to tear it down instead.
Road tolls
During the 2003 election, Tory initially positioned himself against road tolls. As mayor, Tory's position softened in 2016 when the city considered how it could raise revenue to fund transit projects. In November 2016, Tory's announced that he would support tolls on the two municipally-owned expressways, the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway, which would have raised roughly $200 million annually. The proposal passed city council, however, as the municipal government is a creation of the provincial legislature, the city would need approval from the province to implement tolls, as the City of Toronto Act, which lays out the city's legal powers did not allow for road tolls.
The provincial government ultimately rejected the idea in January 2017, with Premier Wynne stating that her government could not endorse road tolls on the Gardiner and Don Valley Parkway until better transit alternatives were in place for commuters outside of the city to enter downtown. Wynne instead committed to increasing the municipal share of the gas tax, which would give the city $170 million annually by 2022. While Tory was thankful for the increased gas tax share, he harshly criticized the province for denying the city a long-term option.
During the 2022 municipal election, Tory once again floated the idea of introducing road tolls. The provincial government under Premier Doug Ford once again rejected the idea.
Housing
In 2014, Tory selected Councillor Ana Bailão to be the chair of the affordable housing committee.
Modular housing
In September 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the city launched a housing response plan which would see 1000 units of modular housing contracted. The initiative identifies city owned sites to place the units and is part of the city's housing strategy.
Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation
In 2021, the city launched a senior-focused social housing provider known as the Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation. It provides housing to 15,000 low and moderate income seniors in 83 Toronto Community Housing Corporation buildings, and employs staff from Toronto Community Housing's former seniors unit.
ModernTO
Initially launched in 2019 to optimize the city's office space, the ModernTO initiative was adopted by Toronto City Council in April 2022 and seeks to redevelop a number of city-owned properties as affordable housing. The initiative sees the city reduce its office footprint from 55 to 15 locations by creating office hubs in central buildings such as City Hall, the civic centres and Metro Hall. Eight buildings will be repurposed into affordable housing, creating 500 to 600 units.
2023 housing action plan
Following the 2022 election, Tory introduced a suite of proposals in city council which would overhaul the city's housing strategy. The proposals include ending exclusionary zoning, which would update by-laws to legalize laneway suites and garden suites, as well as exempting developments of four units or less from development charges. It includes incentivizing construction of rental housing by reducing fees and charges, the creation of a new Development and Growth Division, which aims at speeding up approval times. The proposal also allocates a portion of city-owned land to be developed by non-profits, asks the province to allow the city to create a "use it or loose it" policy for developers sitting on approved but undeveloped land. City staff will report back to council in March 2023 with a report on how to implement the changes.
While introduced with the housing action plan, a separate item includes legalize rooming houses city-wide by March 2024, which was previously deferred due to lack of support on council.
The proposal was described as "a profoundly bold plan" by former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat, who ran against Tory for mayor in 2018, and praised by housing advocacy groups. Councillor Stephen Holyday described the plan as a "death blow" to detached homes such as those in his Etobicoke Centre ward.
Parks and recreation
Rail Deck Park
Main article: Rail Deck Park
In August 2016, Tory proposed the development of a 21-acre greenspace in the downtown core constructed above the Railway Lands. The proposed park would span between the Rogers Centre and Bathurst Street. The proposal was priced at $1.66 billion.
The plan was contingent on the city securing air rights to the lands above the railway, owned by Canadian National Railway and Toronto Terminals Railway. A group of private developers disputed this, claiming they had already owned the air rights. City council moved to re-zone the area above the railway for park use only, which would prevent developers from building residential buildings as is the case in the surrounding area. The developers sided with the city in the provincial government's Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), which sided with the city, noting the growing downtown core and a lack of open space. The developers wished to build a 12-acre park as part of a development of eight condo and office towers.
In May 2021, LPAT issued a new ruling in response to sided with the developers, ruling the city should not have rejected a proposal to build a "mixed use community" over the land. The tribunal decision effectively ended the city's plans to develop the land as park space. In a statement, Tory said he was "deeply disappointed" by the ruling and "the possible impact on the future of Rail Deck Park".
The development group plans to build a park at half the size of the city's original proposal, with mixed use towers taking up the remaining space.
COVID-19 pandemic
On March 23, 2020, a state of emergency was declared in Toronto by Tory, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This came six days after Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in the province, which included prohibition of all public events of over 50 people (later reduced to 5 people on March 28), closure of bars and restaurants (with the exception that restaurants could continue to provide takeout and delivery services) as well as libraries, theatres, cinemas, schools and daycares. On March 31, Tory announced that the City of Toronto would cancel all city-led major events, festivals, conferences, permits and cultural programs until June 30.
Beginning after Canada Day, street parking enforcement as well as fare evasion enforcement returned to Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission respectively. From July 2, 2020, face masks or coverings were required to be worn on the TTC. After July 7, masks were required in enclosed, public places.
Strong-mayor powers
Prior to the 2022 election, at the request of Tory, Premier Doug Ford's provincial government introduced legislation known as the Strong Mayors, Building More Homes Act, 2022, which granted Tory additional powers including the development of the budget, creating council committees, appointing the chairs and vice chairs of those committees, the power to reorganize departments, appointing department heads, and appointing the city manager. Tory was also granted the power to veto council decisions which do not align with priorities set by the province. On November 16, 2022, the province proposed further changes the powers of the mayor, introducing the Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 which would allow by-laws to be passed with only one-third of council voting in favour if Tory declared it to be in line with provincial priorities.
At a press conference, Tory stated that when speaking to the public, he often hears complaints relating to housing and community safety, but nobody has complained about the new powers. The mayor's office has also said he would make very limited use of new powers. The Ford government defended the new powers by pointing out the mayor's "city-wide mandate", having received more votes than the rest of council. The National Post's Adam Zivo argued that the mayor is just as legitimate as council and that the changes will increase Tory's "political capital and influence," which he can use to push for the city's interests to other levels of government.
The new legislation was condemned by Toronto City Council, which had not been consulted on the changes, some of which were introduced after the election. All five living former Toronto mayors, David Crombie, David Miller, Barbara Hall, Art Eggleton and John Sewell, wrote a letter to Tory describing the new powers as an "attack" on local democracy and majority rule. Political science professors such as Harvard's Pippa Norris and Laval's Louis Massicotte were puzzled by the legislation, as no other democratic legislature in the world can pass laws with only one-third support. Critics have urged Tory to reject some, or all, of the new powers as Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe had done. Toronto Sun commentator Brian Lilley supports expanded powers for the mayor due to his city-wide mandate, but argues that those powers should not include minority rule. The Globe and Mail's Marcus Gee questioned why Tory had chosen not revealed his plans to the public, and described the changes as "offensive in principle and dangerous in practice". The Toronto Star's editorial board also called on Tory to reject the new powers.
In December 2022, Tory asked the provincial government to amend the legislation to include a sunset clause after his term ends in 2026.
Taxes
Tory has promised to keep property tax increases at or below the rate of inflation. He had previously made the same promise during the last municipal election and kept it as mayor.
Post mayoralty
In December 2023, several months after he resigned as mayor, Tory joined Bell Media as a municipal affairs commentator appearing on CFRB as a commentator and substitute host as well as on CTV News and CP24. In March 2024, it was announced that Tory would rejoin the board of directors of Rogers, after being a member of the board between 2010 and 2014 prior to running for Mayor of Toronto.
Personal life
Tory has been married to Barbara Hackett, a home builder and renovator, since 1978. They met in 1976 at York University, where they both studied law and Hackett also studied business. Hackett was diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome in 1991. They have four children.
Tory has two brothers, Michael and Jeffrey, and one sister, Jennifer. One of Tory's ancestors, James Tory, was a soldier in the 71st Scottish Regiment. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war during the American Revolution. He later settled in Nova Scotia in the 1780s. His maternal grandmother, Helen Yvonne Solomon, was born in 1909 to a Russian Jewish family that had immigrated to Canada six years earlier and settled in Toronto. Helen Solomon married Howard English Bacon, an Anglican, and their daughter Elizabeth Bacon was raised a Christian and married Tory's father, John A. Tory, in 1953.
Honours
In 2012, Tory was made a member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for being "a consummate champion for the Greater Toronto Region as a founding member and chair of CivicAction and chairs and volunteers on countless fundraising campaigns". Tory is also a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and holds a commission as King's Counsel. In 2011, Tory was awarded a Harry Jerome Award for his work as co-chair of DiverseCity.
Election results
2022 Toronto mayoral election Candidate Votes % John Tory 342,158 62.00 Gil Penalosa 98,525 17.85 Chloe-Marie Brown 34,821 6.31 Blake Acton 8893 1.61 27 other candidates 67,493 12.22 Total 551,890 100.00
2018 Toronto mayoral election Candidate Votes % John Tory 479,659 63.49 Jennifer Keesmaat 178,193 23.59 Faith Goldy 25,667 3.40 Saron Gebresellasi 15,222 2.01 64 other candidates 56,752 7.51 Total 755,493 100.00
2014 Toronto mayoral election Candidate Votes % John Tory 394,775 40.28 Doug Ford 330,610 33.73 Olivia Chow 226,879 23.15 64 other candidates 27,913 2.84 Total 980,177 100.00
Ontario provincial by-election, Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock March 5, 2009 due to resignation of Laurie Scott Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Rick Johnson 15,542 43.88 +14.37 Progressive Conservative John Tory 14,595 41.20 -8.79 Green Mike Schreiner 2,330 6.58 -0.58 New Democratic Lyn Edwards 2,112 5.96 -5.95 Independent Jason Taylor 280 0.79 Family Coalition Jake Pothaar 258 0.73 +0.11 Freedom Bill Denby 140 0.40 -0.41 Independent John Turmel 94 0.27 Libertarian Paolo Fabrizio 72 0.20 Total valid votes 35,423 100.00 Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +11.58 Source: Elections Ontario
2007 Ontario general election: Don Valley West Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Kathleen Wynne 23,059 50.4 - Progressive Conservative John Tory 18,136 39.7 - Green Adrian Walker 2,202 4.8 - New Democratic Mike Kenny 2,135 4.7 - Family Coalition Daniel Kidd 183 0.4 -
Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey by-election, March 17, 2005
resignation of Ernie Eves Party Candidate Votes % ±% Progressive Conservative John Tory 15,610 56.3 Liberal Bob Duncanson 4,625 16.7 New Democratic Lynda McDougall 3,881 14.0 Green Frank de Jong 2,767 10.0 Family Coalition Paul Micelli 479 1.7 Independent William Cook 163 0.6 Libertarian Philip Bender 135 0.5 Independent John Turmel 85 0.3
Toronto municipal election, 2003: Mayor of Toronto Party Candidate Votes % David Miller 299,385 43.26 John Tory 263,189 38.03 Barbara Hall 63,751 9.21 John Nunziata 36,021 5.20 Tom Jakobek 5,277 0.76 39 other candidates 24,462 3.53 Total valid votes 692,085 100.00
For full results, see Results of the 2003 Toronto election.
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As a lawyer, talk show host, businessman, Member of Provincial Parliament and Leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park, and finally as Mayor, he has long believed that the diversity of Toronto is its strength. As Mayor, John’s focus will be on bringing the city together as One Toronto.
Among Mayor Tory’s top priorities are tackling transit and traffic congestion. He is focused on taking action to reduce commute times so Toronto residents can get to work on time and home to their families sooner. Mayor Tory is also getting to work on Toronto’s transit crisis by getting on with the Scarborough subway and beginning work on the SmartTrack line, a 53 kilometre, 22 station surface subway that would provide all day, two-way service across the city and bring needed relief to the congested Yonge subway.
The early years of Mayor Tory’s career were spent practicing law in Toronto, and he was later elected as a managing partner of one of Canada’s biggest law firms. In the 1980’s he served as Principal Secretary to Premier Bill Davis and as Associate Secretary of the Ontario Cabinet. In September 2004, Mayor Tory was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. In 2005, as PC Party Leader, Mayor Tory would serve as the Leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park.
Mayor Tory has an extensive background in volunteer community service. He served as volunteer Chairman and Commissioner of the Canadian Football League and has chaired fundraising campaigns for St. Michael’s Hospital and the United Way. He has also held leadership positions in a wide range of charitable organizations ranging from Canadian Paraplegic Association, Crimestoppers, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto Association for Community Living, the United Way, and the Women's Legal Education & Action Fund (LEAF).
Mayor Tory’s community work has been widely recognized. Mayor Tory was a founding Board Member and Chair of the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance. He is a recipient of both the Paul Harris and Mel Osborne Awards from the Rotary and Kiwanis organizations respectively and was named a Life Member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. He is also the recipient of an African Canadian Achievement Award and the Harry Jerome Award. Mayor Tory was recently awarded the Order of Ontario for being a “consummate champion for the Greater Toronto Region.”
Born on May 28, 1954, Mayor Tory and his wife Barbara have been married since 1978. They raised their four children, John Jr, Chris, Susan and George in Toronto and are now delighted to have four grandchildren to spoil.
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Late May 2023. I was standing backstage at the TVO (Ontario’s public broadcaster) and the Toronto Region Board of Trade Toronto mayoral debate, my body tense with nerves.
Not because of the debate itself. My wife Kathryn and I were expecting our second child to arrive any day and there were signs that it might be that evening. We had the hospital bag packed and I kept my cell phone on the podium, warning journalist and debate host Steve Paikin beforehand that I would have to leave mid-debate if that text came in.
As the other candidates and I covered some familiar territory on the stage—debating who had the better housing plan, asking Olivia Chow how high she’d raise taxes, and challenging each other’s records—I kept glancing down, watching as my cell phone dipped in and out of signal.
Ninety minutes later, I exhaled. No knockout blows against me and—more importantly—no emergency texts.
I did not have running for mayor of Toronto on my 2023 bingo card.
After being re-elected in 2022, Mayor John Tory appointed me as the chair of the Planning and Housing Committee. I worked with the mayor to launch the Housing Action Plan at our first council meeting, laying out an ambitious agenda for the term to finally change the policies and regulations that were standing in the way of more housing options for Torontonians. It was full steam ahead on getting things done.
And then Mayor Tory held his shocking Friday night press conference where he resigned over impropriety and everything changed overnight. Toronto was about to have the biggest by-election in Canada’s history—an election that came out of nowhere.
Looking back a year later, I feel the campaign revealed some important truths about Toronto and our political culture. It also helped reinforce for me why I decided to get into politics and who I’m fighting for.
Toronto mayoral candidates Josh Matlow, left to right, Olivia Chow, Mitzie Hunter, Brad Bradford, Mark Saunders and Ana Bailao take the stage at a mayoral debate in Scarborough, Ont. on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Chris Young/The Canadian Press
The campaign that was
I first ran for Toronto City Council in 2018 because I was working at city hall as an urban planner in the chief planner’s office and was frustrated with the lack of action on urgent priorities, particularly getting more housing built. So I ran, outworking the competition and odds-on favourite (a former NDP member of Parliament) to win my seat by 288 votes.
After four years on council, I saw the impact I could have as a local councillor in breaking down bureaucratic barriers to get things done—working to provide tax relief to small businesses, improving road safety measures across my ward, and withstanding misguided NIMBY opposition to get a much-needed supportive housing site built.
When Tory resigned, I started to think about what would come next. I believed in many of the priorities that the former mayor had focused his third term on, but I felt a deep sense that we needed more decisive action. That message was echoed by thousands of Torontonians I spoke with who wanted an accelerated approach to fix long-standing problems, not a fundamental 180 in direction.
There’s a perception that urbanism and progressive politics go hand-in-hand, while the right side of the political spectrum is seen as antagonistic toward cities. This misconception partly arises because centre-right parties often have few elected representatives from major cities, limiting their opportunities to share their perspectives on urban issues. Consequently, Canada’s centre-right is often absent from ongoing discussions about addressing urban challenges.
I saw how Tory built a centre-right coalition and governed, as well as the void that was being left with his departure. As the pandemic waned and with the city armed with new strong mayor powers from the provincial government, there was a need for leadership that could deliver practical solutions for the real challenges people were facing in their daily lives.
So, I decided to run.
Inspired by the principles of limited, better government and the need to be pragmatic, my team and I landed on Less Talk, More Action as the focus of my campaign. It captured the energy and impatience I felt to deliver on these priorities with common-sense solutions. It reflected what the people of Toronto needed—and still need.
Less Talk, More Action was a response to the frustration of endless chatter at Toronto City Hall, where we would spend hours debating inconsequential items while important issues got deferred and delayed for months by a council hesitant to make a decision.
To pick just one example, a two-hour debate about whether or not to change the name of SmartTrack transit stations, before ultimately voting not to, without spending a single minute on how to advance transit construction and improve service in the city. This was the type of silly dialogue and time-wasting that really makes people (understandably) feel like city hall has lost the plot.
Toronto Mayor John Tory sits in the Toronto city council chamber during the budget meeting, on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Chris Young/The Canadian Press
Hitting a policy brick wall
Running for mayor was a humbling experience—exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. We crisscrossed the 640 square kilometres of the city every day, connecting with dozens and sometimes hundreds of citizens at a time and engaging with the media to amplify and share our ideas.
It gave me a real insight into how unique each neighbourhood in Toronto really is and how many things we actually have in common. Whether it was a Somali mother in Rexdale or a small business owner in Queen West, they were frustrated about how disconnected city hall was from their lives.
Poorly planned construction. Violent and random attacks on the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission). Ballooning housing costs, with rents for a one-bedroom apartment hitting nearly $2,500 a month. These were what most would talk to me about, looking for answers and reasons to be optimistic. Not to mention, each year, the average Toronto driver loses 118 hours to congestion. It is a daily nightmare, and worse, politicians are notionally resigned to this just being the reality of living in the city, where residents are destined to suffer through the chaos.
So I made it my mission to propose solutions:
Working with experts to put together comprehensive plans to address safety on the TTC through increasing police, improving mental health outreach, and building subway platform doors.
Creating a housing plan focused on the changes needed to get shovels in the ground and deliver new homes—not create some new bureaucracy and imaginary targets that could never be hit.
Hiring a “congestion relief commissioner” who could coordinate major construction projects (to protect against the simultaneous construction and closure of parallel routes), accelerate the Gardiner Expressway highway rebuild by allowing 24/7 construction, and hire more traffic wardens to keep people from blocking intersections.
I’m proud of the ideas we put forward, but it was hard for them to cut through all the noise and apathy that plagues our civic discourse. People’s lives were busy, and they weren’t focused on digesting the nuances of policy differences between candidates. It didn’t help that there were six serious contenders, myself included. Debate stages were crowded, to say the least. There were a whopping 102 candidates on the final ballot—including one guy who said he was running on behalf of his dog Molly. (Over the course of the campaign, I learned this was, unfortunately, the only fact about the election that most people absorbed.)
My campaign team stressed for days about how much detail to include in my housing plan, something I’m passionate about and professionally trained in. Ultimately, we followed my communication director’s advice to keep it simple. Because significant details about housing plan announcements can’t be captured in 15 seconds on the TV news, our unique approach blended into all the others.
Even one of my most controversial policy announcements couldn’t cut through: opening up tendering for city-run construction projects to provide more competitive and transparent bidding, delivering better value for taxpayers. While the topic was wonky and difficult to explain, I knew it presented a real solution that would save the city hundreds of millions of dollars on an annual basis. It would also drive a contrast with other candidates who were beholden to special interests and a few select powerful unions that ultimately drive up real costs for us all.
While it did create that contrast, ultimately, it still did not connect with regular people. Folks would see or hear the 15-second clips of what each of the top six candidates did or said that day and move on. The only real headlines were about the weekly polling numbers—some of which did not seem grounded in reality. The polls were clearly the story of choice for newsrooms with dwindling staff and resources, which just added to the confusion.
Looking back a year later, I’m most proud of the ideas I put on the table. Over the course of the campaign, I found my voice and feel more confident and comfortable than ever, with mission clarity about who I’m fighting for and why it matters. It was an incredible learning and growth opportunity, even though the results were not what I hoped for (I wound up in 8th place).
I’m a fighter by nature, but my tone came off too aggressive and negative at times—especially over social media when, early in the campaign, we had to push hard to gain name recognition. Our tactics achieved that objective, but they ultimately undercut the pragmatic solutions I was putting forward and allowed my opponents to paint me as a villain.
This is where I think people underestimate the hard work involved. Name recognition is a metric of how well-known a candidate is. It encompasses their life’s work: relationships, experiences, and networks across the city. Chow did not win just because she was the most well-known. She won because she had all of those things in spades and a political organization ready to mobilize at a moment’s notice.
The Toronto Left’s secret weapon
What the by-election also demonstrated was the extent and effectiveness of the campaign machine that Progress Toronto had built. Although Toronto doesn’t have municipal political parties, Progress Toronto essentially functions as one, supporting left-wing, NDP candidates, and running campaigns to defeat centrist and right-leaning councillors like myself. They aren’t shy about it on their website: “We believe the path to building a progressive city is through building power and changing power.”
At first, there was a lot of speculation and uncertainty around who their “chosen” candidate would be. But having Chow, former NDP MP and wife of federal NDP leader Jack Layton, step forward instantly changed the campaign equation. She was the frontrunner.
Her name recognition from decades of holding elected office (she was first elected as a school board trustee before I was born), combined with the data, volunteers, and machinery built up by Progress Toronto, proved to be an unstoppable force. They are perpetually organized and flicked the switch to turn the institutional left-wing labour machine on. Credit to them.
This demonstrated more clearly to me than ever before that city hall is run by the people who show up. And when centrist and conservative common-sense folks aren’t speaking up for their needs and desires, the special interests and left-wing activists are the ones who run the show.
Toronto mayor-elect Olivia Chow speaks to media outside City Hall in Toronto, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
Olivia Chow as mayor
The Torontonians I met during the campaign are hopeful, but they are facing a daily struggle building their lives here. They aren’t looking for the ideological score-settling that the council’s left-wing has spent 12 long years waiting for. They just want solutions and the understanding that the local government actually cares about their day-to-day problems.
These are the folks I was fighting for in the campaign. And over the past year, it’s been revealing to see how the new mayor has approached the job.
There has been some important progress on getting new funding arrangements for the city—with a provincial deal that took the Gardiner Expressway off our books and nearly a half-billion in funding from the federal government.
However, our housing crisis keeps getting worse as the wheels spin at city hall. We’ve only broken ground on one affordable “Housing Now” site, despite having approvals ready for three. None of that half-billion from the federal Housing Accelerator Fund has been allocated yet. There have been zero results from the so-called public builder that Chow is trying to stand up. The idea of creating more bureaucracy to create more housing is grounded in an ideological worldview rather than reality.
Twelve months in and it’s not clear to me what Chow’s real priorities are. So far, it seems to have been spending a lot of political capital on introducing an illegal cap to ride-sharing licences that ultimately had to be walked back, presiding over an increase to the vacant home tax that saw more than 170,000 households incorrectly threatened with thousands of additional dollars in taxes, and attempting to claw back badly-needed dollars from the police budget.
Congestion in Toronto remains brutal and world-class in all the wrong ways. Yet the mayor and her team have been completely silent on plans to get the city moving (apart from adding more bike lanes), grow our economy, attract investment and talent, and restore the optimism that fueled Canada’s largest city for generations.
She has eclipsed her own campaign promise of a “modest tax increase” with a record-breaking hike that nearly hit 10 percent—the first of several significant hikes we’ll likely see before the term ends. Couple this with a freshly-inked contract for TTC workers that will be the most expensive transit collective bargaining agreement in North American history. Costs continue to soar.
As people struggle to pay the rent, buy groceries, and fill up the gas tank, Chow has definitively made Toronto more expensive. Higher taxes and more new spending is not the answer. Toronto needs leadership that will focus city hall and its tens of thousands of staff on creating an impact that improves the lives of people and neighbourhoods in our city.
All things considered
One of my biggest takeaways from the campaign was just how disconnected most people are from their municipal representatives. After having experienced local politics up close and personal, I now have absolute clarity about the mutually reinforcing challenges of citizen disconnection and the political complacency holding us back.
I suspect this state of affairs was a product of having eight years of relative stability at city hall. Though some criticized John Tory’s approach as being too cautious and indecisive, for most Torontonians, a “bland” managerial style was a feature, not a bug. They liked having a mayor who was calm, competent, and could serve as a respectable representative. Government often works best when it’s not front and centre on every file. But it also means many voters were lulled into a false sense of security.
As our family got together earlier this month to celebrate our daughter Bronwyn’s first birthday— she arrived safely just over a week after that TVO debate—it made me think about what her future holds.
What type of leadership is required today so that in 20 or 30 years, she’ll be able to picture building a life in Toronto? One where she can find housing she can afford, have access to opportunity and growth, and have mobility to get around the city and feel safe doing so.
No one knows what 2026 will hold, but it’s that question—for my own family and for yours—that keeps me laser-focused on doing everything I can at Toronto City Hall to make life in this city more affordable, safer, and easier to get around.
On the first Monday morning of June, the master winemaker Thomas Bachelder was making what sounded like a germane point about French grammar and the new name of an old winery that he has been associated with for its 20-year history. I am not entirely sure what the point was because most of my attention was focused on the flute of delicious and palate-refreshing blanc de noir sparkling wine in my hand. I think it was something about the masculine or feminine gendering of the word ”clos” or possibly “domaine.”
Whatever the L’Acadamie Française might have to say, that old winery has a new name and Le Clos Jordanne is now Domaine Le Clos Jordanne. Domaine Le Clos Jordanne (or DCJ as I think I may start to pretentiously call it) has a new name because it is now truly housed in a domain: the building and estate on Niagara’s Beamsville Bench that used to be Angel’s Gate. And that’s where Thomas Bachelder and company had welcomed me and a handful of wine journalists on the eve of its opening.
Until last week Clos Jordanne, one of Niagara’s most prestigious and sought-after labels, had no winery in which to receive visitors. Until last autumn’s harvest, Clos Jordanne wines were made in other wineries controlled by its owner, Arterra Wines Canada, the country’s biggest. The acquisition of the old Angel’s Gate winery earlier last year was widely seen as a signal that the on- and off- and on-again history of Le Clos Jordanne was finally solidified, just as the original Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines with which it made turned 20 years old.
As it turns out, the acquisition of the property and building were not the only items in Arterra’s shopping cart. The company has bought a number of other vineyards on the Beamsville Bench for the purpose of making more wine under the Domaine Le Clos Jordanne label. The original Clos Jordanne vineyards, including Clayton Terrace and Le Grand Clos, are near the town of Jordan, to the east, closer to the Niagara River.
Future DCJ wines made from Pinot Noir or Chardonnay grown on the Beamsville terroir will be distinctly labeled. For Bachelder, who makes wine for his own label from sites all over the Niagara Peninsula,See this column from November 2022 on Bachelder’s Toussaints project. the idea of developing new wines for Clos Jordanne is clearly tantalizing, and he mused that fans of the Domaine might eventually split into rival camps, depending on which expression they preferred.
2020 Crémant de Jordanne
The distracting glass of sparkling wine turned out to be another new thing. This was the 2020 Crémant de Jordanne, not yet to be released. It’s a “white from black,” blanc de noir made from Pinot Noir. “We have a lot of Pinot Noir, so that’s what our first sparkling was always going to be,” explained Bachelder. Seventy-five percent of the Clos Jordanne vineyard is planted with the red grape. It should retail for about $55, and is clearly meant to rival the houses from the French bubbly region that begins with a “C.” It was crisp and clear, underneath citrus it echoed the raspberry notes that its sister still wines often show.
As it turned out the gathering was more than the showcase of the new winery, which will receive guests by appointment, but also the launch event for the 2021 vintage of the current six wine Domaine Le Clos Jordanne portfolio. Levi de Loryn, director of winemaking at Arterra across Canada was at the event. He explained to me that the 2021 DCJ were ready for release this autumn, as per the usual cycle from harvest to market. The company had held them back to wait for the new winery to open. These wines will be released, along with the Crémant, to the public this summer.
At the event, we tasted the Pinot Noirs first, on the principle that the reds are in fact lighter on the palate than the weightier Chardonnays. This makes sense in the setting of a technical tasting when the wines are taken without accompaniment. At a meal, food will serve as a balancing agent, and one would happily begin with a DCJ Chardonnay with the first course and slide into the Pinot Noir on the second.
I have grouped the wines by their classification or specific vineyard site.
Domaine Le Clos Jordanne winery. Credit: Malcolm Jolley.
2021 Jordan Village Pinot Noir and Chardonnay
The Jordan Village wines are classified by the simple appellation of “Niagara Peninsula” because even though all their fruit comes from the original Clos Jordanne vineyards, the Grand Clos and Clayton Terrace sites are technically in the sub-appellation of 20 Mile Bench, while the slightly higher Talon Ridge site is in the sub-appellation of Vinemount Ridge.
The real story of both these wines is the price: $29.95 a bottle for limited production of just 1,200 (Chardonnay) or 1,250 (Pinot Noir) cases. Arterra makes a lot of wine, and could easily market these ones as a trophy collector’s item at twice the price. If their natural competitors are the fellow cool climate wines from Burgundy, premium Oregon Pinots and Chards, or even boutique Niagara, then they are among the best deals in the country.
Bachelder said at the tasting that he and his DCJ team of associate winemaker Phillip Brown and cellar master Kerri Crawford metaphorically “go to Burgundy, not to copy but to inform.” The Pinot was pretty and vibrant, with a floral note on the nose, a cherry red fruit character, and evident tannins that suggest long life ahead. The Chardonnay was bold and showed pineapple tropical fruit that is balanced by a clean line of mineral acid, resonating into a delicious long finish.
2021 Claystone Terrace Pinot Noir and Chardonnay
The Clayton Terrace site makes the smallest production of Clos Jordanne wines with just 500 cases of each, priced at $42 a bottle. Bachelder explained his team makes more barrels of the Claystone and Grand Clos wines that they use: most of the production goes into the Village wines.
Phil Brown spoke of a wild character to the Claystone Pinot Noir, whose vines lie near the edge of a Niagara Escarpment forest. In the red were raspberry notes, and maybe a more serious and earthy and concentrated version of the Village Pinot. Claystone Pinot has its particular fans. Its sister wine, the 2021 Claystone Chardonnay also echoed the Village white, but maybe with a touch more salinity: less Montrachet, more Meursault.
2021 Grand Clos Pinot Noir and Chardonnay
Bachelder calls the wines of the Grand Clos site “meatier,” due, he thinks, to greater western sunlight exposure. Production at Grand Clos is slightly larger than at Claystone with 800 cases made of Pinot Noir and 700 cases of Chardonnay. At the apex of the DCJ pyramid, the Grand Clos wines are priced at $49.95 respectively.
Going back to the Village as a baseline, the 2021 Grand Clos Pinot presented as a kind of deeper, darker, more concentrated version, with notes moving into black cherry and a quiet balance of acidity, and soft but firm tannin in a young wine. The Grand Clos Chardonnay showed richly with a combined note of lemon meringue pie, if this could be said to be present in a glass. The wines were delicious, and want a long meal to be savoured slowly as they open up.
Other things
More good news: there will be wines to come. We had a sneak peek of some of the 2022 wines, to be released this autumn, and even a barrel sample of 2023 Chardonnay from one of the Beamsville sites. It’s too early to comment, except to say the future of Domaine Le Clos Jordanne looks bright.
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In conclusion, John Tory is truly an astounding figure in the world of politics. With his remarkable accomplishments and unwavering commitment to public service, he has proven himself to be a true leader and visionary. From his successful tenure as Mayor of Toronto to his esteemed legal career and philanthropic work, Tory has left an indelible mark on the city and its residents. His ability to navigate challenges with grace and determination, coupled with his genuine compassion for the people he serves, has earned him the respect and admiration of all who have had the privilege of working with him. John Tory’s unwavering dedication to making a positive impact on his community sets him apart as a true trailblazer and reinforces his status as one of the most remarkable individuals in the political arena.
FAQs
1. What is John Tory’s political background?
John Tory served as the Mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2022. Prior to his mayoral tenure, he was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and also held various positions in the government and private sector.
2. What are some notable achievements of John Tory?
During his time as mayor, John Tory worked tirelessly to improve public transit infrastructure, champion affordable housing initiatives, and foster economic development in Toronto. He also successfully led the city through challenging times, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. Is John Tory involved in philanthropy?
Yes, John Tory has a strong commitment to philanthropy. He has been actively involved in numerous charitable organizations and initiatives, including supporting youth mentorship programs and advocating for access to education for underprivileged communities.
4. What sets John Tory apart as a leader?
John Tory’s ability to bring people together and find common ground is what sets him apart as a leader. He is known for his thoughtful decision-making, open communication, and collaborative approach, which has enabled him to navigate complex challenges and achieve impactful results.
5. What is John Tory’s educational background?
John Tory holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. His educational background has provided a strong foundation for his successful career in both politics and law.
6. What is John Tory’s current role?
John Tory’s current role is a private citizen after completing his term as the Mayor of Toronto. However, his impact and influence continue to resonate in the city as his accomplishments shape the future direction of Toronto.
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Toronto elected a new mayor on Monday, with businessman and longtime civic activist John Tory replacing the controversial and scandal-plagued Mayor Rob Ford. Tory has promised a return to normal life for Canada's largest city.
Tory currently has 40 percent of the vote in the count, according to CBC News, followed by city councilman Doug Ford — Rob Ford's brother — with 34 percent; in third place is Olivia Chow, a major name in Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, with 23 percent. This surprisingly close results may yet widen for Tory, as the polls had tended to show him with a somewhat stronger lead over Doug Ford.
Rob Ford is not gone, though — he easily won election to his old seat on the city council. Ford dropped out of the mayoral race in September in order to deal with a health crisis that turned out to be a diagnosis of cancer. His brother Doug, who had held the seat on the city council, agreed to run for mayor in his place.
Still, this brings to a close Rob Ford's tumultuous four-year tenure as mayor. In the latter part of his term, Ford gained worldwide infamy for his drug abuse and a recent stay in rehab — plus a variety of other outlandish behavior such as knocking over a city councilwoman and a reported audio recording which he used a variety of racial and ethnic slurs.
Tory ran for mayor in 2003 as the main center-right candidate, losing that race to a left-leaning opponent. He later shifted to provincial politics as the leader of Ontario's Conservatives, representing the party's moderate wing. During this race Tory positioned himself a centrist candidate — contrasted with the Ford brothers as right-wing populists, and Chow on the left — winning the support of many people in both the Conservative and center-left Liberal camps, plus a large section of the business community.
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Former Toronto Mayor John Tory has people reacting online with mixed thoughts on the announcement of his new job title.
Bell Media announced Tory will be joining NEWSTALK 1010 and CTV News as a Municipal Affairs Expert. He’ll also be making weekly appearances on “Moore in the Morning,” “Power Play with Vassy Kapelos” and “CP24 Live at 5.”
His new role will provide insight as a political analyst across all platforms and contribute to the upcoming Mississauga mayoral by-election coverage.
However, some people took to social media and joked about his new Municipal Affairs title, after he resigned from the mayor’s office back in February following news of his extramarital affair with a former staffer.
“Since he got his new radio show everybody is making the same joke about John Tory being the expert on “municipal affairs,” and why not, perfect joke.”
“He is an expert on affairs alright,” one user on X said.
“Well I do know he has a strong background in having affairs – is this a show for for cheaters?” another said.
Meanwhile, others are showing support for Tory with congratulations.
“Glad to have him back on the air,” one user said.
Another user commented, “Love hearing him on the radio.”
Additionally, before Tory was mayor he hosted the weekday afternoon program “The Live Drive on Toronto’s NEWSTALK 1010” from 2009 to 2014.
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The NHL has not yet made an official announcement on hub cities.
The league originally had 10 candidates as potential hubs, with seven in the United States and three in Canada.
The Canucks announced last week that Vancouver would not be at a hub city after British Columbia expressed concerns about the NHL’s plan.
Tory said the federal government addressed border and quarantine concerns while Toronto officials took a closer look at other parts of the plan.
“The other kinds of questions that came were how do you define the bubble?” Tory said. “Because there were concerns that were understood completely when you bring a number of teams and a number of these players in, and say when they’re not playing they’re going to be in a given hotel, what if they want to go outside for a walk or just have some fresh air?
“There had to be considerations of that kind of thing that we really just had to answer questions as to what we could do to help facilitate that. … We gave answers to those questions and gave them always with the thought in mind that what we wanted to do was try to make sure we put our best put forward to try and be named a hub city — results to be determined — but at the same time did not adversely impact on the interests of the general public who we are here to serve and who themselves need access to fresh air and open spaces and other things.”
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer, said Thursday that she had no official news on whether Edmonton had been chosen as a hub city.
She said last week she was part of a conversation about what health protocols would have to be in place, and the plan seemed to be well received by the league.
Alberta set out guidelines this spring for professional sporting events that involve participants sticking within a cohort that’s separate from the public.
The plan also relies on frequent testing at the cost of the NHL, rather than the public.
The cohort model focuses on anyone with face-to-face contact, the dominant mode of COVID-19 spread, Hinshaw said. Rules are still being worked out for cleaners, security guards, hotel staff and others with less direct interaction, but they wouldn’t be expected to stay within the NHL’s Edmonton bubble.
Edmonton’s COVID-19 caseload has been increasing recently. After a relatively steady couple of months, the city added 149 new cases between June 25 and July 1. It now has more active cases than Calgary, the longtime Alberta hotspot.
But Hinshaw said the majority of new cases have a known source of transmission.
“Of course we continue to monitor cases and would be very happy to work with the NHL should there be questions about our cases,” she said.
“But at the moment I believe our measures are adequate and are sufficient to protect the public.”
Toronto had 794 active cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday.
The numbers from Toronto and Edmonton are well below many major American cities.
Hinshaw said if players and league staff failed to follow public health guidelines, they would be subject to the same consequences as any other event organizer.
“Certainly if the guidance was not being followed, that would indicate a need to have further conversation and, if after that conversation there was still a lack of interest in following the guidance, then that would be the point … at which more stringent sanctions would need to be put into place,” she said.
“Through any of the conversations that I’ve had to date there’s not been any indication that there’s been concern with the requirements that we had put out with respect to protecting public health.”
— With files from Lauren Krugel in Edmonton.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2020.
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John Tory resigned as Toronto’s mayor on Friday after admitting to a relationship with a former office member.
Tory said he had an affair with the woman during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. It mutually ended earlier this year.
“It did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man,” Tory said during an emergency press conference at city hall.
“I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part. It came at a time when Barbara, my wife of 40-plus years, and I endured many lengthy periods apart while I carried out my responsibilities during the pandemic.”
“As a result, I have decided to step down as mayor so that I can take the time to reflect on my mistakes,” Tory announced.
Tory has been married to Barbara Hackett, a home builder and renovator, since 1978. The soon-to-be-former mayor said he believes that he must commit himself to the work required to repair his personal relationships.
RELATED: Here’s Toronto Mayor John Tory’s full resignation statement
“I am deeply sorry, and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all of those hurt by my actions, including my staff, my colleagues on city council and the public service for whom I have such respect,” Tory added.
“Most of all, I apologize to my wife, Barb and my family, who I have let down more than anybody else.”
There are no established rules or laws against romantic workplace relationships in Canada between consenting adults.
The Toronto Star was the first media outlet to report on Tory’s relationship with the woman. The employee was not identified, but the Star notes she’s a 31-year-old former advisor in the mayor’s office.
City councillors react to shocking Tory resignation
Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie is expected to take over as acting mayor until a by-election is held. She has represented Ward 25 Scarborough–Rouge Park as a councillor since 2018.
According to the City of Toronto Act, a by-election is required, unlike if a councillor resigns (where it’s up to council to choose to appoint or hold a by-election). Council needs to pass a by-law for a by-election within 60 days of resignation.
City councillor Brad Bradford (Ward 19 Beaches-East York) tells CityNews that everyone is shocked by Tory’s sudden departure from office.
“It’s a difficult night for all of us here at city hall, and it’s a difficult night for Torontonians,” Bradford said on the phone. “This was really unexpected. A lot of us are trying to grapple with what’s next. Despite the circumstances around how we got here tonight, it’s important to remember Tory served as mayor for eight years through some challenging circumstances.”
Bradford said the city clerk will advise council on the next steps, but he acknowledged that Toronto residents will likely be heading back to the ballot soon.
“We will be in a full city-wide campaign, and Torontonians will be going to the polls.”
Councillor Mike Colle (Ward 8 Eglinton-Lawrence) echoed Bradford’s sentiments, saying the news “came totally out of the blue.”
“He’s not that type of guy at all,” Colle told CityNews in a phone interview on Friday night. “I guess he wasn’t thinking straight… I really feel upset for him and his wife and kids.”
Colle said he feels this now taints Tory’s reputation.
“It tarnishes his record, but it doesn’t take away from the amount of work he’s done for years. You can’t forget that.”
Ontario premier Doug Ford, who lost the 2014 mayoral race to Tory, thanked him for his many years of public service, adding he wished “nothing but the best for my friend.”
“John will be remembered as a dedicated and hard-working mayor who served as a steady leader during the most difficult days of the pandemic,” Ford said in a statement released Saturday. “He united Toronto behind an optimistic vision for the future and I will miss working with him to see it come to life.”
RELATED: John Tory resigns — What’s the process for having a new mayor in Toronto?
On October 24, 2022, Tory secured a third mandate as mayor after a campaign that saw him touting his years of experience in Toronto’s top office in his bid for re-election.
At the time, the newly re-elected mayor said he would work with the federal and provincial governments to get more housing built, along with also focusing on other priorities like affordability and economic recovery from the pandemic, saying he wants the city to “fashion the kind of recovery that leaves nobody behind.”
In early December, the Ford government granted “strong mayor powers” to Toronto and Ottawa, with the first set of those powers allowing the leaders to veto council decisions deemed to hamper the creation of new homes, prepare and table the city’s budget, as well as hire and fire department heads. Tory maintained he would use the powers in a limited and responsible way.
The 68-year-old was often criticized for his strong support of Toronto police. Tory announced a proposed $48.3-million increase to the police budget, which would go toward the addition of about 200 officers and bring police funding to just over $1.1 billion for 2023.
In the wake of a recent increase in violent attacks on the TTC, Tory said the announcement of more police in the system is just one step toward addressing safety concerns on public transit that came out of discussions between the city, the TTC, its union representatives and police.
Tory was first elected as Toronto’s mayor in 2014 and was re-elected again in 2018, defeating former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat with 63 per cent of the vote.
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Former Toronto mayor John Tory surfaced Wednesday to throw a last minute endorsement to Ana Bailão in the city’s mayoral race, calling his former deputy mayor "the best choice to lead this city forward and to bring it together every day."
Tory released a lengthy statement on Wednesday afternoon in which he described Bailão as "the leader who can deliver on the promise of Toronto" and formally endorsed her candidacy for mayor.
"Ana earned my respect and my trust because of who she is and what she can do. She stood up to me and she changed my mind and had my back and in doing so she made me and this city better," he wrote. "She will be there for you, every day, working tirelessly to make this city better. Ana will get more housing built. Ana will make sure the new transit we need actually gets built and she will see to it that we continue to improve service and reliability on the TTC.
Tory also suggested there were some candidates who might not fare so well in the job.
“The Mayor of Toronto cannot be polarizing or divisive. They can't be driven by party politics or represent just one group of people. It's all hands on deck,” he said, without mentioning names.
“Mayors of Toronto can't pick fights they don't know how to win. You have to be pragmatic. You have to be able to move projects forward, day by day, month by month. ”
Polls have consistently put former councillor and MP Olivia Chow well ahead of other contenders in the race. Polls released this week indicate her support remains north of 30 per cent, while the others continue to fight for second spot at 10 to 15 per cent support
However, Bailão has managed to garner strong support from others on council. Nine sitting councillors have said they are supporting her, including Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie.
In addition to having been allies while on council, a number of Tory's former staffers are working for the Bailão campaign.
Tory himself has kept a low profile since resigning from office earlier this year over an affair with a staffer in his office.
It was that resignation which triggered the mayoral race.
However polls early in the campaign showed that if Tory were running, he would be in the lead by far.
Despite nearly three months of campaigning and multiple debates, none of the other candidates has managed to break away from the pack as a clear challenger to Chow.
In recent weeks, former police chief Mark Saunders has shifted his message to present himself as the only candidate who can beat Chow. However the message has done little to move his fortunes in the polls and a call for other candidates to support him did not get any traction.
Right-leaning candidate Rob Davis, a former city councilor, did drop out of the race Wednesday. But he threw his support to Anthony Furey.
Saunders was quick to respond to news of the Tory endorsement, with a tweet suggesting it would solidify Chow’s win.
“John Tory gives up on Toronto, again,” he said in a tweet attached to a graphic which included a picture of Chow laughing and the words “backroom deal” and “good luck Toronto.”
Saunders got an endorsement of his own yesterday from Premier Doug Ford.
Ford weighed in on the race again Wednesday, saying that he wished Tory was still mayor, that they still talk and that "if Olivia Chow gets in it'll be an unmitigated disaster."
Josh Matlow also issued a swift response to Tory’s endorsement.
“John Tory and Doug Ford don’t get to tell you who to vote for,” he wrote in a tweet referencing both endorsements. “And I know they don’t want us to win. I need your support on June 26th to take a stand for Toronto and take back our city.”
He urged people to visit his website to see his platform.
Chow’s campaign later issued a similar statement.
“In this election, John Tory and Doug Ford are two votes. They don’t get to decide the next mayor of our city, the people do,” Chow’s statement read. “Life is not affordable for a lot of people and the status quo is not working. That is why my message of building a more affordable, caring and safe city is being welcomed by so many Torontonians. Together, let’s make that change happen on Monday.”
It’s unclear whether Tory’s last-minute endorsement might be enough to boost Bailão into position as the clear alternative to Chow. However he is by far the most recognizable name in local politics to offer an endorsement in the race.
“The John Tory endorsement may in fact have come just a little too late,” political strategist Kim Wright told CP24.
She said the endorsement would have been much more helpful ahead of advance voting, but that it could still help Bailão to bring out voters on Election Day.
“Where this will help Ana Bailão now is for last minute get-out-the-vote efforts,” she said.
She said it could also be a “double-edged sword,” with polling data indicating that many people felt the city was heading in the wrong direction in the last few years of his mayoralty.
However he did manage to secure a third term shortly before resigning, with 62 per cent support in the fall election.
Voters are set to go to the polls this coming Monday, June 26.
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I’m going to be ticked off with John Tory.
None of this was supposed to happen.
Tory was supposed to be mayor until the fall of 2026, followed by a normal municipal election cycle and the election of a new mayor and city council.
But the exposure of his affair with a subordinate staffer in his office by the Toronto Star in February — which clearly violated the city’s code of conduct as opposed to simply having an extra-marital affair — made it impossible for him to remain in office.
Had Tory finished his term and retired as he planned to do, it’s unlikely Chow would have run.
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It would have been equally unlikely had Tory fulfilled the promise he made in his first term of office that he would only seek two terms.
In either case, an indication of Chow’s chances given a typical field of candidates in a conventional municipal election, was that in the 2014 race for mayor, Chow started out as the frontrunner but ended up a distant third behind Tory and Doug Ford.
In 2015, she attempted a comeback in federal politics but was easily defeated by the Liberals’ Adam Vaughan in Spadina-Fort York.
But that was then and this is now.
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Now Chow has Toronto’s progressive vote almost entirely to herself while the conservative vote is split among multiple candidates who have been fighting for second place since the start of the campaign, with no one emerging as the “Anybody but Chow” candidate.
If Chow wins on Monday, she becomes the leading contender to win again in the 2026 municipal election, which would see her in office until 2030.
Fiscal conservatives should consider this possibility with abject horror, given her tax-and-spend philosophy consistent through her entire political career as a school trustee, city and Metro councillor and NDP member of parliament
It’s not that Chow’s incompetent. It’s that she’s very competent and that for the first time she’s going to have real power, particularly with Premier Ford awarding strong mayor powers to Toronto when he thought he was giving them to Tory.
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Chow said during the campaign she’s not going to use those powers to implement her agenda and instead wants to further democratize City Hall.
We’ll see, because it’s not as if politicians don’t change their minds due to what they describe as changing circumstances when they make the change.
Tory said he wasn’t going to endorse anyone in the race and last week endorsed former city councillor Ana Bailão.
Premier Ford said he wasn’t going to endorse anyone and then endorsed former police chief Mark Saunders.
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The fact Ford has described a Chow victory as an “unmitigated disaster” that will drive businesses out of Toronto because of high taxes, bodes ill for voters who want the city and province working together to solve problems, not create more of them
In any event, Tory supporting Bailão and Ford supporting Saunders doesn’t hurt Chow because it drives home to voters that the political forces opposed to her are divided.
Finally, it’s incorrect to attribute a Chow victory on Monday — unless all the polls have been spectacularly wrong — simply to name recognition, because while that’s part of it, she also has the support of NDP operatives and voters in downtown Toronto.
In 2014, that wasn’t anywhere near enough to propel her to victory. This time it looks like it will.
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With dismal voter turnout and a third term for Tory, the city’s election presented some expected results—and a few big surprises
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John Tory has been elected to his third term as mayor of Toronto and will become the longest serving mayor in post-amalgamation Toronto.
Tory cruised to victory, receiving 62 percent of the vote and holding second place finisher Gil Penalosa to under 18 percent. Tory won the mayoral vote in all 25 wards. With just 29.2 percent of eligible voters casting a ballot in the mayoral race, voter turnout is well below the record low in 2018 of 40.9 percent.
Despite the resounding win, the results also showed the limits of Tory’s influence. The mayor spent the final week of the election campaigning with challenger Siri Agrell and incumbents Mark Grimes and Frances Nunziata. Grimes and Agrell were both defeated on Monday, and Nunziata barely squeaked past challenger Chiara Padovani, winning by just 94 votes. Other Tory allies the Mayor campaigned with in Willowdale and Davenport were also defeated at the polls.
All told, 17 of the 18 incumbents, including Tory, were victorious on election night, furthering Toronto’s notoriety as the city with the worst incumbency advantage in North America. Amber Morley’s defeat of Mark Grimes was the only exception.
With many councillors choosing not to run for re-election—and one, Cynthia Lai, dying just days before election day—the number of new councillors at city hall will mean that this session of council will look very different from the last. At a pivotal moment in the city, the next four years in Toronto will be determined by the path Tory chooses, given his significant new “strong mayor” powers, and how this new council chooses to work with him or push against him.
Mayoral Race
Tory’s victory was widely expected. No high–profile candidates opposed him, there were only two debates throughout the campaign, and enthusiasm never coalesced around any of Tory’s 30 challengers.
The majority of Tory’s voter base was in the inner suburbs.
Gil Penalosa—the planning expert and the founder of the urbanist non-profit 8 80 Cities who ran an energetic campaign of progressive ideas—came in second place with less than 20 percent of the vote. That was below 2018’s second place finisher, Jennifer Keesmaat, who was supported by 24 percent of voters. Penalosa’s base was centred around Toronto’s progressive downtown core; in the outer reaches of the city, his support was down in the single digits.
Chloe Brown, a project coordinator at Future Skills Centre, finished third with 6 percent. No other mayoral candidate amassed more than two percent of the vote.
New Faces in City Council
With eight wards without an incumbent, this election represented a rare opportunity to bring new faces to a council that has long been far less diverse than the city it leads.
In total, seven new councillors were elected (and two former councillors, John Burnside and Vincent Crisanti, who had been defeated in previous elections were voted back into power). Those new faces will make city hall a far more diverse place than it was last session. Chris Moise, Ausma Malik, Lily Cheng, Alejandra Bravo, Jamaal Myers, and Amber Morley are all BIPOC councillors, pushing the city’s political representation to better reflect the city itself.
In Davenport and Willowdale, Tory’s endorsements didn’t prove to be enough. Alejandra Bravo, a community organizer and think tank director, won by nearly 60 percent over her competitor Grant Gonzales, a current government relations manager and former lobbyist. This is Bravo’s third run for municipal office, in addition to a 2021 provincial campaign. In Willowdale, Lily Cheng defeated Markus O’Brien Fehr, Tory’s favoured candidate.
Much of downtown Toronto will have new representation, after progressive councillors Kristyn Wong-Tam, Mike Layton, and Joe Cressy all chose not to run for re-election.
In Spadina-Fort York and Toronto Centre, new progressives have entered the ring, both with histories as school trustees.
Chris Moise won by 30 percent over his competitors in Toronto Centre. Moise was previously elected TDSB trustee in 2016, and was vice-chair of the board from 2017-19.
Spadina-Fort York was one of the most competitive races in the city, but had one of the lowest voter turnouts at 23 percent. Winner Ausma Malik, who has a non-profit background and was TDSB trustee from 2014-18, won with a 15 percent advantage over the runner-up.
In University-Rosedale, Dianne Saxe won by just 123 votes over Norm Di Pasquale, who had been endorsed by outgoing councillor Mike Layton. Saxe is an environmental lawyer who previously ran in the provincial election as part of the Green party.
Surprises and Tight Races
In one of the biggest turns of the night, Etobicoke-Lakeshore candidate Amber Morley—a young community advocate—defeated long-time incumbent Mark Grimes. Morley narrowly lost to Grimes last election, after a series of last-minute robocalls from Tory’s campaign in support of Grimes. This time she beat him despite Tory campaigning with Grimes in the closing days of the election.
In another rematch from 2018, York South-Weston councillor Frances Nunziata, the longest-serving member of council, narrowly defeated challenger Chiara Padovani, a social worker who was born the year Nunziata first took office.
Another long-time incumbent, Gord Perks, hung onto his seat in Parkdale-High Park, but was caught in a tight three-way race between community organizer Chemi Lhamo and former Tory staffer Siri Agrell. The ward had the highest voter turnout of any in the city, at 38 percent—though even that is a historic low compared to previous elections.
In Ward 21 — Scarborough Centre, long-serving councillor Michael Thompson was re-elected with more than 50 percent of the vote. In late September, news broke that Thompson had been charged with two counts of sexual assault. (Thompson has said he will plead not guilty). Those charges do not appear to have deterred voters at the polls.
After councillor Cynthia Lai’s shocking death just days before the election, voters in Ward 23 — Scarborough North went to the polls in a state of confusion. Lai’s name remained on the ballot, but voters were instructed at the polling stations of her death, and any votes cast for Lai in advance voting or via mail were discounted. Jamaal Myers, a lawyer and community organizer, won the race with over 50 percent of the vote.
Trustees
This year, there has been surprising controversy in the normally sleepy school trustee races. The race for Ward 3 school trustee in the secular French school board Viamonde was voided last week, after news emerged that neither of the candidates spoke French and one was ineligible to run. A similar controversy also voided the election for Ward 4 trustee in MonAvenir (the Catholic French school board). By-elections for both will be held at a later date. This means that there were no results to report for the five Toronto French school board races on election night: two were voided, and the other three were won by acclamation because the winners ran unchallenged.
In the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), 11 of 12 incumbents were re-elected. However, Alexander Brown, the TDSB chair, was narrowly defeated by challenger Weidong Pei. Pei is a dentist and dental professor who was running for the first time.
In the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), incumbent Joseph Martino held on by the slimmest of margin—just one vote—over Robert Pella, a candidate committed to “gospel values” and preventing government overreach.
All results are unofficial until the election has been certified, and may be subject to a recount.
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Toronto mayor failed to observe terms of Human Resources Management and Ethical Framework for Members' Staff
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Former Toronto mayor John Tory committed two cases of violations against the Code of Conduct for Members of Council during his days as the top official of the city, according to the city's integrity commissioner.
On Feb. 10, 2023, the same night he announced his intention to resign the office of Mayor, Tory requested that Jonathan Batty, integrity commissioner, investigate his conduct.
“My inquiry considered six issues and in two cases, I have found that Mr. Tory did violate the Code of Conduct for Members of Council (Code of Conduct),” said Batty.
Workplace romance
Tory’s first violation involved his romantic affair with a staffer identified in the report as “Ms. A”. The two began “a consensual personal relationship” in the summer of 2020 and continued until January 2023, according to the report.
Tory failed to observe the terms of the Human Resources Management and Ethical Framework for Members’ Staff and, therefore, violated Article XV (Failure to adhere to Council Policies and Procedures) of the code. This is because he did not:
disclose the relationship to the Office when it began in order to get advice.
contemporaneously document the measures being adopted to address the issue in the workplace.
seek advice from the Office with respect to the position upgrade provided Ms. A or what support he could provide her in seeking new employment.
respect the established reporting relationships in the Mayor’s Office so as to not isolate Ms. A.
give instruction or direction to his Chief of Staff, who was the person delegated responsibility for managing staff in the Mayor’s Office.
respect Ms. A’s right to confidentiality in the workplace and to obtain independent advice.
appreciate that the workplace, especially during the pandemic, extended beyond just being physically present in the Mayor’s Office at City Hall.
According to a previous survey by ADP Canada, one-third of Canadians are either romantically involved with a co-worker or have been in the past.
Bid for FIFA World Cup 2026
Tory also violated Article VIII (Improper Use of Influence) of the code of conduct with Toronto’s bid to participate in the FIFA World Cup 2026, said Batty.
From April 2021 onwards, Nick Eaves, the chief venues and operations officer of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), lobbied elected officials and City Officials on World Cup matters.
However, between April 2021 and August 2022, Ms. A reported to Mr. Eaves and was centrally involved in the steering committee supporting Toronto’s World Cup bid.
After Toronto learned in June 2022 that its World Cup bid was successful, the city manager returned to the city council in July 2022 and sought approval from the council to negotiate an exclusive contract with MLSE to provide some hosting services. The council, including Tory, voted to approve that recommendation.
Within a few weeks of that vote, MLSE offered Ms. A a permanent position.
“Ms. A’s value to MLSE improved once Council directed MLSE could be awarded an exclusive contract for event services, given Ms. A’s government relations and related operational expertise,” said Batty.
Tory claimed he had no conflict of interest arising from his relationship with Ms. A because the City of Toronto and MLSE were “on the same team” when it came to the World Cup. He was a co-chair of the planning and steering committees where Ms. A and other MLSE officials were included and knew Ms. A played an integral role in supporting the City’s World Cup bid.
“Applying the test under Article VIII (Improper Use of Influence), it is apparent that Mr. Tory violated this provision,” said Batty. “In the summer of 2022, when he was in a personal relationship with Ms. A, Mr. Tory voted on two matters at Council that would have [a] direct bearing on Ms. A’s employment at MLSE. Mr. Tory had a strong emotional bond to Ms. A.”
After being plagued with issues of worker safety in the 2022 edition of the World Cup, soccer’s international governing body FIFA looked to hire a CHRO for FIFA World Cup 2026.
No sanctions for Tory
In the end, Batty recommended that the council not sanction Tory.
“The penalties available to Council are suspension of a Member's remuneration or a reprimand of the Member,” he said.
“It is clearly not possible to suspend Mr. Tory's pay, he has left office. While it may be within the authority of council to reprimand a former Member, it is my view that reprimanding a person who requested I investigate their conduct as they resigned office would serve no purpose.”
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Toronto Mayor John Tory Just Hired The Guy Who Ran Canada’s Worst Anti-Immigrant Campaign, Again
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Toronto Mayor John Tory has reportedly re-hired campaign strategist Nick Kouvalis to help run his 2018 re-election campaign.
Bad enough Canada’s biggest city is heading towards a chaotic municipal election after Ontario Premier Doug Ford pulled a “tinpot dictator” move, vowing to remove half the seats from City Hall and redraw the city’s boundaries with no consultation only a few months before Toronto casts its votes.
Now Tory is set to introduce more chaos into the mix by bringing back on board the architect behind Rob Ford 2010 run for mayor and Kellie Leitch’s 2017 anti-immigrant campaign for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
The conservative pollster also tweeted Monday morning that his firm is now offering “election services” for candidates in “tough election campaigns” against progressive candidates:
While Kouvalis’ campaign role remains unclear, Tory’s decision to partner with him again is sure to raise questions – particularly since Tory likes to portray himself as a moderate, middle-of-the-road kind of mayor.
Kouvalis has had multiple run-ins with the law, most recently facing a break-and-enter charge after police found him “visibly intoxicated” inside a Hamilton-area Kelsey’s restaurant after hours in 2017. Charges were later dropped in a plea deal.
Last year, Tory publicly condemned Kouvalis for the divisive, anti-immigrant tone of Leitch’s leadership campaign, vowing he would never “engage in anything that divides people or causes people to be anxious about one another” as Kouvalis did.
But in the next breath, Tory refused to rule out re-hiring his “friend” Kouvalis in the future.
Considering Tory ran as the supposedly anti- Ford candidate in 2014 and is now again supposedly standing up to Premier Ford’s attack on local democracy, it seems strange that Tory would hire someone who Doug Ford calls “loyal” to the Fords.
Here’s a look back at Kouvalis’ greatest hits over the years:
Rob Ford’s 2010 mayoral campaign
As campaign manager, Kouvalis helped enable Rob Ford’s 2010 election as mayor and, after that, went on to serve as Mayor Ford’s chief-of-staff.
Ford’s mayoralty becomes the most divisive and destructive in Toronto’s history, culminating in serial corruption, dishonesty, and chaos.
One highlight from Kouvalis’ time as Ford’s campaign manager that would echo his later work includes the time Ford argued that Toronto, a multicultural city of immigrants, should halt immigration altogether:
“Right now we can’t even deal with the 2.5 million people in this city. I think it is more important to take care of people now before we start bringing in more people … It is going to be chaotic. We can’t even deal with the chaos we have now. I think we have to say enough’s enough.”
Kellie Leitch’s Conservative leadership campaign
Kouvalis was the architect of Leitch’s xenophobic campaign, which included a proposal to force immigrants to pass an ideological purity test for “Canadian values.”
The idea was so poorly thought through, anyone who shares the same opinions as Catholics or Conservative MPs would have been banned from immigrating to Canada.
Kouvalis later admitted it was part of a deliberate strategy to scapegoat immigrants to target voters nearing retirement age who feel like the system has become “unfair.”
Leitch’s campaign ended up being a big dud, coming in a distant seventh place.
Kouvalis also caused controversy by spreading false information and later boasting he had done so deliberately to “make the left go nuts.”
Kouvalis eventually resigned from the campaign after a late night Twitter meltdown that saw him accuse constitutional scholar Emmett Macfarlane of treason and denounced him as a “cuck” – a racially charged term popular among the alt-right.
Although Tory previously said he was open to giving Kouvalis another chance, it’s not clear Kouvalis ever learned his lesson.
Even during his time-out period, Kouvalis has still continued to associate with far-right fringe elements and amplified sentiments like “mass Muslim migration will destroy Canada as we know it”:.
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TORONTO — Toronto’s mayor resigned unexpectedly on Friday night after admitting to a relationship with a staff member.
John Tory made the announcement at a news conference several hours after receiving questions from The Toronto Star, which broke the story, about the relationship with a woman the newspaper said was a former employee of his office.
The relationship began during the pandemic and “ended by mutual consent earlier this year,” Mr. Tory said, calling the episode “a serious error in judgment.”
“It came at a time when Barb, my wife of 40-plus years, and I were enduring many lengthy periods apart while I carried out my responsibilities during the pandemic,” he said.
Mr. Tory said he had alerted the city’s integrity commissioner of the relationship for review, and would work with senior staff members, including Jennifer McKelvie, Toronto’s deputy mayor, on a transition “in the coming days.”
Michael Thompson, the previous deputy mayor, a largely ceremonial post, resigned last fall after facing sexual assault charges.
A lawyer by training and a former leader of Ontario’s Conservative Party, Mr. Tory was elected in 2014 as mayor of Toronto, Canada’s largest city. He succeeded Rob Ford, who was stripped of most of his power, but refused to resign, after he confessed to smoking crack cocaine. Mr. Ford began treatment for malignant liposarcoma, a rare cancer, in 2014 and died in 2016 at age 46.
Following four tumultuous years of Mr. Ford, who was criticized for a lack of civility at City Hall, Mr. Tory ushered in a period of stability, albeit with a mixed record. He promoted ambitious transit plans in his campaigns that critics say have fallen short in delivery, and successfully lobbied the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, for “strong mayor” powers. That measure, effective first in Toronto and Ottawa but later to be rolled out elsewhere in the province, gives mayors more sway over the city budget, as well as expanded power to pass or veto city bylaws.
Mr. Tory did not take questions from reporters on Friday.
“I deeply regret having to step away from a job that I love in a city that I love even more,” he said. “I’m deeply sorry, and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto.”
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Torontonians are heading back to the polls to elect a new mayor less than four months after the last municipal election.
John Tory, the 65th mayor of Canada's largest city, announced his plan to resign in the coming days after revealing on Friday evening that he was involved in an affair with a member of his office staff.
So, what happens next?
Speaking to CP24 after Tory's stunning announcement, municipal lawyer John Mascarin said Tory has to formally file a formal notice of resignation with the city clerk to kick start the process of choosing his successor.
On Saturday morning, the city confirmed that Tory had not yet submitted a resignation letter.
It is unclear at this time when Tory intends to do that. But after he does, Mascarin said city council will have to declare the office of the mayor vacant during its next meeting under the City of Toronto Act.
That could happen as soon as next Wednesday when councillors convene for a special meeting to debate the 2023 budget.
"When it does that, that's when the vacancy occurs. And that starts the time clock running for council to then pass a bylaw to say we're going to hold a by-election," Mascarin said.
He noted that under the new strong mayor legislation, the City of Toronto and the City of Ottawa are required to hold a by-election to fill the mayor's seat.
"The City of Toronto has no option to just appoint someone," Mascarin said. While the mayor's seat is vacant, Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie will temporarily assume the duties of the office.
"What's going to happen is her executives (are) going to meet, and they are going to make sure that everything is put in place for this extraordinary situation where she's going to have to take the ship's wheel right now and steer through," Mascarin said.
"So that's what she signed up for. And that's what she was appointed to do as deputy mayor."
After a by-election is called, the next step is for the city clerk will to set a date when candidates can file their nomination papers, according to the Municipal Elections Act.
Election day would take place 45 days after nomination day.
As for residents wondering if day-to-day operations like garbage collection and snow plowing will be affected by the resignation of the mayor, Mascarin said those will continue running.
However, Tory's departure comes at a critical time in the city as this year's budget has not been passed. With the mayor solely responsible for the budget, it is to be seen what will happen to Tory's proposal, which includes a contentious increase in the police's budget.
"You're going to actually have a ship that's a little bit rudderless," Mascarin said.
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2023-02-11T10:24:51-05:00
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JOHN Tory, mayor of Toronto, Canada, has announced his resignation after admitting an affair with a former employee.Tory, 68, issued a press conferenc
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JOHN Tory, mayor of Toronto, Canada, has announced his resignation after admitting an affair with a former employee.
Tory, 68, issued a press conference on Friday to address the revelations of a relationship with a 31-year-old female aide that started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The situation was first made public by reports from the Toronto Star.
The Toronto mayor said that the affair had "ended mutually by consent this year."
"I am deeply sorry, and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all of those hurt by my actions," Tory said in his statement.
"Most of all, I apologize to my wife, Barb, and to my family who I've let down more than anyone else."
Tory and his wife have reportedly been married for 40 years, per Fox News.
The 68-year-old was elected mayor of the prominent Canadian city in 2014.
He was then re-elected in 2018, and again last year.
Tory was born in Toronto and grew up in a family with a successful law firm in the city.
His father, John, worked at Torys Law Firm but also served on the board of directors for Rogers Communications.
After completing high school and getting a law degree during the 1970s, Tory worked for radio stations owned by Rogers Communications before he got into politics.
From there, he allegedly wavered in and out of politics through the 1980s.
In the 1990s, he even served as the commissioner of the Canadian Football League before getting back into politics once again.
During his first run in 2014 for mayor, Tory ran against and defeated Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who released a statement this morning on Twitter about the resignation.
"John will be remembered as a dedicated and hard-working mayor who served as a steady leader during the most difficult days of the pandemic," Ford said.
"I will miss working with him … I wish nothing but the best for my friend in the days, weeks, and months ahead.”
Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie will allegedly fill Tory's position for the time being, but because of a new act the city passed in September 2022, a byelection will likely be held.
It is said to take place within 60 days after “a declaration of vacancy is made.”
This means there's a possibility for a newly elected mayor this spring for Toronto citizens.
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The man who made this mayoral election possible, in the sense of necessary, is John Tory. For a moment, he seemed to truly vanish into a noble quest to “rebuild” his family’s trust. (Though they’re full-grown and mightn’t have exactly needed him 24/7 for that). Then this — bam! He’s back.
First, the deputy mayor he left in charge, Jennifer McKelvie, who promised to stay out of the election, endorses Ana Bailão, who was also Tory’s deputy mayor, before she fled to the corporate sector till Tory’s job came open. Then, when that proved ineffective, came leaks saying Tory himself would endorse, and the endorsement.
Tory said he did it because people were coming up to him on the street asking about the race — some of them perhaps managers of Bailao’s failing campaign. Tory’s weird twin, Doug Ford (yes, a bit like Schwarzenegger and Danny de Vito) vowed to stay out of the campaign too, then this week said he’d vote for Mark Saunders, our ex-top cop, who also quit early to “put his family first,” no further explanations.
Ford added in his witless way that we could “vote for whoever you want.” Thanks for that. Next day, having said he wouldn’t endorse anyone, he endorsed Saunders. Why? Because Olivia Chow as mayor would be an “unmitigated disaster” — the kind of term my dad used when he didn’t know what unmitigated meant but wanted to sound well read.
So now we’re getting to it. Tory and Ford can’t bear the thought of someone — Chow — in charge at city hall who they don’t have their hooks into.
Poor, underperforming John Tory. He botched his public roles as leader of Ontario’s PCs and mayor of Toronto. He did himself no favours as head of Rogers Communications, likely the most hated company in Canada. The one role he shone in was commissioner of the Canadian Football League, an unglamorous gig but he saved us from a fate in the NFL and the CFL does continue to limp along. It’s a legacy.
How Poilievre lost his smirk
A day after Monday’s four byelections, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre rose in question period and did not smirk. I hadn’t known that was possible. It seemed the most authentic thing about him though, as often happens, I didn’t fully realize it till it wasn’t there. The little upturns at the ends of his mouth followed by the mocking, derisive voice that seemed born from the smirk. It was the clearest sign the Tories themselves felt they’d lost the previous day’s elections, long-winded punditry notwithstanding.
Did the caucus tell him to can it? Or staff? That the disdain that played well to the Alberta base and the convoy crowd was unproductive in broader electoral contexts. His shift to smirkless was fairly seamless; who knew he even had another face to put on. But it left the question of how effective a sneer-free Poilievre will be. By Wednesday the smirk had started to wriggle back in.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s equivalent to the smirk is an irritating high school drama teacher’s inflated vocals, as if trying to force you to acknowledge how sincere he is, rather than letting you decide yourself. He seemed to drop it briefly, when Poilievre did. For a moment they looked like two exhausted touring actors slumped side by side taking off their makeup after the show.
Boris Johnson’s finest hour
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson resigned and won’t run again. Many supporters told him to do so “for his own dignity” but, to his credit, he rejected that, saying, “Dignity is a grossly overrated commodity.” It was a brilliant, even dazzling, exit line.
The point and genius of his career has been to endear himself by lampooning the kind of false dignity that has bamboozled their entire society, culminating in the idiocy of their royalty obsessions and his own ludicrous, pointless ascent to PM. He pulled back the curtain on those self-damaging delusions. It almost redeems him.
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Toronto elected a new mayor on Monday, with businessman and longtime civic activist John Tory replacing the controversial and scandal-plagued Mayor Rob Ford. Tory has promised a return to normal life for Canada's largest city.
Tory currently has 40 percent of the vote in the count, according to CBC News, followed by city councilman Doug Ford — Rob Ford's brother — with 34 percent; in third place is Olivia Chow, a major name in Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, with 23 percent. This surprisingly close results may yet widen for Tory, as the polls had tended to show him with a somewhat stronger lead over Doug Ford.
Rob Ford is not gone, though — he easily won election to his old seat on the city council. Ford dropped out of the mayoral race in September in order to deal with a health crisis that turned out to be a diagnosis of cancer. His brother Doug, who had held the seat on the city council, agreed to run for mayor in his place.
Still, this brings to a close Rob Ford's tumultuous four-year tenure as mayor. In the latter part of his term, Ford gained worldwide infamy for his drug abuse and a recent stay in rehab — plus a variety of other outlandish behavior such as knocking over a city councilwoman and a reported audio recording which he used a variety of racial and ethnic slurs.
Tory ran for mayor in 2003 as the main center-right candidate, losing that race to a left-leaning opponent. He later shifted to provincial politics as the leader of Ontario's Conservatives, representing the party's moderate wing. During this race Tory positioned himself a centrist candidate — contrasted with the Ford brothers as right-wing populists, and Chow on the left — winning the support of many people in both the Conservative and center-left Liberal camps, plus a large section of the business community.
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Press Release courtesy of the City of Toronto–Mayor John Tory will lead a film mission to Los Angeles next week to help deepen relationships with established studios producing in Toronto, and those that have not yet brought productions to the city.
This is the first in-person mission to Los Angeles since 2019. Mayor Tory made the announcement alongside Deputy Mayor Michael Thompson (Scarborough Centre), and Councillors Paula Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth) and James Pasternak (York Centre).
Plans for the mission were announced in Downsview, on the future site of a major new film and television production hub being built by Hackman Capital Partners and operated by The MBS Group. The studio complex will anchor a much larger innovation-themed district featuring high-tech, creative industries, housing, parks and vibrant public spaces, which are being master-planned by Northcrest Developments.
The Mayor’s Mission to Los Angeles is a collaborative public- and private-sector initiative, with support from all sectors of Toronto’s industry, including studio owners, unions, post-production companies, equipment suppliers, financiers, hoteliers and educators.
The more than 50 delegates travelling on the mission will carry one shared message in support of Toronto as a top production destination of choice. During the last Mayor’s Mission in 2019, the Mayor and delegates sought the views of existing and prospective film industry clients on how Toronto can be an even more competitive home for their productions. The upcoming Mission will report back on how the City of Toronto has responded to their feedback.
Beyond sharing the Toronto story, the Mission will report on the progress made addressing some industry concerns including:
Increasing studio space: Between now and 2026, studio space in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) will grow from 3.7 million square feet to 6.2 million square feet – an increase of 68 per cent.
Growing the workforce and prioritizing diversity: Informed by The Toronto Screen Industry Workforce Study, the City has been working with union and industry partners, along with community groups, to co-design and offer innovative programs for practical and durable pathways into the industry, with a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusion.
Prioritizing green production infrastructure: The City will soon begin the installation of power-drops, strategically installed in areas frequently used for base camps, with the potential to save 400 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year. The City is also part of Ontario Green Screen, launched by the Ontario Film Commission.
Tax Credit Stability: Credits for filming have remained stable, and they are a critical asset in maintaining Toronto’s competitiveness.
As a further, critical support to the industry, the City has earmarked almost 10 acres of City-owned waterfront land for a studio build. Hackman Capital Partners and The MBS Group were the winning bidders.
The Mayor’s Mission to Los Angeles is sponsored by 1 Hotel, ACTRA-Toronto, Bank of Montreal, BDP Quadrangle, Cinespace Film Studios, Company3, DGC-Ontario, Dufferin Gate Studios, Eastside Studios, Entertainment Partners Canada, FilmOntario, IATSE Local 411, IATSE Local 873, MBSE-Canada, Media One Creative, NABET 700-M UNIFOR, National Bank of Canada, Nieuport Aviation, Northcrest Developments, Ontario Creates, Panavision, Pinewood Toronto Studios, RBC, Rocket Science VFX, Sheridan SIRT, SPINVFX, Starline Trailers, The Stratagem Studios, Studio 550, William F. White International Inc., Wiseacre Inc. and York University.
Toronto has had two consecutive years of record-breaking production volume, with 2020 and 2021 totalling almost $5 billion. Toronto has one of the largest screen-based industries in North America, employing more than 35,000 people. More information about the screen production industry in Toronto, including planned productions through this spring and summer, is available at Toronto.ca/film.
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“This mission is about securing investment and jobs in Toronto. Our city’s film and TV sector is thriving and growing at an expansive rate, and while we have many productions and numbers to be proud of, I am always looking for more investments in our city. This is particularly important as we move ahead in our reopening efforts. We have a great story to tell here in Toronto backed by a remarkable group of talented partners including unions, developers and much more who all share the same goal of building up the sector further. We have worked to make progress to help increase industry investments here including expanding studio space, growing our diverse talent pool, focusing on green production infrastructure and tax credit stability. I look forward to working with all of our partners to continue to grow the screen industry in Toronto.”
– Mayor John Tory
“Our film, television and digital industry is an important economic driver for Toronto. Projects from Los Angeles combined with local production to employ more than 35,000 local workers and register a record-breaking production volume of $2.5 billion in 2021. We are confident that this business mission to LA will continue to add fuel to the unprecedented growth of our screen industry.”
– Deputy Mayor Michael Thompson (Scarborough Centre), Chair of the Economic and Community Development Committee
“With 2021 being another record year for the Toronto screen industry, I’m looking forward to our L.A. business mission and the opportunity to help the industry continue to flourish in Toronto.”
– Councillor Paula Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth), Chair of the Film, Television and Digital Media Advisory Board
“During the 2019 L.A. mission, clients asked for expanded studio space in Toronto, which we delivered on. The continued growth of Toronto’s film industry including studio space even through the pandemic shows the opportunities for further expansion. That’s why I’m delighted that a 10-acre studio build will be coming to York Centre, which Hackman Capital Partners and The MBS Group are projected to complete and occupy by 2025.”
– Councillor James Pasternak (York Centre)
“York University is proud to join our industry colleagues in taking the message of Toronto as a world class and growing production jurisdiction to our clients in Los Angeles. By bringing together every segment of the industry, and traveling there together with one message, we demonstrate the collective power of our production community in an extraordinary way.”
– Ken Rogers, Director of the York University Motion Media Studio at Cinespace and Academic Director of the MBA Program in Arts Media and Entertainment at The Schulich School of Business
“We are grateful to the Mayor and other stakeholders for their collaborative spirit and strong, ongoing support of the Downsview and Basin Media Hub developments, as we further our deep commitment to Toronto’s film and television production industry. Toronto is already an economic hub for Canada’s creative economy and a leading destination for global content creators. These state-of-the-art studios will significantly increase the city’s capacity for film and television production to meet the industry’s surging demands.”
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In late September I sat down with John Tory and asked him some questions about his campaign. The Toronto native was elected Toronto’s Mayor on October 27, 2014.
1. What legacy do you want to be remembered by if you are elected mayor?
I want to build SmartTrack to get Toronto Back on Track. Building 22 transit stops in Toronto and providing better transit for Torontonians is a legacy I would be proud to have.
2. What is the first thing you will do when you arrive at City Hall?
The first thing I will do at City Hall is get council working together again and focus on important infrastructure projects in the city. The provincial and federal governments have both agreed to build the Scarborough subway, and I will to work with them to achieve this.
3. Do you have any advice for aspiring politicians?
Get involved – I first got involved in politics at a young age through canvassing for a local candidate and have learned so much through a variety of roles. The best way to understand what goes into a campaign and getting elected is to start now. There are many ways to be civically engaged; I encourage you to get involved in any way you can.
4. What has been a highlight of the campaign? Have there been any disappointments or surprises?
Every day there are surprises along the way. The best moments for me have been when I am out meeting voters and hearing about how they, too, want Toronto Back on Track. I love hearing that my ideas are resonating with voters and when people are excited about the election. We have a great team on the campaign, and I love going out with such a great group of volunteers. I encourage anyone looking to get involved to come out and hear what people are saying. Campaigning is a lot of fun and a great way to get to know Toronto.
5. Why should we elect you as our mayor?
I have a positive vision to get Toronto Back on Track. My SmartTrack plan will bring 22 new transit stops in just 7 years, which will help relieve congestion and bring transit relief that is desperately needed. This will make a huge difference to [our youth’s] future in Toronto. You will now be able to choose to live in one part of the city and have an easy way to get to work in another part. It will help bring jobs and growth to Toronto, which is important for the future of the city.
6. What differentiates you from other candidates?
I think the main difference between me and the other candidates is the fact that I have a vision and I will work with City Council and the other levels of government to get things done. I have a good long-standing working relationship with both the Provincial and Federal governments. Galvanizing big projects in Toronto requires engaging and working with all three levels of government. I am the only candidate who is able to say I can work with both governments to get moving on the things important to our city. Without the City Council working together in the past four years, we have seen what can happen. It is crucial to have a leader who can bring people together for the best interests of Toronto.
7. What is an issue that has affected you personally, and why do you want to change this issue?
The issue of inequality between different neighborhoods in our city is an issue that is very important to me. I believe that many areas in our city need to have a stronger voice in government to help them move forward with the rest of Toronto. We need to be One Toronto and that is something I am committed to working on to help those less fortunate in our city.
8. If you had an unlimited budget what would you do?
I want to help fix the state of transit. We should have been building a transit stop every year to keep up with the growth of our city. We have a lot of catching up to do, especially in certain parts of the city, such as Scarborough. There are many transit projects that have been talked about that would be great to get started on. Unfortunately, with tough budget limitations, we can’t start building all of them right away. I have decided to prioritize SmartTrack in order to bring real transit relief.
9. What will be the most difficult part of your job as mayor?
There have been so many good ideas discussed in this election and there are many things I would like to accomplish. My main priority will be SmartTrack. I believe it will make a big difference to a large number of Torontonians. There are, however, other projects we need to consider as well. We will have to think carefully about how to balance all the competing priorities in the city.
10. What political leader in history do you admire the most?
The political leader I admire the most is former Premier Bill Davis. He was a mentor of mine and a great Premier for our province.
11. Ms Stinz, Mr. Rob Ford and Mr. Soknacki have recently quit the mayoral race. Has this affected your strategy or changed the way you are approaching election day?
I am focused on my positive message to get Toronto Back on Track, so my strategy has not changed with candidates leaving the race. My team and I campaign every day as if we are 5 points behind in the polls and are focused on our strategies to get us to Election Day.
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Political analysts say John Tory's recently disclosed affair with a former staffer and resulting resignation as mayor of Toronto have brought a blowout ending to the straight-laced, button down moderate conservative's otherwise uneventful tenure in the city's top job.
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John Tory's recently disclosed affair with a former staffer and resulting resignation as mayor of Toronto have brought a blowout ending to the straight-laced, button down moderate conservative's otherwise uneventful tenure in the city's top job.
Tory honed that reputation over the course of his business and broadcasting careers, as well as two relatively drama free terms he served at City Hall. The third mandate he easily secured in October's municipal election seemed to promise more of the same, but those hopes came crashing down on Friday evening.
That night, Tory stunned the city he'd led for more than eight years when he admitted to having an "inappropriate relationship" with a former member of his staff and abruptly announced plans to step down.
Tory originally promised to only run for two terms and could have left public life in the fall respected by people across the political spectrum, said Zachary Taylor, an associate professor at Western University's political science department. Instead, he decided to run for a third term -- a decision Taylor said has now placed his legacy in a very different light.
"He has admitted to doing something that is very much contrary to his image as a squeaky clean, ethically clean mayor who never raises his voice, never does things that are unreasonable," said Taylor.
"He had this image of being the only grown up in the room while council squabbled around him. Now we've seen that image kind of blow up."
Tory leaves behind 'unfinished business'
Tory's whole raison d'etre was stable, calm leadership with no drama following the scandal-plagued mayoralty of his predecessor Rob Ford, said Peter Graefe, an associate professor of political science at McMaster University. In contrast, Tory was "internationally presentable" and gave the sense he was actually managing files at city hall, he said.
But Graefe said the surprising nature of Tory's departure will likely cast a shadow over his time in office.
"It's really hard to say, 'here is the achievements of John Tory over almost a decade in power,"' said Graefe. "Instead it's much more someone who's leaving under a cloud and leaving a lot of unfinished business for the next mayor and Toronto city council to pick up."
When Tory launched his first mayoral bid in 2014, he ran on a platform of change, a transit vision for the city and low taxes. Graefe said Tory has kept the line on the city budget and taxes, but at the expense of affordability, high housing costs and aging infrastructure.
"There's a sense of unhappiness that Toronto is not the place to live in that it used to be, that it's a dirtier city, that it's a more dangerous city," he said.
Tory was also "pretty clueless" in his responses to issues of race related to carding and policing of racialized Torontonians, Graefe said.
WATCH | Tory says he will step down after admitting affair with former staffer:
Criticisms mounted in recent weeks over Tory's announcement of a proposed $48.3-million increase to the city's police budget. The boost would bring funding to just over $1.1 billion for 2023, a figure Tory's critics said was grossly inflated compared to other line items and underfunded social services.
"Given Toronto's kind of super diversity, we might have expected a leader who could have avoided some unnecessary conflicts on that by showing a greater IQ in terms of the nature of those relationships in Toronto," Graefe said. "That is another more difficult part of his legacy."
But regardless of the many negative things people have had to say about Tory, Graefe noted he was elected with little opposition in the past two municipal campaigns.
"He was seen as a good steward of public finances ... In certain parts of the city the idea of being tough on the homeless and tough on crime was reassuring."
"You could see why he was maybe not a popular mayor, but he was a mayor people were willing to continue to vote for, at least in the absence of a serious contender."
Tory not known as 'compassionate heart,' activist says
But those policies were the opposite of reassuring for longtime street nurse Cathy Crowe, who said she's witnessed homelessness double since before the COVID-19 pandemic as well as continued forceful encampment evictions.
"I don't think in most circles (Tory's) known exactly as a strong, compassionate heart, if you will," she said.
Gil Penalosa, who lost the mayoral race in October's municipal election after only securing 18 per cent of the vote compared to Tory's more than 60 per cent, announced Saturday he will run again once a byelection is called to replace him.
Penalosa said Tory will be remembered as a hard worker who was committed to reshaping the city's image, but one that failed on issues of equity, affordability and climate change.
"I don't evaluate him based on the goals that I have because they're very different, but I think he tried to do the best he could according to the things that he wanted to do," said Penalosa.
The progressive urbanist invited Toronto residents not to dwell on Tory's legacy, or even the past few days, and instead be optimistic and focus on a radically different future.
"He resigned, he did something negative. He's gone now," said Penalosa. "Let's see this as an opportunity and not as a barrier."
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Questions remain about what lies ahead for Toronto following the abrupt resignation of mayor John Tory on Friday night.
The two-term mayor, who had just been re-elected to a third stint in office in October, stepped down over what he described as an inappropriate relationship with a former member of his office staff.
Tory offered few details about the affair during a hastily called Friday night news conference, only saying it had developed during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended by mutual consent earlier this year.
The unnamed employee is now working at another job.
Tory says he's working with senior city staff and Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie to ensure a smooth transition, but has not formally named his interim successor.
Provincial legislation states a byelection will need to take place within 60 days of the mayor's office officially becoming vacant to name a permanent replacement.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford thanked Tory, whom he called a friend, for his years of public service including his time in the city's top job.
"John will be remembered as a dedicated and hard-working mayor who served as a steady leader during the most difficult days of the pandemic," Ford said in a statement Saturday morning.
"He united Toronto behind an optimistic vision for the future and I will miss working with him to see it come to life. I wish nothing but the best for my friend in the days, weeks and months ahead."
Tory told reporters late Friday he notified the Office of the Integrity Commissioner of the relationship and asked him to review it, saying he believes it is important to avoid tarnishing the mayoral office or putting City Hall through a prolonged period of controversy over what he describes as an error in judgment on his part.
Tory served two scandal-free terms as mayor of Toronto and had just been re-elected for a third in October.
He thanked the people of Toronto for trusting him as mayor, a position he called "the job of a lifetime.''
"I believe I did some good for the city I truly love, particularly during the pandemic,'' he said.
He said the relationship with the employee developed while he was spending long periods of time away from his wife Barbara, to whom he has been married for over 40 years.
"I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part,'' Tory said at city hall, where he apologized "unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all those hurt by my actions including my staff, my colleagues and the public service.''
He said he was stepping down as mayor in order to reflect on his mistakes and focus on rebuilding trust with his family.
He asked for privacy for all affected by his actions, including his wife, family and himself.
Tory, 68, was first elected mayor in 2014, partially on a promise to restore respectability to the office following the scandal-plagued tenure of his predecessor Rob Ford.
He secured a second mandate in 2018 and cruised to a third term in October after a campaign that saw him tout his years of experience as head of Canada's most populous city.
He secured about 62 per cent of the vote compared to 18 per cent for progressive urbanist Gil Penalosa, who came second. Tory beat out 30 mostly unknown candidates after many criticized his record on transit and housing _ two issues he had highlighted as priorities.
In a tweet late Friday night, Penalosa said "now Torontonians have a chance to elect better.''
Tory's most recent election win came as he faced criticism about the state of Toronto under his leadership. His opponents noted the high cost of housing, aging infrastructure, overflowing garbage bins and shuttered parks.
His leadership saw increased scrutiny in recent weeks over his announcement of a proposed $48.3-million increase to the city's police budget, which would bring police funding to just over $1.1 billion for 2023 _ a figure Tory's critics said was grossly inflated compared to other line items and underfunded social services.
Tory also saw criticism for his handling of the city's housing crisis, as thousands of people are experiencing homelessness and Toronto's shelter capacity is stretched to its limits.
Just this week, Toronto city council scrapped a recommendation to keep its warming centres open around the clock until mid-April after a bout of extreme cold, as well as to declare a public health crisis over lack of shelter space. With support from Tory, council voted instead to call for more federal support and have staff study the idea further.
Kristyn Wong-Tam, a former Toronto city councillor who often disagreed with Tory's positions and current member of the Ontario legislature, issued a tweet calling Tory's affair with a staffer "not a simple, one-time lapse of judgment," but "an abuse of power."
Toronto city council is set to debate Tory's proposed budget at a Wednesday meeting. It will be the first under new so-called strong mayor powers granted to Toronto by the province, which Tory had said he would use in a limited and responsible way.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 11, 2023.
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Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday February 15, 2023
John Tory, amid scandal, will lead Toronto’s budget debate
Toronto is about to have one tense budget meeting Wednesday.
John Tory, who announced last Friday night he’s stepping down as mayor following an extramarital affair with a staffer who used to work in his office, will preside over the meeting.
Tory’s presence in the chamber will be controversial. If he does, in fact, tender his resignation after passing the city’s $16-billion operating budget, he creates a situation where he will set the city on a specific course but won’t be there to deal with any potential fallout.
One can also argue Tory should be present for the debate because, thanks to the “strong mayor” powers he asked Ontario’s government to grant him, he is responsible for designing this budget. He is its champion.
Nobody really knows how this debate will go. This will be the first budget passed with the new strong mayor powers in place, which changes the dynamic because Tory can now veto any amendments, something that would then trigger a whole new chain of events.
There’s growing speculation about a political push for Tory to stay or run again in the very byelection his resignation could trigger. On Monday night, many Torontonians reported getting a robocall that included the question: “Would you support John Tory running in a mayoral byelection in 2023?”
Tory’s office said it is not connected with that polling.
Tory is proposing a property tax hike higher than Torontonians have been used to under his term (a 5.5 per cent increase) and will use that money, in part, to spend $48 million more on police. “The budget makes key investments in housing, transit, and community safety,” his office said.
Critics have focused on what’s not in it, including funding for 24/7 warming shelters, enough cash to keep transit fares from rising while the TTC struggles to get riders back on the system.
There may even be questions about police spending, after CBC Toronto published this story about the service’s $337,000 podcast.
With his “strong mayor” powers he only needs the support of one-third of council. At this point, he almost certainly still enjoys the support of eight councillors.
Practically, Toronto’s budget is all about livability.
The decisions council makes affect everything from the state of the roads (pretty rough at the moment) to public library hours to whether or not there’s a bathroom open at the park during winter months — and yes, the latter did spark a major debate at city hall.
There’s also the huge question of whether or not the city will do enough and spend enough to start tackling the housing affordability crisis.
This budget also features what Tory’s been calling a “COVID hangover” that’s created a financial crunch that the city needs the provincial and federal governments to help deal with. Tory and city council have recently launched yet another review of potential “revenue tools” — aka taxes, aka levies — that might bring in most cash in future years. (CBC)
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday October 26, 2022
New Mayor, Strong Mayor?
Some said the race to become Hamilton’s next mayor was hers to lose from the outset.
And indeed Andrea Horwath took charge of her political destiny, winning a close race to become the first woman to wear the chain of office in the city.
Horwath pulled out the victory over main rival Keanin Loomis, who traded the lead as votes trickled in throughout the evening. Bob Bratina finished a distant third.
“Hamiltonians deserve to have a city that they know they can trust what’s happening at city hall,” she told a jubilant crowd of supporters downtown at The Spice Factory.
She thanked Loomis, Bratina and other candidates. “We do not agree on everything, but we all love this city.”
Horwath finished with 59,216 or 42 per cent of the vote, while Loomis was runner-up with 57,553 or 41 per cent. Bratina garnered 17,436 and 12 per cent.
The former Ontario NDP leader and Hamilton Centre MPP expressed gratitude to voters. “We all believe in the same thing: We believe in Hamilton.” (The Hamilton Spectator)
Meanwhile, Ontario’s big city mayors elected to a new term in office may soon have enhanced powers at their disposal to tackle tough issues like housing.
But experts say the use of so-called “strong mayor” powers may not be clear-cut, and their use may be limited by budgetary constraints and other factors.
Housing was a major election theme in municipal campaigns across the province, particularly related to affordability.
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government recently passed a law giving mayors of Toronto and Ottawa veto power over bylaws that conflict with provincial priorities like housing, and Premier Doug Ford says the powers will be extended to other cities in a year.
Monday night’s municipal election results mean Ford could be extending those powers to former foes in provincial politics, with former leaders of the NDP and Liberals elected as the mayors of Hamilton and Vaughan, respectively.
McMaster University political scientist Peter Graefe says it will be interesting to see how different municipalities use the strong mayor powers depending on local pressures on councils and from voters. (CTV News)
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Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday December 18, 2021
Toronto city council votes to help fight Quebec’s Bill 21 in court after Brampton calls for support
Toronto city council unanimously voted in support of helping to fund a legal fight against Quebec’s law restricting religious symbols Thursday, after Brampton called on other Canadian cities to join in the initiative.
John Tory, the mayor of Canada’s largest city, said in a tweet he would put the request to council Thursday, repeating that both he and city council have repeatedly voiced opposition to Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21.
On Thursday, city council unanimously voted in favour of the motion to reaffirm the city’s opposition to the bill. City council will also contribute $100,000 to support the joint legal challenge to the bill being brought by the National Council of Canadian Muslims, the World Sikh Organization and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
“Today, city council made it very clear that Toronto stands with municipalities from across Canada in opposition to Bill 21 and in support of the legal challenge against this bill,” Tory said in a news release Thursday.
“We cannot simply stand by as Torontonians and Canadians and see a law like this diminish the protection and respect accorded religious and other basic freedoms by our Canadian Charter of Rights of Freedoms.”
He also encouraged other cities to join the fight to “uphold the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”
Tory was adding his voice to an initiative from Brampton city council, which also voted Wednesday to contribute $100,000 to challenging the Quebec law and encouraged other cities to donate.
Adopted in June 2019, Bill 21 prohibits the wearing of religious symbols such as hijabs, kippas and turbans by teachers and other government employees deemed to be in positions of authority. Debate over the law was revived this month with news that a teacher in Chelsea, Que., had been reassigned because of her hijab.
Brampton calls itself one of the most diverse communities in Canada and says it wants to show its support for what diversity brings to local communities and Canada as a whole.
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown calls Bill 21 discriminatory and says freedom of religion is a fundamental principle that must be upheld.
Since Brown called on other cities to get involved, several communities across the country have indicated their support for his initiative and will put requests for funding to their respective councils.
By late Wednesday afternoon, the motion had already won the support of Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek. (CBC)
The Writ Drops
The coming provincial election promises to be an interesting one. At Queen’s Park, Premier Kathleen Wynne has controlled the levers of an unpopular government since 2013, that, combined with 10 years of Dalton McGuinty’s tenure, adds up to 15 years of rule by Ontario Liberals. The projected net debt is at an all time high of $325 billion (compared with $138 billion when Liberals assumed power in 2003). The debt to GDP ratio is approaching 40%. Hydro costs have ballooned under the Liberals, and despite efforts to tackle emergency ward wait times, hospitals continue to be overcrowded. Falling grades are indicating a decline in Ontario’s education, and transit projects aren’t keeping pace with congested 400 series highways. The combined corruption storms resulting from the McGuinty years regarding gas plant emails, and the Sudbury by-election bribery case haven’t helped matters for the current Liberal leader.
The election results of 2014 clearly showed that voters were intent on forgiving the Liberals for their many misdeeds and confident its new leader Kathleen Wynne would build the trust and good government that had been lost in the dying years of McGuinty’s reign. Ontario voters even rewarded the new leader with a majority victory in 2014, after slapping the previous one down with a slim minority. This is often forgotten in the current #metoo climate when supporters of Kathleen Wynne deal the misogyny and homophobe cards to explain her dreary popularity numbers.
Polls consistently show that voters are done with Kathleen Wynne (ranked as the least popular Premier in Canada), and indeed the Liberal government in Ontario. To answer this, the Liberal Party platform is chock-a-block full of big spending progressive (NDPesque) promises for child care, health care, senior support, and dental and pharmacare. Despite the efforts, the mood among comment boards, call-in shows, and letters to the editor, seem to be very much about “throwing the bums out”. If, at this point the Liberal’s defeat is quite certain, then the question of who wins and by how much remains to be answered.
Andrea Horwath enters her 3rd provincial election leading the NDP with poll numbers matching the governing Liberals. After attempting to make her party more palatable to centrist and Liberal Party voters in 2014, while outraging the most leftie members in the process, she has steered the party back to its traditional NDP position with campaign promises embracing free dental care, free tuition, and undoing Kathleen Wynne’s privatization of Hydro.
As big spending platforms rule the day on the left with the Liberals and NDP, the Doug Ford PCs are the very opposite. Even with no platform to run on the Tories are banking on poll numbers that are 15% plus above the numbers of either competitor. They are assumed to be the winning player in the game to take power back, to trumpet fiscal prudence, reining in spending, cutting away public services, and doling out incentives to business’ and wealthy folk.
Hastily assuming the leadership of the PCs beset by scandal and malaise under Patrick Brown, Doug Ford seems to have used populist energy to recharge a party lacking confidence in direction. With new leadership comes learning, and based on the amount of sloganeering dished out by Doug Ford, and an increasingly obvious dearth in policy expertise, or even knowledge (i.e.: how a bill becomes law), it’s becoming evident by the day that the presumptive Premier requires a steep learning curve to adequately prepare himself for the top job. It’s merely a matter of time before we find out if Doug Ford just managed to be the right person at the right time, no matter how uninformed he proves himself to be.
At this point there’s no betting on who will be in charge at the pink palace after June 7, 2018. The PCs may now be riding high in the polls, but its leader is just one gaffe away from throwing the party’s support away in the same way John Tory did with faith based schools, or Tim Hudak did with his one million jobs gimmick. What is predictable about the coming 4 weeks are polls that will turn out to be way off reality. Nothing can really forecast how strategic voting will factor on election day, not to mention, the no shows: declining participation of the electorate, which has been dropping with each ballot, and was below 50% in 2014. There’s no predicting the outcome of this election. It really is anyone’s game.
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John Tory was born on May 28th, 1954
John Tory
Full Name: John Howard Tory
Profession: Lawyer and Politician
Nationality: Canadian
Occupation: Mayor of Toronto
Known For: 65th Mayor of Toronto
Party: Progressive Conservative
Term: 2014-2023
Constituency: Toronto City Council
The 65th Mayor of Toronto, a Canadian lawyer and politician, is known for his efforts to improve the city's infrastructure, transportation, and social services. He's also recognized for his moderate and collaborative approach to governance.
Written by: Thomas Blackwood
John Tory: The Unwavering Leader and Visionary of Toronto
A Legacy of Service and Dedication
John Tory, the 65th mayor of Toronto, is a name synonymous with leadership, vision, and dedication to public service. As a seasoned politician, businessman, and broadcaster, Tory has left an indelible mark on the city of Toronto, shaping its future and improving the lives of its citizens.
A Early Life and Education
Born on May 28, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario, John Howard Tory was the eldest of four children to Elizabeth (née Bacon) and John A. Tory, a prominent businessman and president of Thomson Investments Limited. This strong family foundation instilled in him the values of hard work, integrity, and a commitment to serving others. Tory's educational pursuits took him to the University of Toronto, where he earned a law degree and later a Master's in Business Administration from Harvard University.
Rise to Prominence
Tory's entry into politics began with his role as a political strategist, later becoming a lawyer and businessman. His foray into elected politics came in 2003 when he ran for mayor of Toronto, ultimately losing to David Miller. Undeterred, Tory went on to become the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2004 to 2009, serving as the leader of the Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007.
A Mayor for the People
On October 27, 2014, Tory's perseverance paid off when he was elected mayor of Toronto, defeating incumbent mayor Rob Ford's brother, councillor Doug Ford, and former councillor and member of Parliament Olivia Chow. His tenure was marked by a commitment to improving public transportation, addressing affordable housing, and fostering a spirit of inclusivity and diversity. Tory's leadership was reaffirmed in the 2018 and 2022 mayoral elections, solidifying his position as a champion of the people.
Awards and Honors
Tory's dedication to public service has been recognized through numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Ontario, the highest civilian honor in the province.
Philosophical Contributions and Beliefs
At the core of Tory's leadership philosophy lies a deep commitment to democracy, fairness, and equality. He has consistently advocated for policies that promote social justice, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. His passion for civic engagement and community development has inspired a new generation of leaders and citizens.
Controversies and Public Perception
Despite his many achievements, Tory has faced criticism and controversy, including his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and his subsequent resignation as mayor in 2023. However, his integrity and commitment to accountability have earned him the respect of his peers and the public.
Legacy and Impact
John Tory's legacy extends far beyond his tenure as mayor. He has left an indelible mark on Toronto's political landscape, inspiring a new wave of leaders and citizens to engage in the democratic process. His commitment to public service, his vision for a more equitable and sustainable city, and his unwavering dedication to the people of Toronto will be remembered for generations to come.
Personal Milestones and Key Life Events
May 28, 1954: Born in Toronto, Ontario
2003: Ran for mayor of Toronto, losing to David Miller
2004-2009: Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
2005-2007: Leader of the Opposition in Ontario
2010-2014: Volunteer chair of the nonprofit group CivicAction
2014: Elected mayor of Toronto
2018: Reelected mayor of Toronto
2022: Reelected mayor of Toronto for a third term
February 10, 2023: Announced intention to resign as mayor
February 15, 2023: Submitted resignation letter to the city clerk
February 17, 2023: Formally left office as mayor of Toronto
Influence on Modern Society
John Tory's impact on modern society extends beyond the boundaries of Toronto. His commitment to democratic values, social justice, and environmental sustainability has inspired a new generation of leaders to prioritize the needs of their citizens. His legacy serves as a testament to the power of dedicated public service and the importance of vision, leadership, and integrity in shaping the future of our communities.
Timeline
1954
Born in Toronto
John Tory was born on May 28, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1981
LLB from Osgoode Hall
Tory graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School with a law degree.
1996
Leader of the Opposition
Tory became the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition.
2007
Chairman of the TTC
Tory was appointed as the chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).
2014
Mayor of Toronto
Tory was elected as the 65th Mayor of Toronto, a position he still holds.
John Tory Quiz
What is John Tory known for in terms of his governance approach?
Moderate and collaborative
What area of infrastructure has John Tory focused on improving in Toronto?
Transportation
What is one of the key aspects of John Tory's efforts to improve Toronto's infrastructure?
Improving public transit
What profession did John Tory practice before entering politics?
Law
What is one of the social services that John Tory has worked to improve in Toronto?
Social housing
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What is John Torys political background?
John Tory is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 65th Mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He has a long history of public service, including serving as a Member of Provincial Parliament and a cabinet minister in the Government of Ontario.
What are John Torys notable achievements as Mayor of Toronto?
During his tenure as Mayor, John Tory implemented several notable initiatives, including the expansion of bike lanes, improved public transit, and increased investments in affordable housing and community programs.
What is John Torys stance on key city issues?
John Tory has been a strong advocate for addressing homelessness, improving road safety, and promoting economic development in Toronto. He has also been a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and has championed initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion.
What was John Torys career before entering politics?
Before entering politics, John Tory was a successful lawyer and business leader, serving as the CEO of Rogers Media and the CFL, among other roles.
What are John Torys thoughts on the future of Toronto?
John Tory has emphasized the need for sustainable and responsible growth in Toronto, prioritizing initiatives that promote environmental sustainability, affordability, and community engagement.
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Former Toronto mayor John Tory is set to rejoin the board of directors at Rogers Communications Inc.
Tory is listed among the 14 proposed management nominees in the company's information circular ahead of Rogers' annual meeting set for April 24.
He previously served as a Rogers director from 2010 to 2014 and chief executive of Rogers Cable Inc. from 1999 to 2003 and Rogers Media Inc. from 1995 to 1999.
Tory's return to the Rogers board comes after sisters Melinda Rogers-Hixon and Martha Rogers settled their differences with their brother Edward Rogers and announced their retirement from the company's board earlier this year.
Tory is a member of the advisory committee of the Rogers Control Trust, which holds voting control of the company.
He resigned as mayor of Toronto in 2023 after admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a staffer.
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Former Toronto mayor John Tory is rejoining the board of Rogers Communications Inc. RCI-B-T, the telecom and media empire where he once served as an executive.
Mr. Tory is one of three people who will stand for election to the company’s board at its annual shareholder meeting on April 24. Several directors have recently departed the board, including two of chairman Edward Rogers’s sisters, who stepped down as part of a settlement in a dramatic and highly public family feud.
Mr. Tory previously joined the Rogers board in 2010, after a five-year run as the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. He stepped down four years later to focus on his new job as mayor, but his continued association with the company during his time in office invited public scrutiny. He remained a member of the advisory committee to the Rogers Control Trust, the vehicle through which the Rogers family exerts its control over the telecom.
In the fall of 2021, Mr. Tory attempted to mediate the Rogers family feud, a dispute between warring factions over the composition of the board and who should lead the company. During this time, he chaired a critical meeting of the control trust’s advisory committee.
Asked at the time whether it was appropriate for the sitting mayor to do this, Mr. Tory said he was fulfilling a promise to the company’s founder, the late Ted Rogers.
The two other new directors the telecom is nominating to its board are Wayne Sparrow, elected chief of the Musqueam Indian Band, and Diane A. Kazarian, who was the first female managing partner of the Greater Toronto Area at accounting firm PwC, according to Rogers’s proxy circular to shareholders on Friday.
Edward Rogers’s position as head of the control trust gives him voting control over these appointments. He is also chair of the board’s nominating committee, which puts forward board candidates.
Mr. Tory’s ties to the Toronto-based telecom prompted him to recuse himself from city council votes on multiple occasions, to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
He won a third term as mayor in the 2022 municipal election, but announced his resignation months later, after admitting that he’d had an affair with a woman who had been a member of his staff.
Mr. Tory’s disclosed holdings in Rogers are worth just under $15-million at the company’s current share price, according to the proxy circular.
That’s a considerably larger stake than the $5.5-million worth of stock he held in 2014, before he stepped down from the board. As a result of doing so, he no longer had to disclose his holdings.
The growth in Mr. Tory’s stake in Rogers is attributable to both growth in the telecom’s share price and an increase in his reported holdings of both voting Class A and non-voting Class B shares.
In an e-mail, Mr. Tory said the increase in his reported Class A holdings, from 7,812 shares in 2014 to 83,200 today, is due to shares owned “by a family investment entity which I do not control.”
Some of his reported 176,770 Class B shares are also held by that entity, he said, adding that he had acquired some additional Class B shares in 2024 after resigning from the mayoralty. In 2014, Rogers reported his Class B ownership at 111,000 shares.
Rogers’s directors each received an annual retainer of $110,000 in 2023, plus $120,000 in Rogers stock. They received an additional $5,500 for each board committee they served on, and more for each committee they chaired.
The connections between Mr. Tory’s family and the Rogers family date to the late 1950s, when Ted Rogers articled at Torys LLP, the law firm founded by Mr. Tory’s grandfather and later run by his father, John A. Tory, who served on the Rogers board for decades.
Over the years, the younger Mr. Tory developed a friendship with Ted Rogers and his wife, Loretta, and worked as an executive at the telecom, serving as the head of Rogers Media and then of Rogers Cable. He left in 2003 to pursue a career in politics.
Mr. Tory kept his various roles at several Rogers family trusts after becoming mayor in 2014, citing a moral obligation to the company’s late founder, who died of congestive heart failure in 2008.
Mr. Tory said that aside from donating a very small number of his personal Rogers holdings to charity one year, he did not deal with any of his shares in the telecom while he was mayor.
“I dealt with the matter of conflict by following the applicable rules, which require self declaration of any possible conflicts at council or committee meetings,” he said.
In late 2022, Toronto Integrity Commissioner Jonathan Batty cleared Mr. Tory of voting improperly on road restrictions that could have affected fans attending Toronto Blue Jays games. (Rogers owns both the team and the stadium in which it plays.)
The following year, in a 122-page report, Mr. Batty concluded that Mr. Tory had broken ethics rules, both by having an affair with a subordinate and by voting on a proposal for the city to pursue a World Cup deal with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, since by this time MLSE employed the woman he’d had an affair with. (Rogers and BCE Inc. together own 75 per cent of MLSE, the parent company of Toronto’s professional hockey, basketball, soccer and Canadian Football League teams.)
The proxy circular also reveals that several members have been added to the advisory committee to the Rogers Control Trust in order to replace the three members – family matriarch Loretta Rogers and two of her husband’s top lieutenants, Phil Lind and Alan Horn – who have passed away in recent years. Ted Rogers’s childhood best friend Toby Hull is also no longer on the advisory committee.
The Rogers Control Trust steers the telecom and media giant through its ownership of 97.5 per cent of the company’s voting Class A shares.
The new members are Bob Reeves, president and chief executive officer of the family holding company Rogers Telecommunications Limited; company director Jan Innes; David Miller, the telecom’s former chief legal officer; and Rogers executive Tom Turner.
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For other uses, see John Tory (disambiguation).
John Howard Tory (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian broadcaster, businessman, and former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007 while he was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2004 to 2009.
After a career as a lawyer, political strategist and businessman, Tory ran as a mayoral candidate in the 2003 Toronto municipal election and lost to David Miller. Tory was subsequently elected as Ontario PC leader from 2004 to 2009, and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey and serving as the leader of the Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007. After his resignation as PC leader in 2009, Tory became a radio talk show host on CFRB. Despite widespread speculation, Tory did not run for mayor again in 2010. He was also the volunteer chair of the non-profit group CivicAction from 2010 to 2014.
On October 27, 2014, Tory was elected mayor of Toronto, defeating incumbent mayor Rob Ford's brother, councillor Doug Ford and former councillor and member of Parliament (MP) Olivia Chow. On October 22, 2018, he was re-elected mayor of Toronto in the 2018 mayoral election, defeating former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat.[1] He was elected to a third term as mayor on October 24, 2022, after defeating urbanist Gil Penalosa.[2] He announced his intention to imminently resign as mayor on February 10, 2023, after admitting to having an affair with a staffer during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4] He submitted his resignation letter to the city clerk on February 15, and formally left office on February 17, at 5 p.m.[5] Tory was succeeded by Olivia Chow as mayor of Toronto.
Early life and education
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John Howard Tory, the eldest of four, was born on May 28, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario,[6] to Elizabeth (née Bacon) and John A. Tory, president of Thomson Investments Limited and a director of Rogers Communications.[7] His grandfather was lawyer John S. D. Tory and his great-grandfather founded Sun Life of Canada.[8]
He attended the University of Toronto Schools, at the time a publicly-funded high school affiliated with the University of Toronto.[9][10] He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1975.[11] He received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1978 from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.[12] He was called to the bar in Ontario in 1980.[12]
Business and early political career
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From 1972 to 1979, Tory was hired by family friend Ted Rogers as a journalist for Rogers Broadcasting's Toronto radio stations CFTR and CHFI. From 1980 to 1981, and later from 1986 to 1995, Tory held various positions at Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington including partner, managing partner, and member of the Executive Committee.[13]
From 1981 to 1985, Tory served in the office of the premier of Ontario, Bill Davis, as principal secretary to the premier and associate secretary of the cabinet. After Davis retired as premier in 1985, Tory joined the office of the Canadian Special Envoy on Acid Rain, as special advisor. The special envoy had been appointed by the Mulroney government to review matters of air quality with a United States counterpart. Tory supported Dianne Cunningham's bid to lead the Ontario PCs in 1990.[14]
Tory later served as tour director and campaign chairman to then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and managed the 1993 federal election campaign of Mulroney's successor, Kim Campbell. In his role as the Progressive Conservative campaign co-manager that year, he authorized two infamous campaign ads that ridiculed Liberal candidate Jean Chretien's face, which is partially paralyzed due to a childhood disease. The ads were greeted with much outcry among the Canadian public. They were withdrawn ten days after their first airings, and the Progressive Conservatives would proceed to be decimated in the federal election.[15]
From 1995 to 1999, he returned to Rogers Communications, but this time as president and CEO of Rogers Media[16] which had become one of Canada's largest publishing and broadcasting companies. Rogers has interests in radio and television stations, internet, specialty television channels, consumer magazines, trade magazines and, at the time, the Toronto Sun and the Sun newspaper chain.
In 1999, he became president and CEO of Rogers subsidiary Rogers Cable, which he led through a period of transition from a monopoly environment to an open marketplace, overseeing a significant increase in operating income. Tory stepped down after Ted Rogers announced that he would stay on as president and CEO of parent company Rogers Communications. He served as the ninth commissioner of the Canadian Football League from 1996 to 2000.[16] Tory later was a board member of Rogers between 2010 and 2014, stepping down to run for Mayor of Toronto.[17]
Tory continued to have an interest in being a broadcaster throughout his life and, as a Rogers executive, hosted a public affairs program on Rogers Cable's community access channel for many years. He sat as a board member of Metro Inc., the Quebec-based parent corporation for Metro and Food Basics grocery stores.[18]
First campaign for mayor (2003)
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After six years as a key backer of retiring Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman, Tory ran in the November 2003 election for mayor of Toronto. He finished in second place, behind councillor David Miller and ahead of former mayor Barbara Hall, former councillor and MP John Nunziata, and former councillor and budget chief Tom Jakobek.
Tory and Miller both entered the race with limited name recognition and support, but each quickly claimed a core base—Miller among progressives and Tory among more conservative voters. Meanwhile, Hall's initially commanding lead slowly dissipated over the course of the campaign, and the campaigns of both Nunziata and Jakobek were sidelined by controversies.[citation needed]
Tory also accepted an endorsement from the Toronto Police Association. He held the traditional suburban conservative vote that had helped to elect Mel Lastman in the 1997 mayor's campaign, but lost the overall vote to Miller in a close race. After the election, Tory helped Miller and Hall raise funds to repay their campaign debts.[citation needed]
Leader of the Ontario PC Party
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In March 2004, Tory hinted that he would be seeking the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives, after Ernie Eves announced his intention to resign from that post. The provincial PC leadership election was announced for September 18, 2004, and Tory made his candidacy official on May 6, 2004. John Laschinger was appointed to be Tory's campaign manager. Tory won the support of former provincial cabinet ministers Elizabeth Witmer, David Tsubouchi, Jim Wilson, Janet Ecker, Chris Hodgson, Cam Jackson, Phil Gillies and Bob Runciman as well as backbench members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) Norm Miller, Laurie Scott, Ted Arnott and John O'Toole.
Tory's opponents for the leadership post were former provincial minister of finance Jim Flaherty and Oak Ridges MPP Frank Klees. Tory defeated Flaherty with 54 per cent on the second ballot. When Flaherty later left provincial politics to seek a seat in the House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, Tory endorsed his former rival in the 2006 election; Flaherty was elected and was appointed the federal minister of finance. Tory also campaigned prominently with Flaherty's wife Christine Elliott in the provincial by-election held March 30, enabling her to win the seat formerly held by her husband.
Tory told the media in November 2004 that he would seek election to the legislature in time for the spring 2005 legislative session.
On January 31, 2005, after much public speculation and some delay, Ernie Eves resigned his seat and cleared the way for Tory to run in Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey, the safest PC seat in the province. As a "parachute candidate", Tory faced some criticism about his commitment to the riding. Nevertheless, he easily won the March 17, 2005 by-election with 56 per cent of the vote. Former premier Bill Davis appeared for Tory's first session in the legislature as PC leader.
2007 Ontario general election
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See also: 2007 Ontario general election
In the 2007 general election, Tory ran in the Toronto riding of Don Valley West, the area where he grew up, raised his family and lived most of his life.
Tory released his platform on June 9, 2007. The platform, A Plan for a Better Ontario, commits a PC government to eliminate the health care tax introduced by the previous government, put scrubbers on coal-fired power plants,[19] address Ontario's doctor shortage,[20] allow new private health care partnerships provided services are paid by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP),[21] impose more penalties on illegal land occupations in response to the Caledonia land dispute,[22] fast-track the building of nuclear power plants,[23] and invest the gas tax in public transit and roads.[24] A costing of the platform released in August estimated that the PC promises would cost an additional $14 billion over four years.[25]
The PC campaign was formally launched on September 3.[26] Most of the campaign was dominated by discussion of his plan to extend public funding to Ontario's faith-based separate schools,[27] during which Tory supported allowing the teaching of creationism in religious studies classes.[28] Earlier in the year, indications were that the party would have been a strong contender to win the election, but the school funding promise resulted in the Liberals regaining the lead in popular support for the duration of the campaign.[29] Later in the campaign, in the face of heavy opposition, Tory promised a free vote on the issue.[30]
With the beginning of the official campaign period on September 10, the PC campaign made clear its intention to make the previous government's record a key issue. In particular, Tory focused on the Liberals' 2003 election and 2004 pre-budget promise not to raise taxes and their subsequent imposition of a health care tax.[31]
On election night, the PCs made minor gains and remained the Official Opposition while Dalton McGuinty's Liberals were re-elected with a majority. Tory was defeated in Don Valley West by the incumbent Ontario Liberal MPP, Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne.[32] Although Tory was defeated in both his riding of Don Valley West and the race for the premiership, he said that he would stay on as leader unless the party wanted him to resign.[29][33]
Leading from outside the legislature
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As a result of the election loss, the party decided to hold a leadership review vote at its 2008 general party meeting in London.[34] Tory received 66.9 percent support, lower than internal tracking which showed him in the more comfortable 70 percent range. Three hours after the leadership review vote, Tory announced to the delegates that he would be staying on as leader.[35] He came under heavy criticism from several party members following this delay, with his opponents signalling that they would continue to call for an end to what they called his 'weak' leadership.[36] Other party members supported Tory, saying that his opponents should accept the results and move on.[35][36]
Throughout 2008, Tory's leadership of the party was perceived to be tenuous, as he faced widespread criticism for his seeming failure to convince a sitting MPP to resign in order to open a seat for him. Most notably, Bill Murdoch called for Tory to resign as party leader in September, resulting in his suspension from the party caucus on September 12.[37] Six days later, Murdoch was permanently expelled from the party caucus. In December 2008, media pundits speculated that Prime Minister Stephen Harper would appoint PC MPP Bob Runciman to the Senate in order to clear the way for Tory to run in Runciman's comfortably safe riding of Leeds—Grenville. However, Harper did not do so.
On January 9, 2009, PC MPP Laurie Scott announced her resignation from the legislature, allowing Tory to run in the resulting by-election in Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, a normally safe PC riding in central Ontario. In exchange for agreeing to resign, Scott was given the post of chair of the party's election preparedness committee until the 2011 election, and $100,000 in severance pay.[38][39] On March 5, 2009, he lost the by-election to Liberal candidate Rick Johnson.[40] Tory announced his resignation from the party leadership the next day and was succeeded by Bob Runciman as interim leader; Runciman had served twice as leader of the opposition during the two times Tory did not have a seat in the legislature. Niagara West—Glanbrook MPP Tim Hudak won the 2009 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership election to become party leader and opposition leader.[41]
Return to broadcasting
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Several weeks following the end of his provincial political career, Tory announced he was returning to broadcasting, to host a Sunday evening phone-in show on Toronto talk radio station CFRB. The John Tory Show simulcast on CHAM in Hamilton and CKTB in St. Catharines.[42] He was also looking for opportunities in business, law or the non-profit sector.[43]
In the fall of 2009, CFRB moved Tory to its Monday to Friday afternoon slot, for a new show, Live Drive, airing from 4pm to 7pm.[44] The show first broadcast on October 5, 2009.[45]
Tory was considering challenging incumbent Toronto Mayor David Miller in the 2010 municipal election as was Ontario Deputy Premier George Smitherman.[44] On September 25, 2009, Miller announced he was not running for re-election.[46] Tory announced on January 7 that he was not running in order to continue his radio show and also become head of the Toronto City Summit Alliance.[47][48][49][50][51] On August 5, 2010, after a week of press speculation that he was about to re-enter the race, Tory confirmed that he would not be running in 2010 for mayor of Toronto.[52]
Tory's last broadcast was February 21, 2014, after which he declared his candidacy for mayor.[53]
Mayor of Toronto (2014–2023)
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Elections
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Tory registered as a candidate for the 2014 Toronto mayoral election on February 24, 2014. In his launch video he stated that building a Yonge Street relief line was "job one" if elected mayor.[54] On May 27, he announced his Toronto relief plan, entitled SmartTrack, providing electric commuter rail along existing GO train infrastructure with service from Unionville to Pearson Airport.[55][56] SmartTrack construction has still not begun as well as having seen several changes.[57] On October 27, 2014, Tory was elected as mayor of Toronto.[58]
Tory became mayor of Toronto on December 1, 2014. He spent his first day meeting with Premier Kathleen Wynne, emphasizing the importance of working with other levels of government. He also announced that Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong would be his deputy mayor. Minnan-Wong remained in the position for two terms, but did not seek re-election in 2022, and Tory selected Councillor Jennifer McKelvie as deputy mayor for his third term.[59][60]
On May 1, 2018, Tory registered his candidacy for re-election.[61] Tory retained a high approval rating at 58%, with only 24% disapproving, and 18% undecided. He was a front runner in the polls for the mayoral election at 65–70% support.[62] Tory was re-elected mayor of Toronto on October 22, 2018, defeating former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat with 63.49% of the vote.[63][64]
Tory was re-elected to a third term in 2022, defeating urbanist Gil Penalosa with 62% of the vote.[65]
Community safety and policing
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Tory has sat on the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) since his election as mayor in 2014. The TPSB oversees the Toronto Police Service (TPS) by hiring the chief of police, setting policies, and approving the annual police budget.
Soon after the 2014 election, the TPSB quashed rules governing the use of the community contacts policy ("carding"),[66] a controversial practice allowing police to randomly and routinely stop and demand identification and personal information from any individual deemed suspicious.[67] The information collected is kept on record for an unspecified period and is easily accessible by police officers.[67] Opponents allege it disproportionately targets Black people.[68] The previous rules, brought in by former police chief Bill Blair, had required police to inform stopped individuals of their rights and to keep a record of each stop.[67] Blair had also suspended the practice pending new rules.[67]
Despite public demand to completely end carding, Tory initially defended the policy in general, stating it should be reformed, but not stopped.[68] The practice was defended by the police union, which maintained that it was a "proven, pro-active police investigative strategy that reduces, prevents and solves crime".[69] On June 7, 2015, Tory called for an end to the policy, describing it as "illegitimate, disrespectful and hurtful" and stating it had "eroded the public trust".[69] In the TPSB meeting on June 18, Tory introduced a motion to end carding,[70] however, the motion was subsequently amended to return to an initial 2014 version of the policy, which required officers to notify those they stop that the contact is voluntary and issue a physical receipt following the interaction.[71][72] Carding was effectively ended province-wide in 2017 when the provincial community safety minister, Yasir Naqvi, issued a regulation banning police from collecting data arbitrarily.[73][74]
Police reform
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On June 25, 2020, in response to calls for police reform following the murder of George Floyd in the United States and a series of similar incidents in Toronto such as the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet,[75] councillors Josh Matlow and Kristyn Wong-Tam introduced a motion to cut the Toronto police budget by $122 million, or 10 per cent, and reallocate funds to community programming.[76][77] Tory, along with a majority of council, rejected the proposal, instead passing a series of motions supported by Tory which did not include immediate defunding of the police.[78] Among the motions included the creation of a non-police crisis response pilot program and a $5 million funding increase to allow for front-line officers to be equipped with body cameras.[78][79] Tory claimed that a reduction in budget was likely if the program was successful.[75]
During his term of office, he insisted on strengthening the resources of the police, the municipality's main financial asset. The priority given to the police was at the expense of social services and housing, whose budgets were reduced.[80]
Toronto Community Crisis Service
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At its meeting on June 25, 2020, Toronto City Council considered a series of motions aimed at reforming policing and crisis response in the city.[81] Tory tabled a motion to "detask" the police. The city would explore how duties currently assigned to sworn officers would be assumed by "alternative models of community safety response" to incidents where neither violence nor weapons are at issue.[75][82] The proposal would "commit that its first funding priority for future budgets [be] centered [sic] on a robust system of social supports and services" and make an itemized line-by-line breakdown of the police budget public; a reduction in the police budget would likely ensue, according to the motion.[75] Tory's motion passed unanimously on June 29.[81]
On January 26, 2022, the Executive Committee approved a staff report outlining an implementation plan for the pilot program.[83][84] It was subsequently adopted by city council on February 2.[84] According to Tory, "the pilots will allow the city to test and to evaluate and to revise this model before we implement it on a larger scale but make no mistake it is our intention to implement it on a larger scale and to have it city-wide by 2025 at the latest".[83]
In March 2022, the city launched the Toronto Community Crisis Service pilot program.[85]
TTC safety
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In 2022 and 2023, Toronto saw a series of violent incidents on the transit system, which saw employees and passengers seriously injured or killed in seemingly random attacks.[86] Union leaders and passenger advocacy groups demanded action from the city, calling for increased mental health programs, social services and security.[87][88] On January 26, 2023, Tory, along with police chief Myron Demkiw and TTC CEO Rick Leary announced that the city would deploy 80 additional police officers to patrol the transit system, using off-duty officers in an overtime capacity.[89] Additionally, the TTC announced it would deploy 20 workers to provide outreach services to the homeless population on the TTC, and 50 security guards.[90][91]
Transportation
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SmartTrack
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Main article: SmartTrack
As part of his campaign in 2014, Tory proposed utilizing existing GO Transit rail corridors to construct an above ground relief line, building on the existing GO Regional Express Rail expansion plan. The proposal would see the service operate 22 "surface subway" stations alongside GO trains from Mississauga's Airport Corporate Centre south through Etobicoke towards Union Station, then north towards Markham.[92][93] Tory initially said that the proposal would cost $8 billion, with the city covering $2.5 billion, funded through tax increment financing,[92] and that SmartTrack would be completed in seven years.[94]
After his election, as city and Metrolinx staff began studying his proposal, SmartTrack plans began to change, with stations changing, and questions raised surrounding the costs and integration. An updated plan saw the western portion being dropped in favour of extending the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.[95][96] As other transit projects emerged, such as the Ontario Line, stations were dropped which would be serviced by new proposals.[97]
The plan currently in place sees the construction of five new transit stations being completed in 2026, at a cost of $1.463 billion to the city.[97][98]
Scarborough Subway extension
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Tory supports a one-stop extension of Toronto subway Line 2 to serve a proposed transit hub at the Scarborough Town Centre[99] as opposed to the three-stop Scarborough previously approved and fully funded under Ford.[100][101][102] The LRT alternative failed in council in 2016.[103] The Scarborough Subway Extension has completed the planning stage and as of 2016 was in the detailed design stage, with an estimated operation date of 2023.[104]
Gardiner Expressway
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In 2016, council faced a decision on the future of the elevated portion of the Gardiner Expressway east of Jarvis Street, as the aging structure would require significant renovations it was to remain in service beyond 2020.[105] Citing his election promise to improve traffic, Tory supported a hybrid option, which would see roughly $1 billion spent to reconstruct the structure with on and off ramps reconfigured.[106][107] The alternative proposal would have seen the expressway torn down at a cost of $461 million.[105] On this issue, three members of his executive committee opposed him.[108] Other politicians, including former mayor David Crombie and former chief city planner and 2018 Toronto mayoral candidate Jennifer Keesmaat opposed the renovation of the Gardiner Expressway, and prefer to tear it down instead.[109][110][111]
Road tolls
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During the 2003 election, Tory initially positioned himself against road tolls.[112] As mayor, Tory's position softened in 2016 when the city considered how it could raise revenue to fund transit projects.[112] In November 2016, Tory's announced that he would support tolls on the two municipally-owned expressways, the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway, which would have raised roughly $200 million annually.[113][114][115] The proposal passed city council, however, as the municipal government is a creation of the provincial legislature, the city would need approval from the province to implement tolls, as the City of Toronto Act, which lays out the city's legal powers did not allow for road tolls.[113]
The provincial government ultimately rejected the idea in January 2017, with Premier Wynne stating that her government could not endorse road tolls on the Gardiner and Don Valley Parkway until better transit alternatives were in place for commuters outside of the city to enter downtown. Wynne instead committed to increasing the municipal share of the gas tax, which would give the city $170 million annually by 2022.[116] While Tory was thankful for the increased gas tax share, he harshly criticized the province for denying the city a long-term option.[116]
During the 2022 municipal election, Tory once again floated the idea of introducing road tolls. The provincial government under Premier Doug Ford once again rejected the idea.[117]
Housing
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In 2014, Tory selected Councillor Ana Bailão to be the chair of the affordable housing committee.[118]
Modular housing
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In September 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the city launched a housing response plan which would see 1000 units of modular housing contracted.[119] The initiative identifies city owned sites to place the units and is part of the city's housing strategy.[120]
Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation
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In 2021, the city launched a senior-focused social housing provider known as the Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation. It provides housing to 15,000 low and moderate income seniors in 83 Toronto Community Housing Corporation buildings, and employs staff from Toronto Community Housing's former seniors unit.[121][122]
ModernTO
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Initially launched in 2019 to optimize the city's office space,[123] the ModernTO initiative was adopted by Toronto City Council in April 2022 and seeks to redevelop a number of city-owned properties as affordable housing. The initiative sees the city reduce its office footprint from 55 to 15 locations by creating office hubs in central buildings such as City Hall, the civic centres and Metro Hall. Eight buildings will be repurposed into affordable housing, creating 500 to 600 units.[124][125]
2023 housing action plan
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Following the 2022 election, Tory introduced a suite of proposals in city council which would overhaul the city's housing strategy.[126] The proposals include ending exclusionary zoning, which would update by-laws to legalize laneway suites and garden suites, as well as exempting developments of four units or less from development charges. It includes incentivizing construction of rental housing by reducing fees and charges, the creation of a new Development and Growth Division, which aims at speeding up approval times. The proposal also allocates a portion of city-owned land to be developed by non-profits, asks the province to allow the city to create a "use it or loose it" policy for developers sitting on approved but undeveloped land.[127][126] City staff will report back to council in March 2023 with a report on how to implement the changes.[128]
While introduced with the housing action plan, a separate item includes legalize rooming houses city-wide by March 2024, which was previously deferred due to lack of support on council.[126]
The proposal was described as "a profoundly bold plan" by former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat, who ran against Tory for mayor in 2018, and praised by housing advocacy groups. Councillor Stephen Holyday described the plan as a "death blow" to detached homes such as those in his Etobicoke Centre ward.[126]
Parks and recreation
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Rail Deck Park
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Main article: Rail Deck Park
In August 2016, Tory proposed the development of a 21-acre greenspace in the downtown core constructed above the Railway Lands. The proposed park would span between the Rogers Centre and Bathurst Street.[129][130] The proposal was priced at $1.66 billion.[131]
The plan was contingent on the city securing air rights to the lands above the railway, owned by Canadian National Railway and Toronto Terminals Railway.[132] A group of private developers disputed this, claiming they had already owned the air rights.[133] City council moved to re-zone the area above the railway for park use only,[133] which would prevent developers from building residential buildings as is the case in the surrounding area.[133] The developers sided with the city in the provincial government's Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), which sided with the city, noting the growing downtown core and a lack of open space.[134] The developers wished to build a 12-acre park as part of a development of eight condo and office towers.[135]
In May 2021, LPAT issued a new ruling in response to sided with the developers, ruling the city should not have rejected a proposal to build a "mixed use community" over the land.[136][137] The tribunal decision effectively ended the city's plans to develop the land as park space.[138] In a statement, Tory said he was "deeply disappointed" by the ruling and "the possible impact on the future of Rail Deck Park".[136]
The development group plans to build a park at half the size of the city's original proposal, with mixed use towers taking up the remaining space.[139]
COVID-19 pandemic
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On March 23, 2020, a state of emergency was declared in Toronto by Tory, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.[140][141] This came six days after Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in the province,[142] which included prohibition of all public events of over 50 people (later reduced to 5 people on March 28), closure of bars and restaurants (with the exception that restaurants could continue to provide takeout and delivery services) as well as libraries, theatres, cinemas, schools and daycares.[143][144] On March 31, Tory announced that the City of Toronto would cancel all city-led major events, festivals, conferences, permits and cultural programs until June 30.[145]
Beginning after Canada Day, street parking enforcement as well as fare evasion enforcement returned to Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission respectively.[146] From July 2, 2020, face masks or coverings were required to be worn on the TTC.[147] After July 7, masks were required in enclosed, public places.[148]
Strong-mayor powers
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Prior to the 2022 election, at the request of Tory,[149] Premier Doug Ford's provincial government introduced legislation known as the Strong Mayors, Building More Homes Act, 2022, which granted Tory additional powers including the development of the budget, creating council committees, appointing the chairs and vice chairs of those committees, the power to reorganize departments, appointing department heads, and appointing the city manager. Tory was also granted the power to veto council decisions which do not align with priorities set by the province.[150][151] On November 16, 2022, the province proposed further changes the powers of the mayor, introducing the Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 which would allow by-laws to be passed with only one-third of council voting in favour if Tory declared it to be in line with provincial priorities.[152]
At a press conference, Tory stated that when speaking to the public, he often hears complaints relating to housing and community safety, but nobody has complained about the new powers.[153] The mayor's office has also said he would make very limited use of new powers.[154] The Ford government defended the new powers by pointing out the mayor's "city-wide mandate", having received more votes than the rest of council.[155] The National Post's Adam Zivo argued that the mayor is just as legitimate as council and that the changes will increase Tory's "political capital and influence," which he can use to push for the city's interests to other levels of government.[156]
The new legislation was condemned by Toronto City Council, which had not been consulted on the changes, some of which were introduced after the election.[157][158] All five living former Toronto mayors, David Crombie, David Miller, Barbara Hall, Art Eggleton and John Sewell, wrote a letter to Tory describing the new powers as an "attack" on local democracy and majority rule.[154] Political science professors such as Harvard's Pippa Norris and Laval's Louis Massicotte were puzzled by the legislation, as no other democratic legislature in the world can pass laws with only one-third support.[159] Critics urged Tory to reject some, or all, of the new powers as Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe had done. Toronto Sun commentator Brian Lilley supported expanded powers for the mayor due to his city-wide mandate, but argued that those powers should not include minority rule.[160] The Globe and Mail's Marcus Gee questioned why Tory had chosen not revealed his plans to the public,[153] and described the changes as "offensive in principle and dangerous in practice".[161] The Toronto Star's editorial board also called on Tory to reject the new powers.[162]
In December 2022, Tory asked the provincial government to amend the legislation to include a sunset clause after his term ends in 2026.[163]
Taxes
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Tory promised to keep property tax increases at or below the rate of inflation. He had previously made the same promise during the last municipal election and kept it as mayor.[164]
Extramarital affair and resignation
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On February 10, 2023, the Toronto Star broke the news that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tory had a months-long affair with a former staffer that ended earlier in 2023. Through his lawyer, Tory described the relationship as a "serious error of judgement". While no law prohibits politicians from having relationships with their staff, the Star questioned whether the relationship violated the city's internal policies.[3]
Tory announced at a press conference the same day that he would resign as Mayor of Toronto and committed to working with Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie, City Manager Paul Johnson and City Clerk John D. Elvidge to ensure an "orderly transition".[165][166] He submitted his resignation letter to Elvidge on February 16, which states that his official last day would be February 17 at 5 p.m., after which McKelvie would assume certain mayoral powers until council arranged for a mayoral by-election.[5] Former NDP MP Olivia Chow was elected to succeed Tory as mayor.[167] Tory had endorsed his former deputy mayor Ana Bailão to succeed him.[168] She finished second in the election.[169]
Post mayoralty
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In December 2023, several months after he resigned as mayor, Tory joined Bell Media as a municipal affairs commentator appearing on CFRB as a commentator and substitute host as well as on CTV News and CP24.[170] In March 2024, it was announced that Tory would rejoin the board of directors of Rogers, after being a member of the board between 2010 and 2014 prior to running for Mayor of Toronto.[17]
Personal life
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Tory has been married to Barbara Hackett, a home builder and renovator, since 1978.[171] They met in 1976 at York University, where they both studied law and Hackett also studied business.[8] Hackett was diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome in 1991.[8] They have four children.[3]
Tory has two brothers, Michael and Jeffrey, and one sister, Jennifer.[8] One of Tory's ancestors, James Tory, was a soldier in the 71st Scottish Regiment. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war during the American Revolution. He later settled in Nova Scotia in the 1780s.[7] His maternal grandmother, Helen Yvonne Solomon, was born in 1909 to a Russian Jewish family that had immigrated to Canada six years earlier and settled in Toronto.[172] Helen Solomon married Howard English Bacon, an Anglican, and their daughter Elizabeth Bacon was raised a Christian and married Tory's father, John A. Tory, in 1953.[172]
Honours
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In 2012, Tory was made a member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for being "a consummate champion for the Greater Toronto Region as a founding member and chair of CivicAction and chairs and volunteers on countless fundraising campaigns".[173] Tory is also a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal,[174][175] and holds a commission as King's Counsel.[176] In 2011, Tory was awarded a Harry Jerome Award for his work as co-chair of DiverseCity.[177]
Election results
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2022 Toronto mayoral election Candidate Votes % John Tory 342,158 62.00 Gil Penalosa 98,525 17.85 Chloe-Marie Brown 34,821 6.31 Blake Acton 8893 1.61 27 other candidates 67,493 12.22 Total 551,890 100.00
2018 Toronto mayoral election Candidate Votes % John Tory 479,659 63.49 Jennifer Keesmaat 178,193 23.59 Faith Goldy 25,667 3.40 Saron Gebresellasi 15,222 2.01 64 other candidates 56,752 7.51 Total 755,493 100.00
2014 Toronto mayoral election Candidate Votes % John Tory 394,775 40.28 Doug Ford 330,610 33.73 Olivia Chow 226,879 23.15 64 other candidates 27,913 2.84 Total 980,177 100.00
Ontario provincial by-election, Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock March 5, 2009 due to resignation of Laurie Scott Party Candidate Votes % Liberal Rick Johnson 15,542 43.88 +14.37 Progressive Conservative John Tory 14,595 41.20 -8.79 Green Mike Schreiner 2,330 6.58 -0.58 New Democratic Lyn Edwards 2,112 5.96 -5.95 Independent Jason Taylor 280 0.79 Family Coalition Jake Pothaar 258 0.73 +0.11 Freedom Bill Denby 140 0.40 -0.41 Independent John Turmel 94 0.27 Libertarian Paolo Fabrizio 72 0.20 Total valid votes 35,423 100.00 Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +11.58 Source: Elections Ontario[178]
2007 Ontario general election: Don Valley West Party Candidate Votes % Liberal Kathleen Wynne 23,059 50.4 - Progressive Conservative John Tory 18,136 39.7 - Green Adrian Walker 2,202 4.8 - New Democratic Mike Kenny 2,135 4.7 - Family Coalition Daniel Kidd 183 0.4 -
Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey by-election, March 17, 2005
resignation of Ernie Eves Party Candidate Votes % Progressive Conservative John Tory 15,610 56.3 Liberal Bob Duncanson 4,625 16.7 New Democratic Lynda McDougall 3,881 14.0 Green Frank de Jong 2,767 10.0 Family Coalition Paul Micelli 479 1.7 Independent William Cook 163 0.6 Libertarian Philip Bender 135 0.5 Independent John Turmel 85 0.3
2003 Toronto municipal election: Mayor of Toronto Candidate Votes % David Miller 299,385 43.26 John Tory 263,189 38.03 Barbara Hall 63,751 9.21 John Nunziata 36,021 5.20 Tom Jakobek 5,277 0.76 39 other candidates 24,462 3.53 Total valid votes 692,085 100.00
For full results, see Results of the 2003 Toronto election.
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Watch the video above: A 1-on-1 with John Tory.
TORONTO – John Tory announced Monday that he would once again be running for mayor of Toronto.
“The skills and experience I have, I think are right to bring the kind of leadership to the city now to get some things done, getting transit built and getting people working together,” he said on The Morning Show.
He will be going up against Mayor Rob Ford but Tory has a lengthy résumé in politics.
He ran for mayor of Toronto in 2003 against David Miller but lost, bringing in 38 per cent of the vote compared to Miller’s 43 per cent.
But his first brush with politics was in the office of the premier under Bill Davis from 1981 to 1986.
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In the early 1990’s he worked with the federal conservative party, chairing the campaigns Brian Mulroney and the disastrous 1993 campaign of Kim Campbell.
The campaign faltered after intense criticism over an attack ad targeting then Liberal Leader Jean Chretien which featured several unflattering close-up photos of the Chretien.
Many people thought the ad focused on Chretien’s facial abnormality caused by Bell’s Palsy, though the ad makes no mention of it. The Progressive Conservatives, led by Campbell, lost 154 seats that election finishing last out of five parties.
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Tory has also served in high-profile positions away from politics, serving as CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. from 1995 to 1999 and as Chairman of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1996 to 2000.
Federal lobbyist data shows Tory was registered as a lobbyist in the Prime Minister’s Office for Rogers until January 02, 2014.
A few months after losing the mayor’s race to Miller, Tory took a shot at provincial politics seeking to replace Ernie Eves as leader of the provincial Progressive Conservative party. He led the Tories until 2007 when he ran against then MPP Kathleen Wynne in her riding of Don Valley West.
He returned to broadcasting after the election hosting a radio show on Newstalk 1010 from 2009 to 2014 and as co-host of Focus Ontario on Global News.
But he hasn’t stepped away from politics, assuming the chairmanship of the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance in 2012. The group has championed transit reform and initiated a large advertising campaign asking people what would “would do for 32” minutes, or the amount of time lost in gridlock each day round the GTA.
And transit is expected to play a large part in the October election as the city discusses transit expansion, including the possible downtown relief line, the recently approved Scarborough subway (which David Soknacki wants to reverse) and a possible subway along Sheppard Avenue (which the mayor wants to see built).
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A recent poll found that Olivia Chow is currently the top candidate in the Toronto mayoral race, but if former mayor John Tory were running he would be in the lead.
According to a recent survey from Forum Research, 18 per cent of people support Chow, who is a former member of Parliament and former city councillor.
Meanwhile, ten per cent are in favour of Councillor Josh Matlow and six per cent of respondents said they would vote for former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders. Four per cent of people said Scarborough Member of Provincial Parliament Mitzie Hunter is their top choice, while another four per cent were in favour of former city councillor Ana Bailão.
READ MORE: John Tory resigns as Toronto mayor after admitting to cheating with former staffer
However, when asked, 40 per cent of the 1,022 Toronto residents surveyed said they would vote for former Toronto Mayor John Tory if he were to run in the upcoming election. The survey found that support for Tory was higher among respondents aged 45 and over than those aged 18 to 44.
“Tory continues to enjoy notable popularity,” Dr. Lorne Bozinoff, president of Forum Research said, adding that voters seem willing to see him return to the mayor’s office.
Torontonians will head to the polls to elect the city’s next mayor on June 26. This comes after Tory stepped down in February following his confession of having an affair with a former employee in his office.
The long-time mayor was re-elected only four months ahead of his resignation, for his third straight term in office. During that campaign period, Tory had said that if elected, this would be his last term in office.
The poll is based on the responses provided by randomly selected Toronto residents, aged 18 and older. The survey was conducted by phone between April 25 and 26 The results are considered accurate plus or minus three per cent, 19 times out of 20.
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The six-year-old wolf-husky canine, and her owner Toby Heaps, are running on the promise to "Stop the Salt Assault" on city roads during the winter.
The overuse of salt on roads during the winter, Mr Heaps argued, can hurt the paws of tender-footed canines like Molly. His campaign also proposes a fix to housing unaffordability, a tax-hike on billion-dollar businesses and a ban on fossil-fuel heating systems in new homes and commercial buildings.
If he wins, he said he will designate Molly as the city's first honorary dog mayor.
"I think city hall would make better decisions if there was an animal in the room," he told the BBC.
But along with a desire for change, Mr Heaps said this election is an opportunity he simply could not afford to miss.
It is the first by-election in Toronto's history since six municipalities joined to form what is colloquially known as the "mega-city" 25 years ago. The contest was called after the resignation of John Tory, the city's mayor for the past eight years.
Mr Tory's rise to power in 2014 was seen as a welcome reprieve from the reign of Rob Ford, who made international headlines for admitting to smoking crack cocaine while in office.
But Mr Tory has been criticised for lacking a meaningful vision for Toronto, and for deepening inequality in one of the world's most unaffordable cities. A Toronto Star column described him as "rarely inspirational and too often overly cautious".
He is also blamed for overseeing a Toronto that is seemingly at a crisis point, especially as the city continues to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Many have pointed to an increase in gun violence, homelessness, housing prices and violence on public transit during his tenure.
Despite these criticisms, Mr Tory was elected three times - the most recent being in October 2022. Only a few dozen people had challenged him then, as he was seen as a shoo-in for re-election.
That is, until a scandal of his own forced him out of office a few months later.
A February article in the Toronto Star revealed the 68-year-old married mayor had an affair with a 31-year-old staffer during the Covid-19 pandemic. He resigned in the hours after it was published.
With him out of the picture, the upcoming by-election on 26 June is "a wide open race," said Nelson Wiseman, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Toronto.
"The difference between last time and this time is we don't know who is going to win," Prof Wiseman said.
The barrier for entry into the race is remarkably low. A fee of C$250 ($189) and 25 signatures is all a Torontonian needs to run for mayor. Unlike other large North American cities - namely New York, Los Angeles and Chicago - candidates do not run according to political party lines, which means there is no nomination process that would whittle down the pool.
Karen Chapple, the director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, said that with the field wide open, some are attracted to run just to see if they have a shot.
"There's kind of a gamblers aspect to it, kind of a Las Vegas aura," she told the BBC.
Coupled with the consistently low voter turnout in Toronto's mayoral elections, this means that most successful candidates already need a fair bit of name recognition.
The front-runner of the race is Olivia Chow - the political opposite of John Tory, who has served in public office since 1992 and is the widow of Jack Layton, the most celebrated leader in the history of Canada's left-leaning New Democratic Party. Many of her opponents are current and former city councillors, with their own profiles in the community.
But the breadth and diversity of candidates this time around - from Molly the dog to an 18-year-old fresh out of high school - tells a story of how fragmented the city has become, Ms Chapple said.
With a population of nearly three million, including many newcomers and immigrants, Toronto is the fourth-largest city in North America and consistently cited as one of the most diverse cities in the world. But with all those people from different walks of life, comes different perspectives on what kind of city Toronto should be.
Some are able to afford the city's staggering real-estate market, while others rent basement flats with roommates. There are commuters who live in the city's outer limits battling daily traffic and downtown dwellers jostling for space on the subway. Those different views are reflected in the pool of candidates. Former police chief Mark Saunders has promised to increase the city's police budget to tackle crime, while Ms Chow has focused her pledges on Toronto's housing crisis, promising to build homes on city-owned land.
"You're seeing sort of a reflection and microcosm of what Toronto is as a city," Ms Chapple said.
Meanwhile, Chloe Brown, a young policy analyst who has spent the bulk of career working with underserved communities, has bluntly stated that "Toronto does not need more policing," promising instead to fund mental health supports.
Experts and candidates have said that having more than 100 candidates on the ballot could both be a positive and a negative thing.
For one, it ensures that a range of perspectives are heard and included.
But on the other hand, Ms Chapple said it also means that Toronto's next mayor will likely be decided by a very small percentage of the population.
"You could have a situation where you could have an extreme minority essentially making decisions for the city," she said.
With so much competition, Mr Heaps - Molly's owner - said he is aware that he may not become Toronto's next mayor. His decision to run, he said, was born out of a conversation with his seven-year-old son.
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TORONTO — John Tory, who served two scandal-free terms as mayor of Toronto and had just been re-elected for a third, announced Friday he was resigning from the job due to an "inappropriate relationship" he had with a former member of his staff.
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TORONTO — John Tory, who served two scandal-free terms as mayor of Toronto and had just been re-elected for a third, announced Friday he was resigning from the job due to an "inappropriate relationship" he had with a former member of his staff.
The announcement came at a hastily called news conference, during which Tory offered few details about the affair.
He said the relationship with the employee in his office developed during the COVID-19 pandemic when he was spending long periods of time away from his wife Barbara, to whom he has been married for over 40 years.
"I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part," Tory said at city hall.
"As a result, I have decided I will step down as mayor so I can take the time to reflect on my mistakes and to do the work of rebuilding the trust of my family."
Tory said the relationship with the staffer ended by mutual consent earlier this year and the employee is now working at another job.
He said he will be working with city staff to ensure an orderly transition.
"I will be working with the city manager, the city clerk and Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie to ensure an orderly transition in the coming days," Tory said.
"As well, I think it is important for the Office of the Mayor not to in any way be tarnished and not to see the City government itself put through a prolonged period of controversy, arising out of this error in judgment on my part, especially in light of the challenges we face as a city.
"I am deeply sorry and apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all those hurt by my actions including my staff, my colleagues and the public service."
Tory, 68, was first elected mayor in 2014, partially on a promise to restore respectability to the office following the scandal-plagued tenure of his predecessor Rob Ford. Tory was re-elected to a third term in October.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 10, 2023.
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Mayor John Tory said he made it known he was in favour of the provincial government’s decision to grant Toronto’s next leader “strong mayor powers,” but he was forced to defend his lobbying efforts to strengthen them further, in a move that has many decrying an erosion of municipal democracy.
On Wednesday, Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs revealed Tory had requested further strength to the strong mayor powers. Previously, the mayor would have been able to veto council decisions, but now Tory will be able to pass motions with only a third of council support, as long as the issue is deemed of “provincial interest.”
Tory said his discussions with the province on the subject were held before Toronto’s municipal election and the expanded powers are necessary because he would have been unable to proactively bring forward provincial priorities without it.
“These enhanced authorities only apply to areas designated as being areas of provincial priority,” he said, “including housing and also maybe transportation or transit.”
Tory said there was no clarity on what the expanded rules would be until the legislation was tabled this week and said he has built trust with residents over his previous eight years and should continue to be trusted.
But critics were quick to note that he made no mention of the expanded provisions while campaigning and the new powers negatively impact municipal democracy.
Myer Siemiatycki, professor emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University, said the powers are completely unprecedented and not only don’t exist within North America, but any democratic body in the world.
“It’s an undermining of the whole purpose and role of municipal government,” he said. “This is turning the mayor into the chief provincial enforcement officer at city hall.”
“It’s really regrettable that Mayor Tory be complicit in this and this will hang over him as one of his legacies for the city of Toronto,” said Siemiatycki, adding that if the purpose is to build more housing, the means don’t justify the ends.
“That a mayor would want to have the ability to override the majority is such a flagrant overturning of the most basic of democratic principles. I just think it’s close to unbelievable that Mayor Tory would seek such powers or would exercise these on any issue.”
The move is also being criticized by veteran city councillor and noted Tory critic Josh Matlow, who said Tory has had been virtually unimpeded on every council motion he has put forward. When asked earlier by Global News to point to areas he was obstructed over his previous terms, the mayor said it was less of an issue of being blocked in a vote, but knowing he didn’t have the votes to push an issue forward.
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Matlow counters that a mayor doesn’t need these powers, because the province already has the authority to do what it wants. “We’re in a housing crisis and Doug Ford has the power to re-zone, change the planning act, do whatever he wants to build more housing, you don’t need a strong mayor power to do so,” he said.
“That is gaslighting, it’s a red herring, and shamelessly it’s the end of local democracy as we know it here in Toronto,” Matlow said.
The change also caught new city councillor Jamaal Myers off-guard, who described the affair as disappointing.
“This is the first instance I can recall of the mayor actually going to the province of Ontario to undermine the democratic legitimacy of Toronto’s government,” said Myers. As a Torontonian, he said he expects Tory to stand up for the city’s principles, not to be opposed to them.
“This place only operates on trust and good relationships and that’s set at the top.”
Myers said he’s not holding out much hope the province will backtrack on the new powers, but thinks that responsibility should be up to Tory. “What I’m more interested to see is if the mayor will backtrack on this, I think that’s really important,” he said.
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Last week, Toronto mayor John Tory announced his resignation after an affair with a young staffer came to light. But his unstinting attacks on working people and the poor should have rendered him unfit for office years ago.
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The resignation of Toronto’s latest right-wing mayor, John Tory, has prompted Canada’s media to reflect on how the outgoing mayor’s sex scandal has supposedly “stained” his reputation, his “honor,” and “personal integrity.”
Last Friday, Tory made an emergency press conference and announced his resignation. The sudden departure was due to an affair he had with a much younger staff member. In the lead-up to the announcement, according to the Toronto Star, Tory set up a “war room,” sought advice from the crisis communication firm Navigator, and leaned on his former campaign staff ahead of the bombshell news story.
“I have decided to step down as mayor so that I can take the time to reflect on my mistakes,” Tory said. “I am deeply sorry, and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all of those hurt by my actions, including my staff, my colleagues on city council and the public service.”
The face-palming and hyperventilating about the “stain” on the outgoing mayor’s reputation badly misidentifies the problem. Rather, his very rule — and his status as one of Canada’s oligarchs — is itself a blemish on the idea of public service.
The Mayor, His “Smear,” and His “Stains”
While the mayor has yet to issue a formal letter of resignation, the announcement clearly perturbed Canada’s pundits. The Globe and Mail called it a “sad departure,” and even a “tragedy.” It was none other than the Globe that lamented that Tory’s “sterling reputation” is “stained.”
Don Martin at CTV News, meanwhile, called the scandal an “ugly smear on his record.”
For TVO’s blog, Steve Paikin vowed to “call out some of the over-the-top, pearl-clutching, hypocritical behavior,” supposedly displayed by Tory’s critics.
Acknowledging that he has known the outgoing mayor personally for decades, Paikin could only offer his condolences, stating, “I’m sad for you that you won’t become the longest-serving mayor in Toronto history, which you would have been had you finished this term.”
For its part, the Toronto Star, dismissed the controversy as one of mere “puerility.” The paper praised the outgoing mayor as a “model of rectitude.” Columnist Rosie DiManno insisted Tory should not have resigned. “As sex scandals go,” DiManno demurred, “this is fundamentally about a decent man who betrayed his wife of some 44 years.”
Unfortunate phrasing aside, this gushing praise for the mayor and his “rectitude” reflects Canadian corporate media’s fawning love for the powerful more than it reflects anything about Tory’s tenure. As academic Peter Graefe put it to CBC, “in certain parts of the city the idea of being tough on the homeless and tough on crime was reassuring.” Indeed, those “parts of the city” are well represented by Canada’s media.
Setting aside the details of Tory’s scandal, the reality is that he is the scion of one of Canada’s most powerful families and a lifelong campaigner for the privileged and powerful. The true “indecency” of his tenure was his unstinting commitment to displacing and attacking the poor.
Tory Origins
John Tory is the heir of one of Toronto’s most elite families. After his great-grandfather founded Sun Life Financial, his grandfather founded Torys LLP — one of Canada’s “seven sisters” corporate law firms. His father served on the board of Rogers Communications, and John himself was given keys to the backrooms of Ontario’s long-ruling Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in his tartan-suited adolescent days.
After an initial rejection from Osgoode Hall Law School, which his grandfather helped found, Tory moved into the ruling PC government’s inner circle. This put him in the cockpit of Bill Davis’s Tory Ontario government in the 1970s and ’80s, as it carried out a draconian program of cuts, strikebreaking, and union busting. After the PC’s defeat, Tory mostly returned to the private sector.
After serving as CEO of Rogers Media from 1995 to ’99, Tory sat on the board of Metro Inc. just as CEO Pierre Lessard initiated a program of “massive” job cuts to increase its multibillion-dollar profits. Tory returned to campaigning in 2003, running for mayor of Toronto with the promise to increase Toronto’s police force by four hundred officers, criminalize panhandlers, and expand municipal deportations as part of his “criminals out” campaign. Speaking to an audience of business owners, Tory vowed to use the police to “clean up the streets.”
After his first mayoral campaign failed, Tory sought the leadership of the Ontario PC Party in 2004. He was quick to exhibit his right-wing bona fides. He promised expanded use of ankle monitoring bracelets by police, explaining that “if a gang member is ordered to stay away from gang hangouts, this will help to stop violations before they start.” From the beginning, his campaign evinced a disdain for the working poor that did not abate when he attained office.
In an article for the Toronto Star, Tory claimed that many minimum-wage earners are “unskilled” and flaunted his tireless opposition to minimum-wage raises. Vowing to end Ontario’s supposed problem of “big-spending, big-taxing, big-regulating, anti-business policies,” Tory campaigned to consult business owners to help set “a realistic minimum wage.” Tory also vowed to reintroduce the province’s “lifetime ban” for those who falsify documents to secure more support from Ontario’s sub-survival social assistance system.
Tory’s tenure as PC leader took an especially controversial turn in 2007, when he demanded the police crack the heads of Indigenous land defenders. During the dispute, Tory repeatedly called for police action against Six Nations land defenders who occupied the site of a proposed housing development in Caledonia. “The Caledonia occupation is about what happens when a group of people conclude that the process doesn’t work for them, and go on to conclude that the laws don’t apply to them,” he claimed.
Tory vowed to fine each individual $2,000 and any organization involved in the occupation up to $25,000 per day. He was unabashed in his intent to empower developers and municipalities to sue land defenders and dismissed calls for talks, stating, “We’re not going to put up with lawless behavior and we’re not going to sit at negotiating tables with people who break the law.”
In November 2006, Canada’s aboriginal affairs minister Michael Bryant dismissed calls to forcibly remove the land defenders. To justify the decision, Bryant cited the scandal that surrounded the murder of an unarmed Ojibwa man named Dudley George by tactical forces. Tory, incensed, would have none of it. In the interests of “tranquility in that community” and “respect for the rule of law,” Tory said it was essential “to have the protesters off the land.”
Right-Wing Mayorship
After returning to the private sector in 2009, Tory hosted a call-in radio show. As host, he famously pondered the “moral rectitude” of blackface. Following his stint bringing such profound pontifications to the public, he launched his campaign for Toronto’s mayor.
After a high-profile shooting, Tory caught flak for assuring his constituents that “the police are working aggressively and they’re working with full resources deployed to track these people, these profoundly antisocial kind of sewer rats, down.” He also promised Toronto police would “‘root out the thugs.”
Tory would soon have confrontations with Black Lives Matter Toronto. Falsely denouncing the organization for making “threats,” he offered his thoughts on why black people are disproportionately killed by police in a bizarre digression:
There are some very serious issues to be discussed. There are far too many black men and some women, but mostly black men, underachieving in school, dropping out of school and having trouble finding employment.
In 2021, Tory backed a wave of brutality against Toronto’s homeless, just as the city’s annual homeless deaths rose to over two hundred per year and shelters and warming centers burst at the seams. In what the mayor claimed was a “compassionate but also firm” response to protesters and residents, he tasked police to “clear” encampments. “We can’t just allow unsafe, unhealthy, illegal encampments to remain in public parks,” he said, after years of massively underfunding shelters, closing warming centers, and allowing social-housing units to collapse. The ensuing clearances were viciously violent. During my firsthand observation of the clearances, I witnessed police smash faces, pepper spray teenagers, and destroy property. In the aftermath of the onslaught, Tory shielded police from an official inquiry.
In light of Tory’s track record, it is puzzling that his scandal-fraught resignation has provoked such an outpouring of woe. The answer is simple: the people penning elegiac farewells to Tory are polite-society scribblers and haut monde functionaries. Tory is loved by Canada’s elites because he campaigned and governed for them as one of their own.
The real tragedy, of course, is that this system hands power to people like John Tory, who inevitably find better and more efficient ways to cut social programs, evict the poor, and criminalize the oppressed. His “moral rectitude” is that of a system that can’t exist without poverty and violence against the impoverished.
While Tory has made a token apology “to all those hurt by my actions,” those hurt by his policies are not polled and have no voice in government, mainstream politics, or the media.
He will not be missed.
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Feb 12, 2023 | 2:03 AM
Torontonians will return to the polls just months after October’s municipal election saw John Tory cruise to what was supposed to be a third full term.
But just when the byelection will take place remains unclear, with a city spokesperson saying as of yet, Tory has not submitted a formal letter of resignation to the City Clerk and therefore remains mayor.
After two relatively scandal-free terms at City Hall, Tory detonated a political bombshell late Friday when he admitted to having an “inappropriate relationship” with a former member of his staff and abruptly announced plans to resign from the city’s top job.
Tory has not said when he will formally step down, after which city council will need to declare the mayor’s office vacant.
That could happen as early as Wednesday, when councillors are set to debate the city’s proposed 2023 budget — which Tory had sole responsibility to prepare under the province’s new “strong mayor” powers.
In previous years, the city was able to appoint a successor to fill the mayor’s seat, but the new provincial legislation means Toronto is required to hold a byelection within 60 days of the mayor’s office being declared vacant.
Deputy mayor and councillor for Scarborough-Rouge Park Jennifer McKelvie will likely take on the role of interim mayor.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2023.
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The man who made this mayoral election possible, in the sense of necessary, is John Tory. For a moment, he seemed to truly vanish into a noble quest to “rebuild” his family’s trust. (Though they’re full-grown and mightn’t have exactly needed him 24/7 for that). Then this — bam! He’s back.
First, the deputy mayor he left in charge, Jennifer McKelvie, who promised to stay out of the election, endorses Ana Bailão, who was also Tory’s deputy mayor, before she fled to the corporate sector till Tory’s job came open. Then, when that proved ineffective, came leaks saying Tory himself would endorse, and the endorsement.
Tory said he did it because people were coming up to him on the street asking about the race — some of them perhaps managers of Bailao’s failing campaign. Tory’s weird twin, Doug Ford (yes, a bit like Schwarzenegger and Danny de Vito) vowed to stay out of the campaign too, then this week said he’d vote for Mark Saunders, our ex-top cop, who also quit early to “put his family first,” no further explanations.
Ford added in his witless way that we could “vote for whoever you want.” Thanks for that. Next day, having said he wouldn’t endorse anyone, he endorsed Saunders. Why? Because Olivia Chow as mayor would be an “unmitigated disaster” — the kind of term my dad used when he didn’t know what unmitigated meant but wanted to sound well read.
So now we’re getting to it. Tory and Ford can’t bear the thought of someone — Chow — in charge at city hall who they don’t have their hooks into.
Poor, underperforming John Tory. He botched his public roles as leader of Ontario’s PCs and mayor of Toronto. He did himself no favours as head of Rogers Communications, likely the most hated company in Canada. The one role he shone in was commissioner of the Canadian Football League, an unglamorous gig but he saved us from a fate in the NFL and the CFL does continue to limp along. It’s a legacy.
How Poilievre lost his smirk
A day after Monday’s four byelections, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre rose in question period and did not smirk. I hadn’t known that was possible. It seemed the most authentic thing about him though, as often happens, I didn’t fully realize it till it wasn’t there. The little upturns at the ends of his mouth followed by the mocking, derisive voice that seemed born from the smirk. It was the clearest sign the Tories themselves felt they’d lost the previous day’s elections, long-winded punditry notwithstanding.
Did the caucus tell him to can it? Or staff? That the disdain that played well to the Alberta base and the convoy crowd was unproductive in broader electoral contexts. His shift to smirkless was fairly seamless; who knew he even had another face to put on. But it left the question of how effective a sneer-free Poilievre will be. By Wednesday the smirk had started to wriggle back in.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s equivalent to the smirk is an irritating high school drama teacher’s inflated vocals, as if trying to force you to acknowledge how sincere he is, rather than letting you decide yourself. He seemed to drop it briefly, when Poilievre did. For a moment they looked like two exhausted touring actors slumped side by side taking off their makeup after the show.
Boris Johnson’s finest hour
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson resigned and won’t run again. Many supporters told him to do so “for his own dignity” but, to his credit, he rejected that, saying, “Dignity is a grossly overrated commodity.” It was a brilliant, even dazzling, exit line.
The point and genius of his career has been to endear himself by lampooning the kind of false dignity that has bamboozled their entire society, culminating in the idiocy of their royalty obsessions and his own ludicrous, pointless ascent to PM. He pulled back the curtain on those self-damaging delusions. It almost redeems him.
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Young Torontonians are questioning their faith in political leaders after Mayor John Tory announced his resignation late last week following an affair with a 31-year-old staffer.
Emilyne (Emmy) Egulu, 25, was shocked when he first heard the news. “I really saw the story as a clear example of a vast power imbalance in a relationship between a young employee and a boss,” he said.
Tory announced his resignation after Toronto Star reporters questioned the mayor's office, admitting in a press conference last Friday that he’d had a consensual relationship with a member of his staff during the pandemic that ended in the last six weeks.
The communications lead at Ontario Place for All, a grassroots community group lobbying to keep Ontario Place a public space, pointed to a 2020 Statistics Canada report that found young people, women, people with disabilities and LGBTQ2S people were more likely to experience “inappropriate sexualized behaviours and gender-based discrimination.”
Young people know all too well about abuse of power in the workplace, 25-year-old Emilyne (Emmy) Egulu said after Mayor John Tory announced his resignation late last week following an affair with a 31-year-old staffer. #TOpoli
Relationships are problematic when one of the parties has more power and control over the workplace environment, Egulu said. “For me, it’s evident that employers truly shape the condition of an employee's work, and they have the ability to fire them. Therefore, this relationship between John Tory and the young staffer allows me to question if consent was freely given,” he added.
The situation also made him ponder if the relationship affected Tory’s responsibilities and duties at City Hall.
Egulu agrees with a recent survey that found younger people trust politicians less than older generations. The survey, conducted by Proof Strategies before Tory’s announcement, gauged the level of trust in Canada. It shows 39 per cent of generation Zers and 45 per cent of millennials think most people can be trusted, compared to 52 per cent of boomers and 76 per cent of Canadians aged 75 and older. The online survey was conducted last month using a point-scale system and included 1,502 Canadians.
“Politicians have a lot of work to do,” Proof Strategies CEO and president Bruce MacLellan said in a news release. “While trust is improving as we surface from the darkest hours of the pandemic, we see an emerging tsunami of change with younger generations losing trust and changing expectations.”
The survey calls the disparity between younger and older Canadians a “generational trust gap” due to differing perceptions of the role of government and satisfaction with politicians. Ongoing issues such as climate change and unaffordable housing costs are also creating “a new paradigm that could be a barrier to trust with younger Canadians,” the report notes.
Saman Tabasinejad, organizing director at Progress Toronto, a not-for-profit organization advocating for a progressive city, said generation Z and millennials have not seen the government as working for them.
“We are in a worse position now, here in Toronto, than we were 10 years ago. We can’t imagine futures in the city, living in the city comfortably, and frankly, we feel like many of those in power don’t have our best interests at heart and they are not there to work for us,” Tabasinejad said. “Young people are being forced out of the city, and it's understandable why millennials and generation Zers do not trust politicians.”
While the survey notes young people value the institution of government, Egulu said: “We want leaders who keep their campaign promises and address issues that matter the most to Canadian youth.
“I hope that the next mayor can truly abide by the codes of conduct meant to prevent inappropriate sexualized behaviour from happening again at City Hall.”
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John Tory’s resignation over his affair with a younger staffer has raised questions about why a relationship between two adults constitutes news and whether he should have said he would step down. Experts point to the difference in their power levels which they say can make it difficult to fully and freely consent.
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John Tory's resignation as mayor of Toronto over his affair with a younger member of his staff has raised questions about why a relationship between two adults constitutes news and whether he should have said he would step down.
Tory, who is 68 and has been married for more than 40 years, confirmed to the Toronto Star that the relationship with the 31-year-old former staffer started when he was the woman's boss, and he called it a "serious error in judgment."
But more important than Tory's marital status or the difference in their ages, according to some experts, is the discrepancy in their levels of power and the fact that he was her boss. A situation that can make it difficult — some would say impossible — to fully and freely give consent.
"How do you freely give consent when someone is your boss, has the power to fire you, to get you raises, to ensure that you can move up in the company, that you can connect with people?" asked Farrah Khan, CEO of Possibility Seeds, a consulting company that works on gender equity.
'Power differential'
Khan says it's possible that when someone is in a relationship like that, they may not even realize there's a power imbalance.
"Because at the time you may think you're different, special," Khan said. "But in the end, there is a power differential." She says that in a relationship like the one between Tory and his staffer, the culpability and responsibility lies with the person in the position of power.
"A person in a position of power — political power, employer power, wealth … they have to take responsibility for their actions," she said. "Yet the person who oftentimes wears it is the person that was the employee … and it can affect their whole lives."
Toronto's Code of Conduct for members of council does not explicitly prohibit relationships between colleagues, and employment lawyer Hermie Abraham says many companies and organizations don't have policies or guidelines around romantic relationships at all.
"So they'll run into a lot of these grey areas when they have issues that come up but don't have a way of dealing with them," she said.
David Rider, the Toronto Star's city hall bureau chief, tweeted that he received a fair bit of negative feedback following the publication of the story last Friday — essentially accusing the Star of simply outing Tory's affair and ruining his family. The former staffer has not publicly commented since the news broke.
Rider told the CBC's Ontario Today on Monday that he and his colleagues put a great deal of consideration into whether the story was in the public interest — and ultimately decided that it came down to the power dynamic.
"The main thing was, were they working together, with him essentially being in control of her career while they were in this relationship," he said.
Abraham, who owns the Toronto law firm Advocation, says she does not believe that a subordinate is always unable to give consent.
"Not everybody is a victim of circumstance simply because they are dating somebody who is at a higher level or even older than them," she said.
If individuals do choose to enter into a relationship with a power differential, they need to disclose that relationship, Abraham says, and the person who's a subordinate or the person who's a boss needs to move so they're not in the same reporting structure.
But she cautions against assuming the subordinate has been pressured into the relationship.
"I do feel that you can have a consensual relationship even if there is a power dynamic," she said. "I think that we have to hear from the people about how they view the relationship rather than impose our own views and judgments about what that relationship is."
Abraham says doing so sells short the people making choices about relationships they want to have. Since there are many kinds of dynamics that can potentially create a perception of imbalance in a relationship, she says any of them could be used to call a relationship into question.
"People can say that about male-female relationships because they don't feel that there's equal power distribution. They can say that about mixed race relationships. We don't know."
Concept of consent is 'fluid'
Muneeza Sheikh, a senior partner at Levitt Sheikh who works in the areas of labour, employment and human rights law, says she believes the concept of consent is still "fluid" in many Canadian workplaces, which she calls "problematic," given the number of reported cases of workplace harassment she says lawyers deal with.
A recent study conducted for the Canadian Women's Foundation found that 55 per cent of people in Canada do not fully understand consent when it comes to sexual activity
"Oftentimes, we see that where there is a reporting relationship, even if it's not necessarily a direct-reporting relationship, you feel compelled as a subordinate employee to concede to your boss's requests — whether that might be, 'Let's go for lunch together, let's have dinner together,'" Sheikh said.
If those lunches and dinners evolve into a relationship, she says there could then be questions about how the relationship really started.
Sheikh, who also works as the integrity commissioner for the city of Brampton, Ont., says at that point, there may be the need for a conversation with the subordinate employee, "to determine, were you in this relationship because you felt like you couldn't say no? Or is this just no different than you simply just meeting your person in the workplace, which of course could happen."
She also says, as a human rights and employment lawyer, it's important not to make assumptions.
"If we have an employee that says, 'Look, I was comfortable with the relationship, I was comfortable with the arrangement,' I mean, we're not the moral police, right? We're just, we want to ensure that everything is above board from a legal standpoint."
There can be an impact on other employees, though, who learn about a senior person in a relationship with a subordinate.
"The implications of that could have a long lasting negative and toxic impact in the workplace because the perception could very well be that there was this relationship, that maybe there were certain benefits that were provided to the employee that, you know, he or she had a relationship with," Sheikh said.
She also noted that when these types of situations involve an elected official, there are other implications.
"Public accountability is a real thing," she said. "They're also electing you because of who you are. And so you have to embody that."
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Early Life and Family
John H. Tory was born into a prominent Toronto family with a strong presence in law, business and media. (See also Business Elites.) His grandfather, John S.D. Tory, founded what is now one of the largest law firms in Canada, Torys LLP. Tory’s father, John A. Tory, was also a lawyer. He left the family firm to act as chief financial advisor to Ken Thomson during the expansion of the Thompson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters). He later sat on the board of the fledgling Rogers Communications Inc. at the invitation of family friend Ted Rogers.
John H. Tory attended secondary school at University of Toronto Schools. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto in 1975. He first dabbled in broadcasting while a university student. From 1972 to 1979, he worked as a radio reporter for CFTR and CHFI, AM radio stations that belonged to the Rogers Radio News Network. Tory graduated from York University‘s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1978. He has been married to Barbara Hackett since 1978. They have four children together.
Early Career in Law and Politics
After finishing law school, Tory joined the family firm, then known as Tory, Tory, DesLauriers and Binnington, in 1980. Later renamed Torys LLP, it is one of Bay Street’s most powerful corporate law firms. Tory left the firm in 1981 to make his first official foray into politics. He served as principal secretary to Ontario premier Bill Davis and as associate secretary of the Ontario cabinet until 1985, when Davis retired. Tory then served as an advisor to the Canadian Special Envoy on Acid Rain, which was appointed by the Brian Mulroney government. (See also Acid Rain.)
Tory returned to the family law firm in 1986, rising to the role of managing partner. During the 1988 federal election, Tory worked as operations director for Prime Minister Mulroney’s successful re-election campaign. After Mulroney stepped down in 1993, Tory led the election campaign for Mulroney’s successor, Kim Campbell. During that campaign, Tory approved an infamous attack ad. It emphasized Liberal leader Jean Chretien’s facial paralysis, caused by Bell’s palsy, and asked, “Is this a prime minister?” The Progressive Conservatives were trounced by the Liberals in the election. The PCs fell from 151 House of Commons seats to two.
Business Endeavours
In 1995, Tory became CEO of Rogers Media Inc. following its acquisition of Maclean Hunter, a major media conglomerate. In 1999, he left Rogers Media to become president and CEO of its subsidiary Rogers Cable Inc., at the time Canada’s largest television and Internet provider.
Starting in 1992, Tory served as volunteer chairman of the Canadian Football League. He was then the league's commissioner from 1997 to 2000. He acted as chair of fundraising campaigns for the United Way, St. Michael’s Hospital and the TIFF Bell Lightbox. He was also a founding board member of Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance (2010–14), a city-building initiative.
Return to Politics
Tory returned to politics in 2003. He ran for mayor of Toronto but lost to David Miller, garnering 38 per cent of the vote to Miller’s 43.3 per cent. Tory then turned his attention to provincial politics. He was elected leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in 2004. He won a seat in a 2005 by-election, becoming MPP for the riding of Dufferin Peel Wellington Grey.
In the 2007 election, Tory pledged that a PC government would fund schools for all faiths, not just Catholic schools. The $400 million proposal did not resonate with voters and was blamed for the party’s loss to the Ontario Liberals. Tory, who was then running for a seat in the Don Valley West riding in Toronto, lost that race to Liberal Kathleen Wynne. In 2009, Tory tried to regain a seat in the legislature by contesting a by-election in Haliburton — Kawartha Lakes but was again defeated. He stepped down as party leader the next day.
Tory publicly considered running for mayor of Toronto in 2010 but ultimately chose “to pursue a different course with my life and career.” He said at the time, “you don't need to be a politician to… find ways to contribute.” When asked what voters should look for in the next mayor, Tory told the Toronto Star in January 2010, “I hope as the campaign unfolds that we see the ideas but also the character, the competence, the collegiality that is going to be needed to lead the city effectively, because right now I think city government is dysfunctional.” In October of that year, Rob Ford was elected mayor.
Broadcasting
According to the National Post, Tory was drawn to broadcasting even as a top executive at Rogers, and hosted a community access public affairs show on Rogers Cable. In 2009, after leaving provincial politics, Tory began hosting a daily three-hour afternoon radio show called The Live Drive on CFRB (Newstalk 1010), Canada’s largest talk radio station. He had often said that hosting a radio program was always his dream job. He held the hosting position until 2014, when he stepped down to again run for mayor of Toronto.
Successful Campaign for Mayor (2014)
Tory entered the race for mayor in the final months of Rob Ford’s tumultuous term. By the time the campaign kicked off, Ford, who was running for re-election, had been stripped of key executive powers following an admission that he had smoked crack cocaine while in office. Tory was seen as a steady and experienced alternative who shared Ford’s fiscal conservatism, though not his firebrand approach or personal problems. Tory’s other main opponent was Olivia Chow, a former Toronto city councillor, MP for the New Democratic Party, and the widow of federal NDP leader Jack Layton.
In September, Ford was diagnosed with cancer and was replaced as a candidate by his brother, then-councillor Doug Ford. Despite Doug Ford’s late entry into the race and the perception that he was less popular than his brother, the final result was closer than expected. Tory was elected with 394,775 votes (40.3 per cent). Doug Ford received 330,610 votes (33.7 per cent) and Chow 226,879 (23.2 per cent).
During the election campaign, Tory promised to address Toronto’s transit woes through a 22-stop surface rail line called SmartTrack, and a new subway line into downtown. He also promised to build separated bike lanes and other cycling infrastructure, to bridge the political divide between downtown and suburban residents, and to keep taxes low.
First Term as Mayor (2014–18)
Over the first half of his four-year term, Tory won praise for restoring calm, consistency and a sense of normalcy in the wake of predecessor Rob Ford’s tumultuous term. He restored civility at City Hall and brought a workmanlike, professional approach to the mayor's office. He initiated important reforms on poverty reduction and affordable housing. He also restored several transit services that had been slashed by the previous administration.
Tory was tripped up by the debate over the controversial police practice of “street checks” or “carding” — collecting personal information on people stopped by police — a practice seen as discriminatory against Black people and other minorities. After first supporting carding, Tory changed his mind and said it should be banned. He then passed the issue to the provincial government, which banned the practice in 2017.
Tory was criticized for unveiling a SmartTrack system that was much smaller in scope than what he had promised in the campaign. The original plan of building 22 stations along existing rail lines by 2021 was eventually shrunk to only five stations by 2026, at a cost of $1.46 billion. Construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, begun in 2011 and scheduled for completion by 2020, also faced similar delays. As of December 2022, there was no completion date in sight.
Tory announced on 1 May 2018 that he would run for re-election. By the end of August, polls showed that he had a 58 per cent approval rating, while 65 per cent of respondents said they would vote for him. In the election on 22 October 2018, Tory cruised to victory with 63.5 per cent of the vote. Former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat placed a distant second with 23.6 per cent.
Second Term as Mayor (2018–22)
Tory had campaigned for a second term on a platform that included building more affordable housing, investing in arts and culture, improving public transit, and introducing new road safety measures. Construction of the downtown relief line for the Toronto subway was scheduled to be completed by 2029, two years ahead of schedule, thanks to a $162 million budget increase Tory secured in 2019.
Canada’s first case of COVID-19 was recorded in Toronto on 23 January 2020. Tory declared a local state of emergency on 23 March. Schools were closed and teaching was shifted to remote learning. In May, Tory announced the development of the ActiveTO program to create more space for the general public in certain neighbourhoods by closing or restricting major roadways each weekend. Tory implemented mask mandates in indoor public spaces in July. Working closely with the province, he placed Toronto under lockdown from 23 November to 26 December. Tory also oversaw a successful vaccination campaign, including the administration of a world record 26, 771 doses on 27 June 2021, which Tory declared Toronto Vaccine Day.
In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd murder in the US and the death of Toronto resident Regis Korchinski-Paquet in the course of a mental health check by police, a motion was introduced in Toronto City Council to defund the Toronto Police Service by $122 million, or 10 per cent of its annual budget, and divert that amount to social services. Tory instead pledged $5 million to equip police officers with body cameras. He also created a Community Crisis Service program that would reform the police by offering “a robust system of social supports and services.” It would also develop “alternative models of community safety response,” including having unarmed social workers respond to non-violent incidents and mental health checks. The program was officially launched in March 2022.
In summer 2021, Tory drew criticism for spending $2 million to have police clear homeless encampments from several parks. Violent clashes occurred between protestors and riot police as encampments were cleared. The city also shut down a local initiative called Toronto Tiny Shelters, which built tiny homes to help people stay warm in the winter. Tory’s administration argued that the shelters, built on city property, were fire hazards, and pointed to a fatal fire at an encampment in February as reason for concern.
By summer 2022, the ActiveTO program had reached a turning point. Cycling advocates and residential groups called for the weekend road closures to be permanent. But some residents and businesses argued that rebounding traffic volumes post-lockdown necessitated a return to normal traffic flows. The Toronto Blue Jays, for example, argued that closing Lake Shore West would hurt attendance at home games. Tory, along with a majority on city council, voted to limit closures on Lake Shore West rather than have them every weekend. However, this led to a conflict of interest complaint against Tory, who is both a paid member of the Rogers family trust and a shareholder of Rogers Communications, which owns the Blue Jays. In December 2022, the city’s integrity commissioner exonerated Tory, finding that he did not break any conflict of interest rules. However, Tory had found himself in a similarly conflicted situation in the fall of 2021, when his position with Rogers put him in the middle of a family feud for control of the company.
Tory often said publicly that he had promised his wife he would not seek a third term as mayor. But in March 2022, he announced that he had received his wife’s blessing to run for re-election. His eventual victory was widely seen as a foregone conclusion. His victory in the election on 24 October proved even more lopsided than in 2018. He won 62 per cent of the vote, while the second-place finisher, progressive urban planner Gil Penalosa, took only 17.9 per cent. Tory won the mayoral vote in all 25 of the city’s wards. Voter turnout was only 29.2 per cent, a record low. Tory’s victory put him on track to serve as mayor for 12 years, which would have made him Toronto’s longest-serving mayor, surpassing Art Eggleton’s 11 years in the role (1980–91).
Third Term (2022–23)
On 8 December 2022, the Ontario government passed legislation giving so-called “strong mayor” powers to the mayors of Ottawa and Toronto. The powers — which include the ability to unilaterally draft and table the city’s budget, to pass measures with the support of only one-third of council, and to veto bylaws approved by council — were designed to help achieve the Ontario government’s goal of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years. The powers were criticized by many as anti-democratic. Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe said that he would not use them. Tory said that he would do so only to advance policies of “citywide importance.”
Tory drew criticism for increasing the city’s police budget by $48.3 million while allocating no new money for community services such as shelters and warming centres for those experiencing homelessness. Many critics pointed to such service cuts as the reason for a 60 per cent-increase in violent incidences on Toronto transit since 2019.
Resignation
On 10 February 2023, the Toronto Star published a story alleging that the 68-year-old Tory had had an affair with a 31-year-old staff member. The affair was said to have begun during the COVID-19 pandemic and was ongoing during the 2022 mayoral campaign, though the staffer had moved on from her role at city hall in early 2021. Shortly after the story was published, Tory admitted it was true. He said that “permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part… I’m deeply sorry and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all those hurt by my actions… I’ve decided that I will step down as mayor so that I can take the time to reflect on my mistakes and to do the work of rebuilding the trust with my family.”
Tory remained in office until after a council meeting on 15 February to finalize the city’s 2023 operating budget. This drew sharp criticism from many on the left, while many on the right, including Premier Doug Ford, urged Tory to continue as mayor. But Tory announced that he would indeed follow through on his resignation. It became official at 5:00 p.m. on 17 February 2023.
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During his years out of office – between the end of his stint as the leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives and his victory in the 2014 mayoral election – John Tory spoke often, and with what seemed like conviction, about the city’s wobbly fiscal foundation. On his radio show, through Civic Action and in numerous interviews, he opined regularly about the importance of establishing new revenue tools, like a sales tax, to fund transit and other city-building projects.
But during his four years in office, the activist version of John Tory was eclipsed by the one running for re-election today, a politician who has made a virtue of keeping property tax hikes at or below the rate of inflation (a table stakes move in Toronto politics) and boasts about “killing” a proposed storm-water surcharge on large paved properties to finance increasingly necessary flood-mitigation measures.
At the Toronto Region Board of Trade debate tonight, he will assure a business audience that these stances exemplify leadership. But to my eye, they reveal the way he’s cynically washed his hands of one of the core responsibilities of the mayoralty, which is ensuring the fiscal sustainability of the services the city provides to residents. What’s more, afraid of being castigated for unpopular budget cuts, he has, instead, pushed to approve wildly expensive projects on a wing and a prayer.
Lest anyone read the foregoing commentary as mere lefty spin, take a look at the consequences of a once unpopular fiscal choice — former mayor David Miller’s push, in 2008, to get council to adopt a municipal land transfer tax (MLTT) to diversify the city’s revenues.
Just during Tory’s four years in office, the MLTT has brought in a total of $2.5 billion, rising from $431 million in 2015 to $532 million in 2016, $716 million in 2017 and $818 million in 2018.
The current mayor voted for each and every one of these budgets, and has never so much as sleep-talked about the prospect of repealing the MLTT.
Here’s what all that revenue actually bought for Torontonians:
In 2015, the MLTT paid for the Toronto Fire Service ($432 million) or Parks, Forestry and Recreation ($438 million) or the public health and library divisions together. Pick which one you would have preferred to eliminate in its absence.
In 2016, the MLTT covered the cost of either fire services ($434 million), parks and recreation ($450 million) or the combined budgets of public health and the public library system ($436 million), as well as all outlays for planning ($95 million).
In 2017, the MLTT paid for the combination of parks and recreation and libraries ($656 million), or public health plus children’s services ($728 million), or the city’s entire fire and paramedic expenditures ($651 million).
And in this year’s budget, that dreaded tax — which the real estate industry erroneously claimed would kill the market back when it was passed — paid for planning, parks & recreation and libraries combined; planning, fire and paramedic services combined; or every single long-term care bed and subsidized daycare space in Toronto.
Now consider what Tory has brought in in terms of the city’s revenue picture. During his four years in office, the aggregate increases in property taxes amounted to just $580 million – a sum that doesn’t quite cover the interest the City paid on its accumulated debt in 2018 alone.
You do the math.
(Clarification: In late 2016, Tory pitched a road toll scheme for the Gardiner and the Don Valley Parkway, with estimated revenues of $200 million per year earmarked for an infrastructure capital fund. The plan, derided by some as simply a way of paying for the $1.5 billion Gardiner re-build, required provincial approval,. But Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne pivoted from a yes to a no after her 905 caucus members balked. Officials in the Tory’s office say that in the aftermath, Queen’s Park pledged to gradually increase gas taxes starting in 2019, with a potential windfall to the City of $170 million per year. But given Doug Ford’s pledge to cut gas taxes, it seems highly unlikely that Toronto will see much in the way of new funding.)
My point is that to a degree that most Torontonians don’t realize or won’t acknowledge, this single additional tax, though controversial when adopted, has allowed the City and Council to perform some of the most basic functions residents expect from the municipality.
Not only did the sky not fall when the MLTT came into effect; it’s fair to say that without these additional revenues, Toronto residents today would be living in a city that does scarcely more than the bare minimum in terms of service delivery.
Yes, municipal officials would keep the traffic lights (mostly) working and the sewers from crumbling. But we’d have long ago forfeited those amenities that make Toronto livable, equitable, peaceful and safe.
So pick your poison. I know what I’d choose.
Miller, it must be said, had not only the courage of his convictions; he also knew the math, and could see where the city’s unsustainable financial condition would lead. To my eye, the hallmark of civic leadership is anticipating future crises and finding ways to avert them, even if that means absorbing cheap shots and criticism from those who have always griped about the cost of local government.
I assume Tory understands these numbers, and he has surely read the long-term fiscal forecasts city staff produces each year. Given the foregoing, his intransigent disinclination to make difficult but necessary choices is simply breathtaking. Indeed, I’d argue that the late Rob Ford was far more honest in his approach. He genuinely believed the city should do a lot less than it does, and tried to bring about that result with a program of aggressive budget cutting.
Tory, of course, wants to have it both ways: he craves to be seen to be a progressive city-builder who promotes hugely ambitious projects like Rail Deck Park, Smart Track and the Scarborough subway extension, as well as (cosmetic) equity gestures, like free transit for kids or the city’s anti-poverty strategy.
But when it comes to paying the piper, Tory won’t spend so much as a cent of his political capital — of which he still has plenty — and instead pledges to pay with money the city doesn’t now have and may never, in fact, receive.
Recall, as well, that two budget cycles ago, former city manager Peter Wallace, a bureaucrat with reams of experience, sternly warned council and the mayor about the looming structural deficit ahead.
Citing $29 billion in unfunded projects in the city’s long-term capital budget and the pressing need for additional operating revenues, he likened Toronto’s problems to the risks facing a smoker who has yet to be diagnosed with lung cancer. “As a public servant,” he told a University of Toronto audience, “I take risks with great seriousness; I advise that risks should be mitigated, managed, and minimal. And right now, we are very heavy smokers in the City of Toronto.”
Tory irresponsibly ignored Wallace’s advice, and did so at a time when the political likelihood of gaining acceptance for new revenues was high. If he wins this fall’s election, he’ll almost certainly have to contend with downloading from the Doug Ford government at Queen’s Park, as well as yanked funding to signature projects (my bet is that the Tories will ice SmartTrack, redolent as it is of Liberal influence).
What’s more, I’d say it’s highly likely that Ford, with his obsession for meddling into the city’s business, will gladly veto any attempt by Toronto council to pass new taxes or levies, even those currently allowed under the City of Toronto Act.
Tory’s moment, in other words, has probably passed. While I suppose there’s a chance he may try to introduce more revenue tools in his second and presumably last term, I’m not holding my breath. The mayor is not going to become a bold leader at this late stage in the game.
So to the business leaders who will be present at tonight’s debate, I’d like to pose two basic questions: Do you really believe Tory has made the tough but necessary choices that will fortify the city’s balance sheet and mitigate the fiscal risks it will soon face? And would you run your companies this way?
An honest answer to both would be no, and that, ultimately, is the harsh verdict that must be rendered on John Tory’s record in office.
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Mayor Tory has worked to build the city up as a global hub for technology and innovation. He has worked to secure billions of dollars in support from the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario for transit expansion, affordable housing and infrastructure investments.
Over the last two years, the Mayor has been leading Toronto’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring that the City government does everything it can to help people get through this emergency. As we’ve made progress fighting the pandemic, the Mayor has also focused on the city’s reopening to help build up the economy and create jobs. He is determined that Toronto will come back stronger than ever.
Under Mayor Tory’s leadership, the City has implemented innovative programs to help residents and businesses safely deal with the challenges of the pandemic.
Throughout the crisis, the Mayor has worked with City Council, the federal and provincial governments, and surrounding municipalities. His commitment to strong partnerships and cooperation has helped deliver billions of dollars in emergency support for Toronto and all municipalities across Canada. This funding has helped increase services responding directly to the pandemic and protected frontline municipal services we know all residents rely on.
A major part of the ongoing response to the pandemic has been the Team Toronto effort underway to deliver COVID-19 vaccine doses to all Toronto residents, including kids ages 5-11. Toronto leads major world cities when it comes to COVID-19 vaccination rates thanks to this effort championed by Mayor Tory.
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June 7, 2022
Mayor John Tory officially launches Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation – a seniors-focused social housing provider
Today, Mayor John Tory officially launched the Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation (TSHC) and the official start of its operations as a seniors-focused social housing provider in Toronto.
Mayor Tory was joined by Deputy Mayor Ana Bailão (Davenport), Councillor Paula Fletcher (Toronto Danforth), TSHC Board Vice-Chair Lawrence D’Souza, TSHC CEO Tom Hunter, and TSHC tenants to celebrate the launch.
Over time, the TSHC team will work with tenants and stakeholders to co-create the organization’s mission, vision and values, establish a tenant engagement system, build out the integrated service model and develop programs that enable senior tenants (ages 59 and over) to age in place with dignity and in comfort.
Wholly-owned by the City, TSHC was created in 2021 as an important part of the City’s Tenants First plan. Council direction was provided for the TSHC to assume operating responsibility for 83 seniors-designated buildings owned by Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC).
The new TSHC has already welcomed employees who previously worked for TCHC’s Seniors Housing Unit. TSHC is now the landlord for the nearly 15,000 tenants who live in the seniors-designated buildings. TCHC will continue to own the buildings and be responsible for capital repairs.
In association with the launch, a tree will be planted and a commemorative plaque installed outside the building at 145 Strathmore Blvd. – one of four TSHC regional offices.
Events at the other three regional offices across the city will follow in the coming days:
Wednesday, June 8, 10 a.m., 3050 Bathurst St.
Thursday, June 9, 10 a.m., 100 Cavell Ave.
Friday, June 10, 10 a.m., 1700 Finch Ave. E.
Information about TSHC is available on the Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation website: www.torontoseniorshousing.ca
Information about Tenants First is available on the City’s Tenants First webpage: www.toronto.ca/tenantsfirst
Information about TCHC is available on the Toronto Community Housing website: www.torontohousing.ca
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“My congratulations and best wishes to the Toronto Seniors Housing team as they step into their critical role as a social housing provider to seniors in Toronto. The creation of the Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation delivers on a commitment we made to provide seniors with safe, well-maintained homes and improved living conditions, services and experiences and to lay the foundation for that by having an organization in place which could focus exclusively on seniors housing. This is an important milestone in the City’s Tenants First vision coming to life, and I would like to thank all those who made today’s important milestone possible.”
– Mayor John Tory
“The creation of the Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation is an important part of the City’s Tenants First vision, a plan to ensure tenants who are seniors have access to the right services and are active participants in their communities. Congratulations to the Toronto Community Housing and Toronto Seniors Housing teams for their work on this transition and launch.”
– Deputy Mayor Ana Bailão (Davenport), Chair of the Housing and Planning Committee
“Today’s launch is an exciting step forward in the City’s expanded efforts to deliver exceptional care for our seniors. Through an integrated service model, Toronto Seniors Housing can better meet the needs of its tenants and enable them to age where they live, in comfort and with dignity. ”
– Deputy Mayor Michael Thompson (Scarborough Centre), Chair of the Economic and Community Development
“The launch of the new Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation is an exciting step for the City. It will ensure that these senior tenants have better access to the housing, health, and community supports they need.”
– Councillor Paula Fletcher (Toronto-Danforth)
“We expect to receive services tailored to all seniors in the portfolio, such as cleaning, repairs and safety and security. It is important to maintain a secure, safe environment for seniors living here who may not have family members or relatives close by. We hope our daily lives will get better with more activities tailor-made for seniors and organized by Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation.”
– Sinan Wu, Toronto Seniors Housing tenant
“Today, Toronto Seniors Housing begins to put down roots in the communities we serve. This is an exciting opportunity to rethink the way social housing and supports can be tailored to the needs of seniors. A tremendous amount of work preceded today’s milestone, and the Board extends its sincere thanks to the senior staff and transition team, our partners at Toronto Community Housing and the City of Toronto, and to the Senior Tenants Advisory Committee and other tenant leaders who have generously advised and guided us. Thank you.”
– Lawrence D’Souza, Vice-Chair, Toronto Seniors Housing Board of Directors
“As we transition to an operating landlord and celebrate the exceptional, collaborative efforts that led to this moment, we at Toronto Seniors Housing are keenly aware of the momentous task ahead. Tenants are counting on us to provide more than just a place to live. We must and we will connect people with the supports that will help them stay in their homes, have successful tenancies and enjoy a better quality of life. We embark upon this journey with humility and openness, looking to listen and learn and to co-create our corporation with the people who work here and the people we serve. My sincere thanks go to all who have brought us to this moment. We know that we can count on your continued support and partnership as we move forward.”
– Tom Hunter, CEO, Toronto Seniors Housing
“On this historic day, I congratulate CEO Tom Hunter, the Toronto Seniors Housing transition team led by Michael Sherar, and all our former Seniors Housing Unit employees who have transferred to the new corporation. Staff of both corporations and the City have done an incredible amount of hard work to make the transition as smooth as possible. Toronto Community Housing looks forward to working collaboratively with Toronto Seniors Housing as aligned organizations contributing to the City’s vision of better housing for seniors.”
– Jag Sharma, President and CEO, Toronto Community Housing
Toronto is home to more than 2.9 million people whose diversity and experiences make this great city Canada’s leading economic engine and one of the world’s most diverse and livable cities. As the fourth largest city in North America, Toronto is a global leader in technology, finance, film, music, culture, and innovation, and consistently places at the top of international rankings due to investments championed by its government, residents and businesses. For more information visit www.toronto.ca or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/CityofToronto, on Instagram at www.instagram.com/cityofto or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cityofto.
About Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation
Toronto Seniors Housing was created in 2021, as part of the City of Toronto’s Tenants First plan and began operating in June 2022. It partners closely with Toronto Community Housing, which owns the buildings that Toronto Seniors Housing operates.
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John Tory is the 65th Mayor of Toronto. Born and raised in Toronto, Mayor Tory has spent his career promoting and giving back to the city he loves. As a lawyer, talk show host, businessman, Member of Provincial Parliament and Leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park, and finally as Mayor, he has long believed that the diversity of Toronto is its strength. As Mayor, John’s focus will be on bringing the city together as One Toronto.
Among Mayor Tory’s top priorities are tackling transit and traffic congestion. He is focused on taking action to reduce commute times so Toronto residents can get to work on time and home to their families sooner. Mayor Tory is also getting to work on Toronto’s transit crisis by getting on with the Scarborough subway and beginning work on the SmartTrack line, a 53 kilometre, 22-station surface subway that would provide all day, two-way service across the city and bring needed relief to the congested Yonge subway.
The early years of Mayor Tory’s career were spent practicing law in Toronto, and he was later elected as a managing partner of one of Canada’s biggest law firms. In the 1980’s he served as Principal Secretary to Premier Bill Davis and as Associate Secretary of the Ontario Cabinet. In September 2004, Mayor Tory was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. In 2005, as PC Party Leader, Mayor Tory would serve as the Leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park.
Mayor Tory has an extensive background in volunteer community service. He served as volunteer Chairman and Commissioner of the Canadian Football League and has chaired fundraising campaigns for St. Michael’s Hospital and the United Way. He has also held leadership positions in a wide range of charitable organizations ranging from Canadian Paraplegic Association, Crimestoppers, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto Association for Community Living, the United Way, and the Women's Legal Education & Action Fund (LEAF).
Mayor Tory’s community work has been widely recognized. Mayor Tory was a founding Board Member and Chair of the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance. He is a recipient of both the Paul Harris and Mel Osborne Awards from the Rotary and Kiwanis organizations respectively and was named a Life Member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. He is also the recipient of an African Canadian Achievement Award and the Harry Jerome Award. Mayor Tory was recently awarded the Order of Ontario for being a “consummate champion for the Greater Toronto Region."
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With close to two million registered voters in the City of Toronto, the almost 350,000 votes Tory received – or just about 18 per cent of the electorate – was enough to give him a 61 per cent advantage. The other candidates didn’t have a prayer.
It is interesting how little attention voters seem to pay to municipal elections given the fact that municipal politicians and their policies have such a direct impact on our everyday lives. They are responsible for the upkeep of our roads (with the exception of the major highways); policing, fire prevention, waste disposal, transit, the upkeep of the sewer system to prevent, for example, the flooding of our streets and basements, the upkeep of our parks, jogging trails, sports facilities, public health services and the enforcement of by-laws (some of which bug the heck out of us at times).
Everyone who is impacted by any of these services – and that could be all of us – should be interested in municipal elections or, more precisely, in who is elected to the offices that control how these services are managed.
There was a lot of concern in some quarters recently when Tory pushed for an additional $50 million for the Toronto Police Service on top of their already more than $1 billion budget. There were those who felt that money could have been used to provide services that would have avoided the need for more policing.
Had the makeup of council been different, with a different mayor, that might have been an option. But it would have meant that more people would have had to exercise their right to vote and elect differently – not just in the last election when some voters might have felt that Tory had a lock on the vote as the incumbent but even in the one before when there were more choices.
This time around, there are 102 candidates vying for the office of mayor. That is the only position up for grabs following Tory’s resignation last February over an affair with a woman in his office. The winning candidate will be responsible for leading Canada’s largest municipality with an annual budget of some $16 billion. He or she will also benefit from the strong mayor legislation enacted by the province last year giving the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa the power to veto certain city by-laws.
Many candidates, many promises
Among the candidates are former police chief Mark Saunders who has the firm support of Conservative Premier Doug Ford (make of that what you wish); former and current city councillors, including councillor Josh Matlow; Ana Bailão, a former city councillor and deputy mayor who so far seems to have a lock on the labour vote (again, make of that what you will); former councillor Rob Davis; former federal Liberal MP, Celina Caesar-Chavannes; former provincial Liberal MPP and minister, Mitzi Hunter (the only candidate so far who has committed to not use the strong mayor powers); former NDP city councillor and federal MP Olivia Chow who placed third in the 2014 mayoral race behind Tory and Doug Ford (now the premier), among others. Chow, by the way, used to be a favourite of labour. Just saying.
And there are just as many promises, platforms and policy statements as there are candidates.
One that immediately stands out is the promise by councillor and former NDP MPP Anthony Perruzza not to raise taxes. He seems to be going after the vote of homeowners, who make up, by all accounts, the majority of people who vote. They are also older, more established and more affluent. Will these people make or support decisions that are in your interest?
No one likes to hear that their property taxes are being increased so that might be attractive to homeowners. But consider that the property values in the city have just about doubled over the past few years with a small three-bedroom bungalow now going for close to $1 million yet those homes are still being taxed at an older tax rate when properties were much less expensive. (I can remember when those properties could be purchased for about $20,000, by the way.)
Then we complain that we don’t have the funds to maintain the city’s infrastructure, provide properly for the homeless and other desperately needed services and have to go cap in hand to the other levels of government for funding only to be rebuffed.
A promise not to raise property taxes is not a viable plan for a growing city.
And what about renters, many of whom live in the high-rise buildings that dominate the city’s skyline? Many of them are long-time residents of the city. They make up a large percentage of the city’s population and enjoy – even depend on – a lot of the services the city provides and are directly impacted by municipal policies. They need to step up.
Policy decisions pushed and supported by the owners of single-family homes downtown might not serve the interests of tenants. They need to have their voices heard by politicians who know and understand their concerns.
Then there is a plan to set aside $200 million a year for the environment. We all should be interested in protecting the environment especially as it will affect our children and grandchildren. But is that the most pressing issue currently facing the city which some say is in a state of decline? For many, it might be, but do you want that to be the determining factor in who becomes the next mayor? If you do, there is a clear choice.
What about bicycle lanes? Some candidates are promising to get rid of all or most of them; others are promising to increase the number. Is that important to you as an issue?
Affordable housing and homelessess
Everyone seems to have something to say about affordable housing and the homeless but where are the concrete plans? It makes for good soundbites, but we have heard it all before. Who do we trust –really trust – to pay serious attention to the problem of homelessness in our city?
This is a rich and good country. Ours is a fairly wealthy and caring city. We should all be embarrassed to see the homeless in our parks and on our streets, many of whom have found themselves in dire circumstances through no fault of their own. That this is also a problem in other cities should not be an excuse. We can and should do better.
I still can’t get over the news clips of the police violently removing the homeless from a Toronto park last year. Everyone involved in that exercise should be ashamed. Is this how we treat our fellow Canadians who might be down on their luck? We can and must do better. But that would take a certain kind of leadership.
It all starts with us going to the ballot box on Monday, June 26 and choosing a candidate who will care about the things that we care about.
When we don’t show up at the voting booth, we are proudly showing that we don’t care about our city and about who is chosen to run our city. By not voting, we might be allowing to win someone whose policy choices will negatively impact us.
And then we all have to live with the consequences.
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Already seeing the infighting with Gil and the purity test on if he supports streetcars or not.
It's not "infighting" and a "purity test" to have meaningful disagreements and questions about his policy on major infrastructure issues. And if Gil wants to be mayor he needs to approach policy seriously and not just with hot take tweets and fired from the hip opinions. Someone can't expect to run for mayor and then not have anyone have questions about their policies and positions.
I find this narrative frustrating and counterproductive that if the left doesn't coalesce around Gil within the first few days from Tory's complete surprise Friday night announcement, or has any questions or criticisms of his sometimes-not-that-thought-through positions that it's just classic left purity test, infighting, etc — we haven't even had time for serious candidates to figure out the situation and announce yet! If Gil wants to be a serious candidate he needs to build serious policy and respond to questions and build support.
The only reason Gil announced right away is because he is just his own guy and doesn't take into account these broader strategic political considerations vis a vis other candidates and the political machine and fundraising, etc. required to win the office of mayor (running around wards and taking photos and posting tweets wont do it alone).
Other candidates are clearly talking behind the scenes with each other and supporters, fundraisers, campaign machines, in order to figure out who is best situated to run a viable campaign. Gil just went 'hey it's time for Gil For Mayor again' and announced he's running, but that does not mean he should be the standard bearer or is the best candidate to win in this election.
He's just the first name in and if anyone isn't being a team player here and risks vote-splitting it's Gil. If Gil was concerned about the future of the city and vote splitting maybe he should have worked with other progressive people behind the scenes to decide who is best positioned to run and win here, but he just jumped in quickly before other serious candidates could figure out what to do. That's fine and fair enough, he can do what he thinks is best for Gil and for the city, and I may still vote for him, support him, and even campaign for him — he may still be the best candidate and I voted for him last time! But nobody owes Gil support just because he's Gil and got his name out first on the weekend before serious candidates could figure things out and it's not purity test and infighting to have some questions about Gil's policies and want to see what the other options are before supporting Gil. Let's see how this plays out.
It absolutely is when you have already said "I'm not uniting around an anti-streetcar candidate". That's a classic (a rigid standard on a specific issue by which a politician or other figure compared) purity test.
If "we haven't even had time for serious candidates to figure out the situation", then why are you making declarations about whether or not Gil is a candidate you'd support?
Fair point. I worded that strongly declaring it like that and maybe I am exhibiting those tendencies. But if Gil really thinks streetcars belong in a museum and that would impact his policy in a way that would move us away from streetcars and doesn't show that he can engage with the issue and points for and against them in different contexts meaningfully, yeah that's an issue for me and would probably be a dealbreaker unless he clarifies that he would keep and invest in Toronto's streetcar system and barring a lack of other good candidates.
I just think that would be really irresponsible policy to get rid of our streetcars and a historic mistake. But also I want a mayor who an consider all aspects of an issue seriously and doesn't just present simple one size fits all solutions and his opinions as the easy answer. So that's part of the issue as well. I want to see a mayor who can engage meaningfully on subjects and handle good points against his opinions and listen and integrate them into his thinking, not ignore good points against his ideas.
The left does have a problem with purity testing, and I will endeavour to be aware of it in myself! But in general and in this case I don't think it's always purity testing for people to have some issues that are big issues for them and for them to challenge potential candidates on them in order to get better more considered policy. For me infrastructure issues and thinking seriously about them are very important. We can't be messing around with half-baked plans like under Ford (subways subways subways) and Tory (SmartTrack back of the napkin plan for Tory's election taking over transit planning in this city). If Ford posted Penalosa's streetcar tweet people would be melting down. I'm still open to supporting Gil and I welcome a lot of his message and ideas, but we have to be able to challenge people on the progressive side of things on their positions, and that's not purity testing to me on subjects this big. That's making sure we have an appropriately serious candidate for mayor with realistic, considered, good policy.
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John Howard Tory (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian broadcaster, businessman, and former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007 while he was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2004 to 2009.
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After a career as a lawyer, political strategist and businessman, Tory ran as a mayoral candidate in the 2003 Toronto municipal election and lost to David Miller. Tory was subsequently elected as Ontario PC leader from 2004 to 2009, and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey and serving as the leader of the Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007. After his resignation as PC leader in 2009, Tory became a radio talk show host on CFRB. Despite widespread speculation, Tory did not run for mayor again in 2010. He was also the volunteer chair of the non-profit group CivicAction from 2010 to 2014.
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Former Toronto mayor John Tory is rejoining the board of Rogers Communications Inc. RCI-B-T, the telecom and media empire where he once served as an executive.
Mr. Tory is one of three people who will stand for election to the company’s board at its annual shareholder meeting on April 24. Several directors have recently departed the board, including two of chairman Edward Rogers’s sisters, who stepped down as part of a settlement in a dramatic and highly public family feud.
Mr. Tory previously joined the Rogers board in 2010, after a five-year run as the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. He stepped down four years later to focus on his new job as mayor, but his continued association with the company during his time in office invited public scrutiny. He remained a member of the advisory committee to the Rogers Control Trust, the vehicle through which the Rogers family exerts its control over the telecom.
In the fall of 2021, Mr. Tory attempted to mediate the Rogers family feud, a dispute between warring factions over the composition of the board and who should lead the company. During this time, he chaired a critical meeting of the control trust’s advisory committee.
Asked at the time whether it was appropriate for the sitting mayor to do this, Mr. Tory said he was fulfilling a promise to the company’s founder, the late Ted Rogers.
The two other new directors the telecom is nominating to its board are Wayne Sparrow, elected chief of the Musqueam Indian Band, and Diane A. Kazarian, who was the first female managing partner of the Greater Toronto Area at accounting firm PwC, according to Rogers’s proxy circular to shareholders on Friday.
Edward Rogers’s position as head of the control trust gives him voting control over these appointments. He is also chair of the board’s nominating committee, which puts forward board candidates.
Mr. Tory’s ties to the Toronto-based telecom prompted him to recuse himself from city council votes on multiple occasions, to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
He won a third term as mayor in the 2022 municipal election, but announced his resignation months later, after admitting that he’d had an affair with a woman who had been a member of his staff.
Mr. Tory’s disclosed holdings in Rogers are worth just under $15-million at the company’s current share price, according to the proxy circular.
That’s a considerably larger stake than the $5.5-million worth of stock he held in 2014, before he stepped down from the board. As a result of doing so, he no longer had to disclose his holdings.
The growth in Mr. Tory’s stake in Rogers is attributable to both growth in the telecom’s share price and an increase in his reported holdings of both voting Class A and non-voting Class B shares.
In an e-mail, Mr. Tory said the increase in his reported Class A holdings, from 7,812 shares in 2014 to 83,200 today, is due to shares owned “by a family investment entity which I do not control.”
Some of his reported 176,770 Class B shares are also held by that entity, he said, adding that he had acquired some additional Class B shares in 2024 after resigning from the mayoralty. In 2014, Rogers reported his Class B ownership at 111,000 shares.
Rogers’s directors each received an annual retainer of $110,000 in 2023, plus $120,000 in Rogers stock. They received an additional $5,500 for each board committee they served on, and more for each committee they chaired.
The connections between Mr. Tory’s family and the Rogers family date to the late 1950s, when Ted Rogers articled at Torys LLP, the law firm founded by Mr. Tory’s grandfather and later run by his father, John A. Tory, who served on the Rogers board for decades.
Over the years, the younger Mr. Tory developed a friendship with Ted Rogers and his wife, Loretta, and worked as an executive at the telecom, serving as the head of Rogers Media and then of Rogers Cable. He left in 2003 to pursue a career in politics.
Mr. Tory kept his various roles at several Rogers family trusts after becoming mayor in 2014, citing a moral obligation to the company’s late founder, who died of congestive heart failure in 2008.
Mr. Tory said that aside from donating a very small number of his personal Rogers holdings to charity one year, he did not deal with any of his shares in the telecom while he was mayor.
“I dealt with the matter of conflict by following the applicable rules, which require self declaration of any possible conflicts at council or committee meetings,” he said.
In late 2022, Toronto Integrity Commissioner Jonathan Batty cleared Mr. Tory of voting improperly on road restrictions that could have affected fans attending Toronto Blue Jays games. (Rogers owns both the team and the stadium in which it plays.)
The following year, in a 122-page report, Mr. Batty concluded that Mr. Tory had broken ethics rules, both by having an affair with a subordinate and by voting on a proposal for the city to pursue a World Cup deal with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, since by this time MLSE employed the woman he’d had an affair with. (Rogers and BCE Inc. together own 75 per cent of MLSE, the parent company of Toronto’s professional hockey, basketball, soccer and Canadian Football League teams.)
The proxy circular also reveals that several members have been added to the advisory committee to the Rogers Control Trust in order to replace the three members – family matriarch Loretta Rogers and two of her husband’s top lieutenants, Phil Lind and Alan Horn – who have passed away in recent years. Ted Rogers’s childhood best friend Toby Hull is also no longer on the advisory committee.
The Rogers Control Trust steers the telecom and media giant through its ownership of 97.5 per cent of the company’s voting Class A shares.
The new members are Bob Reeves, president and chief executive officer of the family holding company Rogers Telecommunications Limited; company director Jan Innes; David Miller, the telecom’s former chief legal officer; and Rogers executive Tom Turner.
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A byelection to replace John Tory as mayor, head of council and chief executive officer of Toronto is expected to be held in the coming weeks, after his abrupt resignation due to what he calls an “inappropriate relationship” with a former employee.
Tory offered few details about the affair during a hastily called news conference Friday evening, only saying it had developed during the COVID-19 and ended by mutual consent earlier this year.
The unnamed employee is now working at another job.
Tory told reporters he notified the Office of the Integrity Commissioner of the relationship and asked him to review it, saying he believes it is important to avoid tarnishing the Officer of the Mayor or putting City Hall through a prolonged period of controversy over what he describes as an error in judgment on his part.
He did not immediately name his replacement, saying he will be working with senior city staff and Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie to ensure an orderly transition.
Tory served two scandal-free terms as mayor of Toronto and had just been re-elected for a third.
Tory thanked the people of Toronto for trusting him as mayor, a position he called “the job of a lifetime.''
“I believe I did some good for the city I truly love, particularly during the pandemic,'' he said.
He said the relationship with the employee developed during when he was spending long periods of time away from his wife Barbara, to whom he has been married for over 40 years.
“I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part,'' Tory said at city hall, where he apologized “unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all those hurt by my actions including my staff, my colleagues and the public service.''
“As a result, I have decided I will step down as mayor so I can take the time to reflect on my mistakes and to do the work of rebuilding the trust of my family.''
He asked for privacy for all affected by his actions, including his wife, family and himself.
Tory, 68, was first elected mayor in 2014, partially on a promise to restore respectability to the office following the scandal-plagued tenure of his predecessor Rob Ford.
Tory was re-elected to a third term in October, after a campaign that saw him tout his years of experience in the top office of Canada's most populous city.
He secured about 62 per cent of the vote compared to 18 per cent for progressive urbanist Gil Penalosa, who came second. Tory beat out 30 mostly unknown candidates after many criticized his record on transit and housing _ two issues he had highlighted as priorities.
In a tweet late Friday night, Penalosa said “now Torontonians have a chance to elect better.''
Tory's most recent election win came as he faced criticism about the state of Toronto under his leadership. His opponents noted the high cost of housing, aging infrastructure, overflowing garbage bins and shuttered parks.
His leadership saw increased scrutiny in recent weeks over his announcement of a proposed $48.3-million increase to the city's police budget, which would bring police funding to just over $1.1 billion for 2023 _ a figure Tory's critics said was grossly inflated compared to other line items and underfunded social services.
Tory also saw criticism for his handling of the city's housing crisis, as thousands of people are experiencing homelessness and Toronto's shelter capacity is stretched to its limits.
Just this week, Toronto city council scrapped a recommendation to keep its warming centres open around the clock until mid-April after a bout of extreme cold, as well as to declare a public health crisis over lack of shelter space. With support from Tory, council voted instead to call for more federal support and have staff study the idea further.
Kristyn Wong-Tam, a former Toronto city councillor who often disagreed with Tory's positions and current member of the Ontario legislature, issued a tweet calling Tory's affair with a staffer “not a simple, one-time lapse of judgment,” but “an abuse of power.”
Toronto city council is set to debate Tory's proposed budget at a Wednesday meeting. It will be the first under new so-called strong mayor powers granted to Toronto by the province, which Tory had said he would use in a limited and responsible way.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 11, 2023.
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Penalosa said he will run largely on the same platform he pitched last time, which focuses on improving affordability including social services and housing.
Despite the new “strong mayor” powers given to Toronto through provincial legislation, which allows bylaws to be enacted with the support of a minority of councillors, Penalosa said he will not approve measures without at least half of council’s support.
Michael Ford
Peter Graefe, an associate professor of political science at McMaster University, said he wouldn’t be surprised if Ontario Premier Doug Ford was speaking to his nephew, Michael, about making the jump to the mayor’s seat.
The younger Ford was elected as a member of provincial parliament last June and shortly after was appointed minister of citizenship and multiculturalism by his premier uncle, prompting allegations of nepotism.
The elder Ford defended his decision at the time by saying his nephew had years of experience serving as a school trustee and on Toronto city council.
Graefe said the premier has previously shown a clear interest in how Toronto is governed and the idea of having his nephew in the role following the recent enactment of “strong mayor” powers could be appealing.
Josh Matlow
A progressive councillor for the ward of Toronto-St. Paul’s since 2010, Matlow has been one of John Tory’s most vocal opponents at City Hall.
Matlow has not yet made any formal decision or indication that he will run, instead stating on Twitter he remains focused on “delivering an improved budget” at a special city council meeting planned for Wednesday.
“We cannot let what happened distract our focus,” he said.
“I will continue working with my colleagues to ensure that every Torontonian has a warm place to go, the TTC is truly safe and reliable, we address the roots of health and safety of our communities, repair our crumbling infrastructure and roads, and finally make the necessary investments in well-maintained parks and services residents rely on.”
Brad Bradford
He may be just months into his second tenure on council, but the man representing the ward of Beaches-East York has already made a name for himself as a reliable ally of the outgoing mayor.
Tory endorsed Bradford, who has a background in urban planning, early in his 2018 election bid. He later assigned Bradford some plum roles, including naming him to executive council and appointing him commissioner of the city’s transit system.
The state of local transit is a hot-button issue in Toronto at all times, but a recent rash of violent incidents has trained a particularly bright spotlight on the issue as Torontonians prepare to return to the polls.
Media reports say Bradford’s name is being floated in Progressive Conservative circles, whose members are keen to see a candidate in Tory’s ideological mould take the helm at City Hall.
Chloe Brown
Brown finished a distant third in last year’s mayoral race behind Tory and Penalosa.
She has not yet indicated firm intentions to run again but has suggested to local media that she’s considering the idea.
Her 2022 platform included using technology-driven solutions to improve government services, a plan to change the current property tax system to one based on land values, and improving conditions for the city’s renters.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2023.
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We found just one board in Toronto that did not have a Progressive Conservative donor.
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Editor's note: When sharing the graphics in this story on social media or elsewhere, please give credit to Terra Loire Gillespie at The Maple and include a link to this article.
The Maple recently presented research showing that board members at Toronto hospitals are largely wealthy and Conservative. Out of 668 board positions, more than 25 per cent of the individuals involved are donors to Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservative Party, compared to 7.7 per cent who are Liberal donors and just 2.6 per cent who are NDP donors.
Similarly, 16 per cent are donors to former Toronto mayor John Tory (from 2018 to 2022) compared to less than one per cent who were donors to progressive challengers during that same period.
Why are the political affiliations of these board members important, and how might they impact the healthcare system? We explore this in more detail in today’s article.
How Hospital Boards Work
Hospital and hospital foundation boards operate under Ontario’s Public Hospitals Act. While the Ministry of Health has oversight of hospitals, the government is not responsible for appointing board members.
The composition of boards falls to each institution’s governance bylaws under Ontario's Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. Despite the boards themselves being officially non-partisan, board members skew Conservative, as our research shows.
In fact, we found just one board in Toronto that did not have a Progressive Conservative donor.
A Time For Scrutiny
Canada’s health system has attracted international scrutiny in recent years.
In particular, prominent global health experts called for a public inquiry into Canada’s inequitable response to the COVID-19 crisis. A scathing editorial from The British Medical Journal recently said that “The picture that emerges is an ill prepared country with outdated data systems, poor coordination and cohesion and blindness about its citizens’ diverse needs.”
The editorial outlined how poor government responses and jurisdictional squabbling led to unnecessary deaths and other dire outcomes.
In Ontario, rates of COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths were three times higher in the province’s lowest-income neighbourhoods. In Toronto, 69 per cent of individuals who reported having COVID said they belonged to a racialized group. The majority were Black or South Asian.
The hospital board members who hold power over how healthcare is delivered are overwhelmingly made up of people who continue to finance the parties and individuals who run the same governments that oversaw these negative outcomes.
While hospital board members have largely stayed quiet instead of demanding accountability from the Ford government, it has fallen to health worker unions, community advocates and professionals to speak out against the damage caused by cuts and privatization.
Deep Connections
Donations are only one type of connection between political parties and hospital board members.
While there are some faces from the Liberal Party on these boards — like former premier David Peterson and former deputy premier Deb Matthews — there is a larger presence of former Conservative politicians.
Christine Elliott was recently appointed to the board of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), after serving as Ford’s deputy premier and health minister. Former Conservative Party of Canada president John Walsh sits on the board at North York General Hospital. Stephen Harper’s former minister of transportation, Lisa Raitt, sits on Baycrest Foundation’s board. Retired Conservative senator Nicole Eaton is a director on the board for St. Michael’s Foundation.
As a former health minister, Elliott is directly responsible for many of the recent provincial policies that have thrown the health care system into crisis, and will now serve on a board that is grappling with challenges that she herself created.
Raitt, meanwhile, was embroiled in several scandals while in office. This included a leaked tape in which she described the isotopes crisis at the time as “sexy” and wanted credit for solving it. She was criticized for not responding effectively to the crisis, which in turn impacted cancer treatment across the country.
Business Interests
Another key tenet of a board member’s role is a fiduciary responsibility to the hospital or hospital foundation they serve. However, many board members have business or financial interests that benefit from privatized health care solutions and Ford’s policies specifically.
Conservative donor Sabrina Fiorellino sits on the board of Humber River Health and is CEO of Fero International, a life sciences company that provides health care infrastructure solutions. According to the public database Open Corporates, Fero evolved from a private numbered company that was in the process of dissolving in 2019.
By October 2020, several months into the COVID-19 crisis, the company had expanded and renamed itself to Fero International Inc. This summer, Fero was one of six companies granted $500,000 from the Ontario government’s Life Sciences Innovation Fund.
Fiorellino featured prominently alongside her local MPP Neil Lumsden and Minister of Economic Development Vic Fedeli in a press tour promoting the fund. During that tour, Fedeli emphasized the impact of the government co-investing in life sciences alongside private investors.
Galen Weston, president of Loblaws and a Sunnybrook Hospital board member, has seen his company's subsidiary Shoppers Drug Mart benefit from Ford’s attention. During the early days of COVID-19, Ford tapped Weston to provide rapid tests at Shoppers locations. This year, Ford expanded the scope of a pharmacist’s ability to prescribe certain medications, coming after Shoppers spent years lobbying for the policy.
Loblaws is also an investor in the health care app Maple, which advertises access to “online doctor consultation[s] in minutes” for a monthly fee.
Maple has become a rapidly growing business while facing scrutiny from Health Canada. Addressing growing concerns over Maple’s pricing services, Health Canada spokesperson Anne Génier reiterated in January the province’s responsibilities under the Canada Health Act to cover all medically necessary services.
"Health Canada is always concerned when a patient is charged to access a service that would be insured if provided in person by a physician," said Génier.
Additionally, another investor in Maple is the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), which has 21 executives sitting on various Toronto hospital boards.
In fact, one-quarter of all hospital and foundation board members hail from the financial sector, and half of these are either donors to Ford’s Conservatives or former mayor John Tory.
For example, Gerald Schwartz sits on the Board at Mount Sinai, is a Conservative donor and is the founder of Onex Corporation. In July 2021, Onex announced that it had acquired Newport Healthcare, a private American firm.
Ronald Sedran is a managing director at Canaccord Genuity, a board member at Humber River Health Services Foundation and a Conservative donor. Canaccord is a capital investment firm whose clients and investment areas include biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics and “Digital & Tech Enabled Health.”
While board members are not paid for their positions, some Conservative donors have benefited from the health care crisis while simultaneously driving the priorities of hospitals and foundations. While some members reap professional, business and financial rewards from the situation, it is patients who end up paying the price.
Now, let's turn to the members' corner...
Members' Corner
Since we recently had a Members' Corner section dedicated to health care privatization in Ontario, I'm going to focus parts of today's edition on other examples of data journalism from The Maple and elsewhere.
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TORONTO — John Tory, a 68-year-old born-and-bred Torontonian and member of the city’s business and political elite, resigned as its mayor on Friday after admitting to an inappropriate relationship with a staffer.
Tory was born into a successful family with a major law firm, Torys, founded by his grandfather.
His father, John A. Tory, worked at the firm, but later moved on to work with the Thomson family to run their financial holding company. His father also served on the board of directors of Rogers Communications.
The younger Tory completed high school and post-secondary school in Toronto in the 1970s, eventually graduating with a law degree.
Tory worked for Rogers-owned radio stations before getting into politics. He worked in then-premier Bill Davis’s Progressive Conservative government in the early 1980s.
He’d later work as a lawyer while also serving on campaigns for then-prime minister Brian Mulroney, as well as his successor Kim Campbell in 1993.
In 1995, Tory moved over to run Rogers Media as its CEO and president. He took the helm of the company’s cable division around the turn of the millennium
During that stretch he also served as the Canadian Football League’s commissioner.
But Tory returned to politics and won the race to lead the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.
Tory served as its leader for five years starting in 2004. He was elected in a byelection in 2005 in a central Ontario riding, but vowed to run in Toronto in the 2007 general election.
He faced many warnings he would lose the head-to-head battle with the popular Liberal holding the Don Valley West seat he was eyeing then-education minister Kathleen Wynne.
He lost the race for that seat, and his party fared little better provincially. Tory’s controversial campaign promise to extend public funding to religious schools led the Progressive Conservatives to a disappointing showing.
Despite calls to resign and a dismal 66.9 per cent approval rating in a leadership vote the year before, Tory vowed to stay and learn from his mistakes.
Eventually in 2009, caucus member Laurie Scott gave up her Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock seat so Tory could run in a byelection there, but he lost that race as well and resigned as party leader.
He settled in as a radio host weekdays for several hours on Live Drive during Toronto’s notoriously long rush-hour.
But he waded back into politics to run as mayor.
When Tory launched his mayoral bid in 2014, he faced off against scandal-plagued incumbent Mayor Rob Ford. Tory ran on a platform of change, a transit vision for the city and low taxes.
With weeks to go before the election, Rob Ford pulled out of the race due to health concerns.
Doug Ford, the mayor’s older brother and councillor of his old ward, stepped in to run in his stead.
Tory beat Ford by 64,000 votes.
In 2018, he ran against the city’s Chief Planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, and won handily.
He became an ally to Doug Ford, who became premier of Ontario that year.
Tory cruised to a third mayoral term less than four months ago, garnering 62 per cent of the vote in last October’s municipal election.
Recent legislation from Ford’s government granted Toronto strong mayor powers in return for help building houses quickly. Tory supported the controversial measure.
He presided over the COVID-19 pandemic and tough financial straits at the city. Tory faced heavy criticism for his pro-police stance. He angered the homeless population and their supporters.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 20, 2023.
–with files from Allison Jones
Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
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As a lawyer, talk show host, businessman, Member of Provincial Parliament and Leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park, and finally as Mayor, he has long believed that the diversity of Toronto is its strength. As Mayor, John’s focus will be on bringing the city together as One Toronto.
Among Mayor Tory’s top priorities are tackling transit and traffic congestion. He is focused on taking action to reduce commute times so Toronto residents can get to work on time and home to their families sooner. Mayor Tory is also getting to work on Toronto’s transit crisis by getting on with the Scarborough subway and beginning work on the SmartTrack line, a 53 kilometre, 22 station surface subway that would provide all day, two-way service across the city and bring needed relief to the congested Yonge subway.
The early years of Mayor Tory’s career were spent practicing law in Toronto, and he was later elected as a managing partner of one of Canada’s biggest law firms. In the 1980’s he served as Principal Secretary to Premier Bill Davis and as Associate Secretary of the Ontario Cabinet. In September 2004, Mayor Tory was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. In 2005, as PC Party Leader, Mayor Tory would serve as the Leader of the Official Opposition at Queen’s Park.
Mayor Tory has an extensive background in volunteer community service. He served as volunteer Chairman and Commissioner of the Canadian Football League and has chaired fundraising campaigns for St. Michael’s Hospital and the United Way. He has also held leadership positions in a wide range of charitable organizations ranging from Canadian Paraplegic Association, Crimestoppers, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto Association for Community Living, the United Way, and the Women's Legal Education & Action Fund (LEAF).
Mayor Tory’s community work has been widely recognized. Mayor Tory was a founding Board Member and Chair of the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance. He is a recipient of both the Paul Harris and Mel Osborne Awards from the Rotary and Kiwanis organizations respectively and was named a Life Member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. He is also the recipient of an African Canadian Achievement Award and the Harry Jerome Award. Mayor Tory was recently awarded the Order of Ontario for being a “consummate champion for the Greater Toronto Region.”
Born on May 28, 1954, Mayor Tory and his wife Barbara have been married since 1978. They raised their four children, John Jr, Chris, Susan and George in Toronto and are now delighted to have four grandchildren to spoil.
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But it is also likely that ambitious and better-known pols are suddenly looking at their political prospects in a post-Tory Toronto, where a new mayor will be chosen in a by-election.
Almost all of Toronto’s modern mayors previously served on city council. Councillor Josh Matlow, a centre-leftist who has clashed with Tory, has long been seen as a potential mayoralty candidate. A former school trustee and provincial Liberal candidate, the onetime activist has represented a midtown district since 2010.
Two former downtown councillors — former deputy mayor Ana Bailao and Mike Layton, son of NDP icon Jack Layton — might find themselves in fresh discussions with their political advisors. Neither re-offered in 2022; Layton cited family reasons, while Bailao later accepted a senior position with an affordable housing developer.
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Another former councillor who could make a credible bid: Joe Cressy, who served almost two terms as a downtown councillor before resigning in 2022 to take a role as senior vice-president of George Brown College.
Former mayoralty opponents may try their luck again. Chloe Brown came third in the 2022 election but impressed leftist activists and won six per cent of the vote while reportedly spending less than $2,000 on her campaign. Former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat, who later founded an affordable-housing company, came a distant second to Tory in 2018 and retains a public profile.
Toronto federal and provincial politicians who could be tempted include Kristen Wong-Tam, a popular downtown NDP MPP, and Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who represents Toronto’s east end and has chafed in Ottawa, and who is currently considering a run for Ontario Liberal leader.
Another long-shot possibility: Tory MPP Mike Ford, the 29-year-old provincial minister of citizenship and multiculturalism in his uncle Doug Ford’s Ontario government.
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By Gerald V. Paul
“He was the conscience of the company. I marvel that I was blessed to have continuity and alignment with someone so gifted and yet somebody I could share my lineage with,” David Thompson of the Thompson family and its $20-billion empire said on the passing of John A. Tory, a quiet, humble man.
Enter John H. Tory, son of John A., lawyer, business leader, community activist and broadcaster, who took the opportunity to attend most of the activities in the Caribbean and Black community and who told The Camera, “I am running for mayor of Toronto because I believe our city can be more liveable, affordable and functional. I know we have what it takes to succeed.
“And I believe in building One Toronto.”
Recent polls put Tory just ahead of Doug Ford and substantially leading Olivia Chow.
Respected lawyer and community leader Prof. Rocco Achampong posted on Facebook: “John will work across party lines to build transit for Toronto. Sign up to support John.”
Achampong agrees with Tory, that Toronto is a great place to raise a family, build a career and follow your passions.
In a Time for Action , a report on violence affecting youth, Tory shared his thoughts as a believer in the “broken window” theory. If we just let the so-called “little things” go because we don’t think they really matter or because we don’t have the resources to deal with them, offenders will conclude there are no consequences to their actions and more brazen and serious criminals acts will follow.
That underscores the need for community policing, not only to keep criminals away but to deter criminal activity to begin with.
According to Tory, more often than not, young people who become involved in acts of violence come from communities in which there is inadequate access to the necessary educational resources, community activities and facilities, jobs and economic opportunity.
He said a significant numbers of these young people have an independent spirit consistent with becoming entrepreneurs. They repeatedly cite the fact that access to even a small amount of seed capital is especially difficult for them.
Tory has deep roots in the community including corporate, where he served as managing partner of one of Canada’s biggest law firms. He was also principal secretary to former premier Bill Davis and an associate secretary of the Ontario Cabinet. He joined Rogers as president and CEO of Rogers Media Inc. and has an extensive background in charity and humanitarian work, including autism, kids at risk, and children with physical disabilities.
He is a former board member and is the voluntary chair of the Greater Civic Action Alliance (formerly called Toronto City Summit Alliance), a respected city-building organization.
On transit, Tory’s plan features 53 kilometers of track with 22 stops for $8 billion in seven years.
However, rival Chow’s adviser Warren Kinsella dubbed Tory’s SmartTrack plan ‘Segregationist Track’ on Twitter. “John Tory if you don’t come from his demographic, he doesn’t give a s… if you lose transit service. Tory, out of touch. Discriminate?” Kinsella later deleted the tweet and apologized.
Tory’s track record in elections is spotty. In the 2007 Ontario election, the Conservatives under his leadership were considered to have a solid chance of beating the governing Liberals. Tory pledged to extend $400 million in public funding to all faith-based religious schools, not just Catholic schools.
After a negative reaction, he flip-flopped and vowed to hold a free vote in the Legislature on the issue if he won. It was too late and Tory was seen as being indecisive.
This time, Tory says he is in fighting form and ready to be mayor.
As a former MPP, leader of the Ontario PC Party and leader of the Opposition in Ontario, said as mayor, he can work with City Council, Premier Kathleen Wynne and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
“Toronto is an amazing city and together we can make a difference.” He said he is offering leadership and vision and the ability to create successful partnerships and citywide initiatives that capitalize on their strengths.
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In light of the abundant evidence revealing the tremendous harm that police have inflicted on so many communities, it is nothing short of anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, transphobic, homophobic, and ableist for media outlets and the general public to spread a narrative of public safety for “everyone” that involves policing.
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If you follow the Toronto news cycle, you’ve undoubtedly heard about an increase in violent incidents on the TTC. Both commuters and transit employees have been attacked, assaulted, harassed, and have faced many other threats to their safety.
An intense city-wide climate has emerged in the wake of these often gruesome and random attacks, and severe news reporting has made many Torontonians understandably nervous about taking the subway or streetcar. Admittedly, the idea that one could be randomly assaulted while simply trying to run errands or get home from work is a terrifying prospect.
It is because of the weight of this burden—one that no transit rider or employee should have to bear—that it is so concerning that Mayor John Tory and Police Chief Myron Demkiw announced that as many as 80 more officers would be patrolling the TTC daily. “The TTC must be safe for everyone, without exception, [for] the people who use it and the people who provide the service,” Tory said at a presser.
What are we to make of the presence of dozens of additional police officers in a city where a Black person is 20 times more likely than a white person to be involved in a fatal shooting by the Toronto Police Service, despite making up only 8.8 percent of Toronto’s population?
Do we truly believe that this decision has everyone’s safety in mind when, in 2022, police shootings increased by nearly 25 percent across Canada?
The reality that policing in Toronto, in Canada, and across the world, is violent and harmful has been expressed compellingly by many others and does not need revisiting here. What does warrant closer inspection is the way in which narratives of public safety are often deeply anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, anti-poor, anti-LGBTQ+, and ableist. This has taken on new meaning in the wake of Tory’s proposed $48.3 million increase to the 2023 municipal police budget.
When the media endorses an anti-Black institution such as the Toronto Police Service as a viable solution to violence and as a path to safety for “everyone,” they necessarily perpetuate a vision of “everyone” that excludes Black people. Not only are Black people relegated from the public discourse but, more specifically, our suffering is minimized and therefore justified.
Looking back on the decade-long battle to remove armed police from the Toronto District School Board, defenders of the School Resource Officer (SRO) Program argued that there wasn’t any evidence to indicate that it was harming marginalized students (denial). Later, when community members showed up to deputations, the argument shifted and proponents dismissed the hardships expressed as purely anecdotal (dismissal). Finally, when the TDSB convened a survey of 12,000 respondents, and the results indicated that more than 1,100 students felt harassed or intimidated by SROs, supporters of the program argued that 1,100 was a small number and that, while mistakes had been made, the program was far from irredeemable (minimization).
Throughout the process, the experiences of those directly impacted were relegated to the margins of a conversation that should have had them at its centre. Rather than holding elected officials accountable for stripping a system of its supports, the general public accepted a proposition in which the safety of Black people was the necessary cost of the problems of an urgent and dire situation.
Today, we find ourselves met with this same proposition. A nearly $50 million increase to the Toronto Police Service’s budget is being offered as a solution to the many social problems that plague this city. John Di Nino, the national president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, has openly stated that more police will not solve the TTC’s problems.
“We need investments in public transit—we don’t need to be chipping away at it,” said Di Nino. “Just putting police officers on the front lines is not enough.”
Similarly, last week, a network of community organizations known as Another Toronto Is Possible held a rally outside City Hall where the families of Regis Korchinski-Paquet and Taresh Bobby Ramroop (two Black Torontonians who died during confrontations with police) shared their accounts of how law enforcement institutions perpetrate violence. For them and their loved ones, the police did not create anything resembling a feeling of safety or security.
“My son Bobby died during a mental health crisis, when he needed his family,” said Debbie Indal, the mother of Taresh Bobby Ramroop.
“The police came to the door. I told them I was alright. They insisted they needed to enter my home and they would get the super to open the door if I didn’t. The police were at my door for three hours or so. I got support from my community, mental health support: she is a neighbour. I didn’t need police; I needed a mental health worker. Why didn’t they let us help my son when he was in crisis: his family, the community, us? We raised Bobby his entire life and until that fateful day when the police came… The Toronto police are responsible for my son’s death.”
In light of the abundant evidence revealing the tremendous harm that police have inflicted on so many communities, it is reprehensible for media outlets and the general public to spread a narrative of public safety for “everyone” that involves policing.
As John Tory expands policing to all facets of daily life, we are reminded that what we are witnessing is not “public safety” but rather a dismantling of public services facilitated by mass securitization and the criminalization of poverty.
In the face of a cash-strapped transit system, the public has repeatedly been told that “fare inspectors” are necessary. In under-resourced, under-funded high schools with overflowing classrooms, Tory told parents and students that “resource officers” will improve a dire situation. On university campuses, where student supports and services are routinely under attack, students are told that “peace officers” can help.
Ultimately, regardless of what euphemisms are used, our pleas for support—for more funding, more mental health supports, and better housing—have been met with uniformed, armed officers with long histories of harming marginalized communities.
What should real safety look like? Recently, Toronto City Council received a six-month evaluation report on the implementation and operations of the Toronto Community Crisis Service (TCCS) pilots. The third-party report confirmed that the pilots have successfully diverted 78 percent of mental health crisis calls received by 911 with no police involvement.
Sharing the news release on Twitter, journalist Denise Balkissoon wrote, “Toronto just got the six-month report from the non-police Community Crisis Support Team pilot and 78% of calls were diverted without involving police. Imagine if we gave that a $50 million raise. Instead, it’s an increase of maybe $3 million.”
Imagine if investments were made in the services and interventions community members have sought for decades. Imagine if their stories and experiences were at the centre of conversations about public safety, not relegated to sidenotes.
Imagine.
Perhaps then, and only then, could we begin to truly talk about safety for everyone in Toronto.
Phillip Dwight Morgan is a Toronto-based writer and activist. His essays, op-eds, and interviews have been featured on cbc.ca, macleans.ca, and rabble.ca, and in Briarpatch and Spacing magazines.
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Toronto Mayor John Tory easily won re-election on Monday, trouncing the city's former planner after a campaign marked by unprecedented interference from the provincial government, but at least a dozen other communities were forced to extend voting by as much as a day due to technical or other difficulties.
Tory took about 63 per cent of the vote while his main rival, Jennifer Keesmaat, took about 23 per cent — giving the incumbent mayor a far more significant victory than when he was first elected four years ago.
"That's quite an evening isn't it," Tory, 64, joked in his victory speech, calling his mandate historic. "I want to acknowledge Jennifer Keesmaat, who brought ideas forward which I'm sure we'll discuss in the coming days."
Four years ago, Tory took only 40 per cent of the popular vote when he edged out Ford, who finished in second place with 33 per cent. Ford went on to become Progressive Conservative leader earlier this year and became premier this summer.
Myer Siemiatycki, a professor of politics at Ryerson University, called Tory's win "decisive," saying he had only one real challenger this time as opposed to two in 2014. The right-of-centre Tory, however, will have to do more to win council to his side now, Siemiatycki said.
"This council will have a lot more opposition voices as it were to the mayor than the last council did," Siemiatycki said. "It will be an interesting four years ahead — it will test Mayor Tory's conciliatory abilities and talents, which are there but didn't reach across the aisle in his first term in office."
In Brampton just northwest of Toronto, ousted Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown made good on his political comeback. Brown edged out incumbent Linda Jeffrey for mayor with close to 90 per cent of votes counted. He had been forced to step down from his post as leader of the provincial party in January amid sexual misconduct allegations he denies.
Elsewhere in Ontario, technical issues with online voting systems prompted a number of municipalities to extend their voting hours, some by as much as a day.
Five eastern-Ontario municipalities went so far as to declare an emergency over the state of the election, adding that voting would be open for an additional 24 hours in the Township of Laurentian Valley, City of Pembroke, Town of Petawawa, Town of Renfrew, and Township of Whitewater Region.
"We are joining numerous other municipalities in the province, to ensure that our electors get the opportunity to vote," said a joint statement from the municipalities.
Other municipalities offering a 24-hour voting extension included those in Grey and Bruce counties using online voting, all communities in the Muskoka region, Bradford West Gwillimbury, and Greater Sudbury.
Other locales, such as Cambridge, Kingston, Prince Edward County and Pickering, offered more modest extension until later Monday night.
Results were also slow in coming from London, Ont., which became the first Canadian municipality to use ranked ballots in a local election — an option no other municipality opted to try. The system allows voters to choose three candidates in order of preference.
Two other cities, Cambridge and Kingston, were holding votes on whether to adopt the ranked ballot system for the municipal election in 2022.
According to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, there were 6,645 candidates running in local council races across the province with 9.2 million people eligible to vote.
In spite of various municipalities' different circumstances, many campaigns were connected by common threads. Hot button issues such as housing and accessible public transit were campaign issues in Toronto and smaller municipalities alike.
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John Tory is resigning as mayor of Toronto after a Toronto Star report revealed that the third-term politician had a months-long relationship with a former member of his staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multiple news outlets claim that the 68-year-old submitted his resignation letter to the city clerk on Feb. 15. Tory is set to step down at 5 p.m. on Feb. 17.
WATCH: Employment lawyer Jon Pinkus spoke to CTV News about Tory’s resignation and the possible repercussions of workplace relationships.
The formal resignation comes a few days after Tory held a news conference to address the situation.
On Feb. 10, the outgoing mayor told reporters:
“I did not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man.”
“I recognize that permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgement on my part.”
“While I deeply regret having to step away from a job that I love, in a city that I love even more… it is best to commit myself to the work that is required to repair these most important relationships.”
Tory has asked the City of Toronto’s integrity commissioner to look into the relationship.
He added that he will work with various members of the City’s administration, including the city manager, city clerk and deputy mayor, to ensure an organized transition.
SEE ALSO
• Toronto Star interview: Experts weigh in on office relationships
• 640 Toronto: Lior Samfiru talks Tory’s resignation and dating at work
Is it illegal to have a romantic relationship with my boss?
News that Tory engaged in an allegedly consensual relationship with a staffer has raised questions about whether it’s legal for a boss to have a romantic relationship with their employees.
There are no laws in Ontario (or Canada) that prevent consensual workplace romance between a boss and an employee.
It’s legal for consenting co-workers to date or engage in intimate relations with one another.
While political settings are a workplace like any other, there could be even more emphasis placed on the importance of maintaining a balance of power among all staff.
While there are no laws in the country prohibiting relationships between employees, it’s generally not a good idea for a superior to date a subordinate that they have power over.
The fact that there is a power imbalance between a boss and an employee means that it’s unlikely that a relationship can be completely voluntary.
WATCH: Employment Lawyer Alex Lucifero spoke to CTV News about Ottawa city council’s policy on workplace relationships.
Can companies ban workplace relationships?
The short answer is yes. Employers can choose to ban staff from forming romantic relationships with co-workers in an effort to protect themselves from legal liabilities.
However, this approach is considered outdated and potentially harmful to the company for two reasons:
The business may lose talented employees who are forced to choose between their job and their workplace relationship
Employees may not report non-consensual relationships out of fear that they could lose their job
Instead of banning office dating, a better solution for employers is to implement workplace dating policies that address intimate relationships between superiors and subordinates — or those that could cause conflicts of interest.
LEARN MORE
• Try Guys remove Ned Fulmer over workplace relationship
• McDonald’s CEO and Navigating Workplace Relationships
• Employment lawyer talks employee rights in GMA hosts scandal
Is there a policy about relationships between the mayor and staff?
Toronto city council’s Code of Conduct doesn’t speak to romantic relationships between members of council — including the mayor — and their staff.
The Code claims that “members should perform their duties and arrange their private affairs in a manner that promotes public confidence and bears close public scrutiny.”
In general, a company’s dating policy can:
Include rules about workplace relationships (i.e. what constitutes “inappropriate” behaviour, such as no public displays of affections or favouritism)
Require employees to report workplace relationships to HR with written confirmation that it’s consensual
Explain how the policy will be enforced if it’s breached, including disciplinary action and dismissal (which should only be reserved for very serious circumstances)
Dating policies don’t have to apply to employees only. They can also cover contractors, vendors, and suppliers to prevent potential conflicts of interest.
While companies in Canada aren’t required to have a policy on office relationships, they are legally obligated to make sure that the workplace is free of discrimination and harassment.
Human rights legislation at the federal and provincial level does cover a variety of situations, including unwanted sexual advances by someone in a position of power towards a subordinate.
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Feb 11, 2023 | 4:11 PM
TORONTO — Mayor John Tory shocked Torontonians and the political sphere late Friday when he admitted to having an “inappropriate relationship” with a former member of his staff and abruptly announced plans to resign from the city’s top job.
Tory’s sudden resignation has left many questions about what lies ahead for Toronto and the city’s governance in the coming days, weeks and months. Here’s what to expect:
Who is mayor of Toronto?
Still John Tory — for now. City spokesman Mike Hajmasy says Tory has not submitted a formal letter of resignation to the City Clerk as of Saturday and therefore remains mayor.
Once a resignation has been received, Hajmasy says the city will be able to advise on timelines and next steps. It is unclear when Tory plans to submit a resignation letter.
What happens when Tory formally resigns?
Once Toronto’s city clerk receives Tory’s resignation letter, city council will need to declare the mayor’s office vacant. That could happen as early as Wednesday, when councillors are set to debate the city’s proposed 2023 budget — which Tory had sole responsibility to prepare under the province’s “strong mayor” powers.
Once the mayor’s office is declared vacant, the clock starts ticking towards a byelection to replace Tory, which must be held within 60 days.
What will a byelection look like?
In previous years, the city was able to appoint a successor to fill the mayor’s seat. But due to the province’s “strong mayor” legislation, Toronto is required to hold a byelection for the mayor’s office.
That means Torontonians will return to the polls just months after October’s municipal election saw Tory cruise to what was supposed to be a third full term.
It will be the responsibility of Toronto’s city clerk to administer the byelection. The city clerk will set a deadline for candidates to file their nomination papers and election day would take place 45 days after that, according to Ontario’s Municipal Elections Act.
Gil Penalosa, who was Tory’s runner-up in October’s municipal election, has already announced his plans to run again on the same platform. Penalosa received just 18 per cent of the vote in that election, compared to Tory’s about 62 per cent.
Who will take over as interim mayor?
Jennifer McKelvie, councillor for Scarborough-Rouge Park and the city’s deputy leader, will likely take on the role of interim mayor once the office is declared vacant.
As deputy mayor, McKelvie already has the power to act as mayor when the mayor is away from the city, absent due to illness or when the mayor’s office is vacant.
McKelvie is a relative newcomer to city hall, having been elected in 2018 after narrowly defeating incumbent Neethan Shan by taking 40.2 per cent of the vote.
She was re-elected in October with 72 per cent of the vote and appointed deputy mayor by Tory in November.
Her voting track record at city hall has typically been in line with Tory’s.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 11, 2023.
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This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Meta and Canadian Press News Fellowship.
Tyler Griffin, The Canadian Press
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Former Toronto mayor John Tory, whose resignation over an affair with a staffer triggered a byelection, stepped back into the public realm on Wednesday to endorse his ex-deputy, Ana Bailão, for the city's top job.
Tory had vowed earlier to stay out of the race but changed that plan with a video and written statement put out by Bailão's campaign that called her a "fighter," a "negotiator" and a "leader."
"Ana earned my respect and my trust because of who she is and what she can do. She stood up to me and she changed my mind and had my back and in doing so she made me and this city better," Tory said.
"She will be there for you, every day, working tirelessly to make this city better."
The endorsement came just day's ahead of Monday's byelection, which has seen a record 102 candidates run for office since Tory made his exit in February.
The former mayor said Bailão has a strong track record of working with all levels of government, the private sector and community groups – skills that are important to lead Canada's most populous city.
"The Mayor of Toronto cannot be polarizing or divisive. They can’t be driven by party politics or represent just one group of people. It’s all hands on deck," he said.
"Mayors of Toronto can’t pick fights they don’t know how to win. You have to be pragmatic. You have to be able to move projects forward, day by day, month by month. "
Bailão, Tory said, was best equipped to do all parts of the mayor's job.
"Ana will lead with courage and determination. She will seize opportunities and bring people together and pick the right fights," he said.
"Ana Bailão is the right choice for mayor. She is the leader who can deliver on the promise of Toronto."
Some surveys conducted ahead of the June 26 vote indicate that Tory, who was elected to his third term in a landslide in October, remains popular with Torontonians. Polls also suggest Bailão is lagging behind apparent front-runner Olivia Chow, a veteran progressive leader and former federal lawmaker with the New Democrat Party.
Bailão, who was born in Portugal and moved to Canada with her family at age 15, served as Tory's deputy from 2017-2022.
She opted not to seek re-election as a city councillor in 2022 and took a job with a large Toronto developer as its head of affordable housing and public affairs. Her campaign has included a Tory-era promise to keep taxes at or below the rate of inflation despite a nearly $1-billion budget shortfall.
The 46-year-old has staked much of her campaign on her housing record – she was Tory's housing point person as the city grapples with issues of housing affordability.
Critics have said, however, that having Bailão as mayor would maintain what some call a broken status quo in the city.
Bailão, meanwhile, has portrayed herself as a pragmatic consensus builder and is also backed by seven city councillors and nine Liberal parliamentarians.
Earlier Wednesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford – who is supporting ex-police chief Mark Saunders for mayor – said he wished Tory was still at the city’s helm.
Ford went on to say that it would be an “unmitigated disaster” if Chow was elected mayor, suggesting she’d hike taxes significantly.
“God forbid Olivia Chow gets elected, your taxes are going up at an unprecedented rate,” Ford said. “I just want what's best for the people of Toronto.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 21, 2023.
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Early Life and Family
John H. Tory was born into a prominent Toronto family with a strong presence in law, business and media. (See also Business Elites.) His grandfather, John S.D. Tory, founded what is now one of the largest law firms in Canada, Torys LLP. Tory’s father, John A. Tory, was also a lawyer. He left the family firm to act as chief financial advisor to Ken Thomson during the expansion of the Thompson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters). He later sat on the board of the fledgling Rogers Communications Inc. at the invitation of family friend Ted Rogers.
John H. Tory attended secondary school at University of Toronto Schools. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto in 1975. He first dabbled in broadcasting while a university student. From 1972 to 1979, he worked as a radio reporter for CFTR and CHFI, AM radio stations that belonged to the Rogers Radio News Network. Tory graduated from York University‘s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1978. He has been married to Barbara Hackett since 1978. They have four children together.
Early Career in Law and Politics
After finishing law school, Tory joined the family firm, then known as Tory, Tory, DesLauriers and Binnington, in 1980. Later renamed Torys LLP, it is one of Bay Street’s most powerful corporate law firms. Tory left the firm in 1981 to make his first official foray into politics. He served as principal secretary to Ontario premier Bill Davis and as associate secretary of the Ontario cabinet until 1985, when Davis retired. Tory then served as an advisor to the Canadian Special Envoy on Acid Rain, which was appointed by the Brian Mulroney government. (See also Acid Rain.)
Tory returned to the family law firm in 1986, rising to the role of managing partner. During the 1988 federal election, Tory worked as operations director for Prime Minister Mulroney’s successful re-election campaign. After Mulroney stepped down in 1993, Tory led the election campaign for Mulroney’s successor, Kim Campbell. During that campaign, Tory approved an infamous attack ad. It emphasized Liberal leader Jean Chretien’s facial paralysis, caused by Bell’s palsy, and asked, “Is this a prime minister?” The Progressive Conservatives were trounced by the Liberals in the election. The PCs fell from 151 House of Commons seats to two.
Business Endeavours
In 1995, Tory became CEO of Rogers Media Inc. following its acquisition of Maclean Hunter, a major media conglomerate. In 1999, he left Rogers Media to become president and CEO of its subsidiary Rogers Cable Inc., at the time Canada’s largest television and Internet provider.
Starting in 1992, Tory served as volunteer chairman of the Canadian Football League. He was then the league's commissioner from 1997 to 2000. He acted as chair of fundraising campaigns for the United Way, St. Michael’s Hospital and the TIFF Bell Lightbox. He was also a founding board member of Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance (2010–14), a city-building initiative.
Return to Politics
Tory returned to politics in 2003. He ran for mayor of Toronto but lost to David Miller, garnering 38 per cent of the vote to Miller’s 43.3 per cent. Tory then turned his attention to provincial politics. He was elected leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in 2004. He won a seat in a 2005 by-election, becoming MPP for the riding of Dufferin Peel Wellington Grey.
In the 2007 election, Tory pledged that a PC government would fund schools for all faiths, not just Catholic schools. The $400 million proposal did not resonate with voters and was blamed for the party’s loss to the Ontario Liberals. Tory, who was then running for a seat in the Don Valley West riding in Toronto, lost that race to Liberal Kathleen Wynne. In 2009, Tory tried to regain a seat in the legislature by contesting a by-election in Haliburton — Kawartha Lakes but was again defeated. He stepped down as party leader the next day.
Tory publicly considered running for mayor of Toronto in 2010 but ultimately chose “to pursue a different course with my life and career.” He said at the time, “you don't need to be a politician to… find ways to contribute.” When asked what voters should look for in the next mayor, Tory told the Toronto Star in January 2010, “I hope as the campaign unfolds that we see the ideas but also the character, the competence, the collegiality that is going to be needed to lead the city effectively, because right now I think city government is dysfunctional.” In October of that year, Rob Ford was elected mayor.
Broadcasting
According to the National Post, Tory was drawn to broadcasting even as a top executive at Rogers, and hosted a community access public affairs show on Rogers Cable. In 2009, after leaving provincial politics, Tory began hosting a daily three-hour afternoon radio show called The Live Drive on CFRB (Newstalk 1010), Canada’s largest talk radio station. He had often said that hosting a radio program was always his dream job. He held the hosting position until 2014, when he stepped down to again run for mayor of Toronto.
Successful Campaign for Mayor (2014)
Tory entered the race for mayor in the final months of Rob Ford’s tumultuous term. By the time the campaign kicked off, Ford, who was running for re-election, had been stripped of key executive powers following an admission that he had smoked crack cocaine while in office. Tory was seen as a steady and experienced alternative who shared Ford’s fiscal conservatism, though not his firebrand approach or personal problems. Tory’s other main opponent was Olivia Chow, a former Toronto city councillor, MP for the New Democratic Party, and the widow of federal NDP leader Jack Layton.
In September, Ford was diagnosed with cancer and was replaced as a candidate by his brother, then-councillor Doug Ford. Despite Doug Ford’s late entry into the race and the perception that he was less popular than his brother, the final result was closer than expected. Tory was elected with 394,775 votes (40.3 per cent). Doug Ford received 330,610 votes (33.7 per cent) and Chow 226,879 (23.2 per cent).
During the election campaign, Tory promised to address Toronto’s transit woes through a 22-stop surface rail line called SmartTrack, and a new subway line into downtown. He also promised to build separated bike lanes and other cycling infrastructure, to bridge the political divide between downtown and suburban residents, and to keep taxes low.
First Term as Mayor (2014–18)
Over the first half of his four-year term, Tory won praise for restoring calm, consistency and a sense of normalcy in the wake of predecessor Rob Ford’s tumultuous term. He restored civility at City Hall and brought a workmanlike, professional approach to the mayor's office. He initiated important reforms on poverty reduction and affordable housing. He also restored several transit services that had been slashed by the previous administration.
Tory was tripped up by the debate over the controversial police practice of “street checks” or “carding” — collecting personal information on people stopped by police — a practice seen as discriminatory against Black people and other minorities. After first supporting carding, Tory changed his mind and said it should be banned. He then passed the issue to the provincial government, which banned the practice in 2017.
Tory was criticized for unveiling a SmartTrack system that was much smaller in scope than what he had promised in the campaign. The original plan of building 22 stations along existing rail lines by 2021 was eventually shrunk to only five stations by 2026, at a cost of $1.46 billion. Construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, begun in 2011 and scheduled for completion by 2020, also faced similar delays. As of December 2022, there was no completion date in sight.
Tory announced on 1 May 2018 that he would run for re-election. By the end of August, polls showed that he had a 58 per cent approval rating, while 65 per cent of respondents said they would vote for him. In the election on 22 October 2018, Tory cruised to victory with 63.5 per cent of the vote. Former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat placed a distant second with 23.6 per cent.
Second Term as Mayor (2018–22)
Tory had campaigned for a second term on a platform that included building more affordable housing, investing in arts and culture, improving public transit, and introducing new road safety measures. Construction of the downtown relief line for the Toronto subway was scheduled to be completed by 2029, two years ahead of schedule, thanks to a $162 million budget increase Tory secured in 2019.
Canada’s first case of COVID-19 was recorded in Toronto on 23 January 2020. Tory declared a local state of emergency on 23 March. Schools were closed and teaching was shifted to remote learning. In May, Tory announced the development of the ActiveTO program to create more space for the general public in certain neighbourhoods by closing or restricting major roadways each weekend. Tory implemented mask mandates in indoor public spaces in July. Working closely with the province, he placed Toronto under lockdown from 23 November to 26 December. Tory also oversaw a successful vaccination campaign, including the administration of a world record 26, 771 doses on 27 June 2021, which Tory declared Toronto Vaccine Day.
In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd murder in the US and the death of Toronto resident Regis Korchinski-Paquet in the course of a mental health check by police, a motion was introduced in Toronto City Council to defund the Toronto Police Service by $122 million, or 10 per cent of its annual budget, and divert that amount to social services. Tory instead pledged $5 million to equip police officers with body cameras. He also created a Community Crisis Service program that would reform the police by offering “a robust system of social supports and services.” It would also develop “alternative models of community safety response,” including having unarmed social workers respond to non-violent incidents and mental health checks. The program was officially launched in March 2022.
In summer 2021, Tory drew criticism for spending $2 million to have police clear homeless encampments from several parks. Violent clashes occurred between protestors and riot police as encampments were cleared. The city also shut down a local initiative called Toronto Tiny Shelters, which built tiny homes to help people stay warm in the winter. Tory’s administration argued that the shelters, built on city property, were fire hazards, and pointed to a fatal fire at an encampment in February as reason for concern.
By summer 2022, the ActiveTO program had reached a turning point. Cycling advocates and residential groups called for the weekend road closures to be permanent. But some residents and businesses argued that rebounding traffic volumes post-lockdown necessitated a return to normal traffic flows. The Toronto Blue Jays, for example, argued that closing Lake Shore West would hurt attendance at home games. Tory, along with a majority on city council, voted to limit closures on Lake Shore West rather than have them every weekend. However, this led to a conflict of interest complaint against Tory, who is both a paid member of the Rogers family trust and a shareholder of Rogers Communications, which owns the Blue Jays. In December 2022, the city’s integrity commissioner exonerated Tory, finding that he did not break any conflict of interest rules. However, Tory had found himself in a similarly conflicted situation in the fall of 2021, when his position with Rogers put him in the middle of a family feud for control of the company.
Tory often said publicly that he had promised his wife he would not seek a third term as mayor. But in March 2022, he announced that he had received his wife’s blessing to run for re-election. His eventual victory was widely seen as a foregone conclusion. His victory in the election on 24 October proved even more lopsided than in 2018. He won 62 per cent of the vote, while the second-place finisher, progressive urban planner Gil Penalosa, took only 17.9 per cent. Tory won the mayoral vote in all 25 of the city’s wards. Voter turnout was only 29.2 per cent, a record low. Tory’s victory put him on track to serve as mayor for 12 years, which would have made him Toronto’s longest-serving mayor, surpassing Art Eggleton’s 11 years in the role (1980–91).
Third Term (2022–23)
On 8 December 2022, the Ontario government passed legislation giving so-called “strong mayor” powers to the mayors of Ottawa and Toronto. The powers — which include the ability to unilaterally draft and table the city’s budget, to pass measures with the support of only one-third of council, and to veto bylaws approved by council — were designed to help achieve the Ontario government’s goal of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years. The powers were criticized by many as anti-democratic. Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe said that he would not use them. Tory said that he would do so only to advance policies of “citywide importance.”
Tory drew criticism for increasing the city’s police budget by $48.3 million while allocating no new money for community services such as shelters and warming centres for those experiencing homelessness. Many critics pointed to such service cuts as the reason for a 60 per cent-increase in violent incidences on Toronto transit since 2019.
Resignation
On 10 February 2023, the Toronto Star published a story alleging that the 68-year-old Tory had had an affair with a 31-year-old staff member. The affair was said to have begun during the COVID-19 pandemic and was ongoing during the 2022 mayoral campaign, though the staffer had moved on from her role at city hall in early 2021. Shortly after the story was published, Tory admitted it was true. He said that “permitting this relationship to develop was a serious error in judgment on my part… I’m deeply sorry and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto and to all those hurt by my actions… I’ve decided that I will step down as mayor so that I can take the time to reflect on my mistakes and to do the work of rebuilding the trust with my family.”
Tory remained in office until after a council meeting on 15 February to finalize the city’s 2023 operating budget. This drew sharp criticism from many on the left, while many on the right, including Premier Doug Ford, urged Tory to continue as mayor. But Tory announced that he would indeed follow through on his resignation. It became official at 5:00 p.m. on 17 February 2023.
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In 1954, Mr. Tory’s twin sons John A. Tory and James M. Tory joined the firm, along with their law school classmates, Arthur Binnington and William DesLauriers. The firm was ultimately renamed Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington.
John S.D. Tory passed away in 1965, leaving the firm in his sons’ hands. Although the Tory brothers were only 35 years old, together with their partners, they grew the firm, maintaining and developing relationships with leading corporate clients through their values-based, client-first approach to legal practice. As James M. Tory explained:
It is in these early years that the firm began to develop its culture and values…the importance of true partnership involving mutual respect; maintaining the highest standards of work quality; and devoting the best of the firm’s resources to each client—only possible if clients are clients of the firm rather than of individual partners. This was easy as we were all good friends.
In the late 1960s, the firm added to its leading corporate practice a litigation practice, which was enhanced a few years later with the firm's 1972 merger with litigation boutique, Kimber, Dubin, headed by future Chief Justice of Ontario, Charles L. Dubin.
In 1973, John Tory left the firm to serve as senior financial adviser to Ken Thomson in the management and expansion of the Thomson Family companies, while James M. Tory continued to lead the firm.
From the 1970s through to the 1990s, the firm continued to forge lasting relationships with clients, securing its reputation as one of Canada’s leading business law firms.
The year 2000 brought another milestone to the firm's history, as Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington merged with a New York corporate firm whose predecessor was established in 1948. The firm rebranded to create Torys LLP.
In 2011, Torys further expanded its practice by opening a Calgary office. In April 2013, Torys opened its Montréal office and in 2014 announced the opening of the Torys Legal Services Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Today, Torys LLP is a globally recognized law firm with offices in Toronto, New York, Calgary, Montréal and Halifax.
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Toronto mayoral candidate Ana Bailão received a much sought-after endorsement Wednesday from former mayor John Tory, but experts and political watchers say it might not necessarily be the game-changing leg up she’s hoping it will be.
With days left before voters go to the poll in a special byelection being held to replace him, Tory said his former deputy mayor and council ally Bailão is the one for the job. In a roughly six-minute video, Tory said Bailão will fix housing, transit and a slew of other problems.
While the endorsement of the popular former mayor who stepped down just months ago is the most high-profile of the race, it certainly hasn’t been the only one.
Nine sitting councillors have said they are supporting Bailão, while six are supporting Olivia Chow and one is supporting Mark Saunders. Seven councillors have not said who they are supporting.
But while candidates might trumpet those endorsements, it’s not clear whether they necessarily translate into votes.
“I think it always helps to have people in your corner and supporting you, but whether that actually is guiding people's voting decisions, really is a bit of an open question here,” Professor Matti Siemiatycki, director of the Infrastructure Institute at UofT and a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, told CP24.com.
While a recent Mainstreet Research poll indicated that candidate support was higher in areas where there have been endorsements for that candidate, it’s difficult to tell whether it’s higher because of the endorsement, or whether the councillor in that area is simply reflecting what their constituents are already feeling in terms of candidate choice.
“It's a matter of whether it's actually shaping voter intention,” Siemiatycki said.
Those who have experience in campaigns say endorsements sound great, but their significance is overblown.
“I've been involved in politics a long, long time. I don't think I have ever been involved in a campaign where an endorsement actually made a difference,” CTV political commentator Scott Reid told CP24 Wednesday. “They’re the fool’s gold of elections. They attract a lot of attention, but they usually have very little worth.”
Political strategist Kim Wright sounded a similar note.
“Ultimately, endorsements are for money, momentum or manpower. Those are the three things that those come for,” Wright told CP24.
She said the same is true even for a big endorsement like John Tory, and added that his support for Bailão would've been more useful earlier in the campaign ahead of advance voting if it was going to make a difference.
Wright also pointed out that Tory’s endorsement this past fall was not enough to seal victory for some of the council candidates he endorsed.
“As much as it's great to get an endorsement — it's much better than not getting an endorsement — the campaigns that he endorsed in the last election didn't win out,” Wright said. “He didn't bring new blood to council on his coattails.”
Many of the new faces who came to council after beating Tory-backed candidates have in fact thrown their support behind Chow. That includes Davenport Coun. Alejandra Bravo, who won Bailão’s old seat in the fall.
Regardless of whether the endorsements are effective for the candidates, one might wonder wehther they will contribute to a more fractured politics after the race.
But while it might seem like council is divided, with clusters of councillors supporting different candidates, Siemiatycki says most of them will likely be motivated to work with whoever gets in once the dust settles on the election.
“I think they move on pretty quickly, actually,” he said. “I think that's probably just because there's so many new issues that arise that they have to deal with and they're each trying to negotiate for the best position for themselves and their constituents.”
He said the fact that municipal politics does not work on a party system is helpful in that regard.
“In municipal council, the allegiances kind of shift depending on issues. It's not party based, right. It's much more individual and much more negotiated in that way.”
Whoever wins the mayoral race will also have a number of tools at their disposal to bring members of council on board. They include committee appointments and stronger powers which give them more control over the budget.
“Once the election is over,” Siemiatycki says, “then it's time to get down to business.
WHO THEY’RE BACKING: THE CANDIDATES BEING ENDORSED OR SUPPORTED BY MEMBERS OF TORONTO CITY COUNCIL
Ana Bailão
Paul Ainslie
Shelley Carroll
Frances Nunziata
Jennifer McKelvie
Nick Mantas
Chris Moise
James Pasternak
Michael Thompson
Vincent Crisanti
Mike Colle
Brad Bradford
Himself
Olivia Chow
Ausma Malik
Amber Morley
Jamaal Myers
Gord Perks
Alejandra Bravo
Paula Fletcher
Josh Matlow
Himself
Mark Saunders
Stephen Holyday
None - Councillors who are undeclared or have said they are not supporting anyone
Jon Burnside
Lily Cheng
Gary Crawford
Jaye Robinson
Dianne Saxe
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Well, let me deal with the most important part of this first, which is to do with how we chose to regulate Uber in the end, although that has become a model the people around the globe are looking at as being successful, but the most important thing is obviously that we make sure that Toronto residents, in any vehicle or in any place, are safe from being assaulted, sexually or otherwise and in that case, one of the advantages to the Uber system is that it actually does allow you more so than any other kind of vehicle of its kind to know who the driver is, to know when the pickup took place, and a lot of those kinds of details that oftentimes in a taxi cab you don't know.
And so we have to count on the company and they have been very cooperative when incidents of this kind have come up to provide that information to the police when an allegation of this kind or an incident of this kind happens, and I think that that is actually one advantage to that system in that the technology actually allows you to see who the passenger was, who the driver was, exactly what time and place things happened because it does record that. Having said all of that, I think we have to, and we certainly have indicated to Uber as we do to the taxi industry, that we have zero tolerance for that sort of thing and when I say we, we are the regulators of those businesses. We are not the police. The city oversees the police but the police operate under their own leadership accountable to a Police Services Board of which I am a member, and I can only say that I think the message has been sent loud and clear that there's zero tolerance for that kind of thing or anything even approaching it.
And I think as these incidents have come up, fortunately they have been few and far between, they've been death with by Uber and/or by the taxi companies and/or by us in a stricter manner as you possibly could expect and the police have, again, tried to do their job. I want to just say on the general subject of Uber and how it was admitted into the Toronto marketplace, they came into the Toronto marketplace in a way that I did not approve of where they just came in here and operated without any regulation at all, and just figured they could just arrive and so on. I came to the conclusion partly for reasons of what I think is sound strategy for the city and partly for reasons of accepting reality. By the time I took office, they were into the hundreds of thousands of customers in Toronto, and so if I was to do what people were urging me to do from the cab industry and other quarters who supported the status quo, they just wanted me to send them out of town packing and tell them to sort of roll up their carpets and leave.
I didn't think that was either realistic or good for the city. I believe this city should be serving as a home for people who have disruptive technologies who represent the way of doing things in the future, but that they have to come into a city and do business on a basis that is fair. So instead of trying to chance them out of town as they've tried to do in a number of other cities and had huge conflicts in the process, we worked instead to develop a series of regulations that essentially accomplish two things.
One, it brought Uber under regulation so there was a degree of control, and this is important to your question, the sexual assault part, that there were screenings done of the drivers that were satisfactory to us that were similar to the screenings that are done on cab drivers, screenings as in personal background checks that met a standard we set. Two, that there was insurance in place to protect people that is equivalent to what taxi cab drivers are required to have. And three, that the rules under which they operated were equitable vis a vis fair competition with the cab industry who've been around for a long time and paid money for their licenses.
At the same time, the second objective we were trying to set was to lessen the regulatory load on taxis so that they could compete more fairly because over time they'd become subject to a lot of long pages and books full of regulations, and we actually did reduce some of that regulatory load and reduce some of the requirements on that, and the idea was to create a circumstance in which people could be safe. First and foremost, safe from assault, safe from accidents, safe from drivers that had bad backgrounds, could have choice and including the adoption of and embracing of the latest technology of which Uber was a representative, and that they would compete fairly with taxis.
And I am proud of what we achieved there because you haven't heard much about it in terms of conflict since that time, and unlike some other cities where they "successfully" chased Uber out of town, we have Uber here and I quite frankly hope some of the other companies like Lyft will come here and compete as well so we'll have even more choice, because I think that's good for consumers to have choice as long as it's fair choice, safe choice, and regulated choice and I think that's what we have in Toronto now.
Well, I don't accept the premise of the question and what a sanctuary city is meant to mean, and I think anybody should take a look at the wording of what is said, and I think actually the notion of Toronto being a sanctuary city, if you look at it for what it is, is something that we would buy into as part of those sort of pretty basic values that I talked about earlier on. What it says is that if somebody shows up for a city of Toronto service, so if they show up to use the library or if they show up to public health to get a vaccination for their children, they're not going to be asked to show their documentation that proves their citizenship.
We will say look, they're a resident of the city. Their immigration status actually doesn't matter in the context of their getting their child vaccinated or using the library, and that it is not consistent with the way we generally do business that you'd be asked for your immigration papers. I mean, think about it for a minute. Some of you in this room are probably permanent residents of Canada as opposed to citizens. Do we go around saying to people, "We want you to show us your documentation to show whether you're a citizen or a permanent resident." No, we don't.
Now, I'm not condoning the fact that people will enter the country outside of the law and there are people who have done that over time and some of them have now lived here for 20 or 25 or 30 years and have had three or four children here who are Canadians themselves, and I would say that that is a failure of the federal governments over time of all parties, to sort of decide they were going to do something to allow those people to regularize their documentation because it's a politically explosive issue and nobody's been prepared to sort of deal with it, which would be the sort of fair and appropriate way to address the fact there are people living in our midst who every day perform important functions in the city working somewhere, doing work for people, and have families that go to school and so forth and so on.
But having said that, given that we have those people, are we going to get into a situation where we're going to start to get people to show their documentation that sort of proves what their citizenship is any time they're wanting to access a city service? And so I guess I would just say I'm comfortable with where we are as a sanctuary city because I think it sends the message out that obviously, and I said this in a letter I wrote on refugees today or yesterday to the Minister of Immigration, it is very important to me in the context of even our very open hearted and open minded and open arms approach to refugees in the current global context that due process be followed, we have a system that has worked well for us over time to apply due process to both those who are applying as refugees and to the country, to represent the country's best interests, and I think that has to continue, but at the same time I think we have to be open hearted and open minded with respect to the fact there are people in this city who are here today that we don't want to be.
For example, let me give you an even more stark example. Are we going to turn away somebody at a city operated shelter on a cold night like tonight because we have somehow somebody decides it's in their best interest to ask them to show their papers? Their papers with regard to their immigration status. Is that a relevant consideration to those people being admitted to a shelter overnight or not, and I would say it's not. They're human beings that are living in the city and they may be living in a different status or on a different basis than some of the rest of us are, and that should probably be resolved over time, but that it certainly shouldn't affect their access to basic services, which is really what the sanctuary city designation says.
Well the obvious response you often hear, and thank you for the question, is that we should sort of more strictly enforce the hate crime laws, but that's complicated and I don't know if you've discussed those laws but what actually has to happen there is that the police, in consultation with the [inaudible] attorneys, have to designate to give an offense as being something motivated by hatred and it then gets treated differently in terms of the penalty that's applied and so on, and that law's under review right now in Ottawa. I don't think law at the end of the day is going to represent the answer, because a lot of these people I would describe as being sort of deranged and obsessed people who the law to them doesn't really matter. I mean, the fact that like last night somebody would try to burn a Mosque is like, to me, such an act of treachery and so on that those people don't pay attention to what the law says.
So I think what we have to do, and I had a meeting yesterday in the wake of these events, the anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim events, I had a meeting of all the different faith leaders from every faith you could possibly imagine. I mean, when I say every one there was like 40 people in the room so there were 40 faiths represented but I'm sure there are others. But we have 40, or 20, 35 faith leaders in the room, and what they focused on was a couple of things. I would say coming out of that meeting, and we're now going to take the list away, they focused on education, and I know it sounds like something we would say, "Well, education." We always hear that and people will roll their eyes.
We simply have to have people understand more about each other's faiths, understand that the strength of Toronto is represented by the fact that people have come here from different faith groups that oftentimes didn't get along at all in other places where they might have come from, but have been able to coexist here on the basis that we made an effort to understand each other and to understand we're all in this together, and if we could have people learn about each other's faiths... And they told me some interesting stories yesterday about programs where people have gone to visit a group of Jewish leaders will go to a Mosque and they'll talk to each other about their respective faiths.
And what you figure out, by the way, because when you're in a job like mine I've been to every kind of religious institution that you could name, a religious place, and seen every kind of service and you come to realize, of course, that pretty well all of them are based on the same core set of values about how you treat each other and things you don't do and things you do and how you look after each other and so forth. They really are. I mean, the Quran and the Bible and the Torah and so on, if you look at those they contain many of the same fundamental underlying values and I think the more we understand that, the more we realize what an artificial division it is between people who are Muslim and Jewish and Christian and Buddhist and all the rest.
So education was something they named and then secondly they said, "We've got to keep demonstrating in the city every day the fact that we do live differently here." We are weaving a different narrative for the world of how instead of moving in the direction as we're seeing in many places in the world, including some close to home where we're trying to polarize people based on their faith or their skin color or a bunch of other stuff, their sexual orientation, what have we done here? We've said, "No. We recognize people are going to be different. We're going to celebrate that. We're going to learn from that. We're going to strengthen ourselves for that," and they felt that the outward articulation of that by leaders but also events that show that you'll have people standing together.
This is one of the great strengths of Pride in Toronto is that Pride isn't a million people who are all LGBTQ. I mean, there are many who are but there are lots of other people who aren't who are there to say, "Hey, we all live here together. You're fabulous fellow citizens. We're celebrating that you've had certain victories in your rights and certain other challenges that still lie in front of you," and so on and so on. It's a celebration, and so that was the underlying message that came from this was yes, make sure the law is applied and strengthened as much as it can be, make sure we make a huge effort at education so people understand the importance of this and not letting our way of life get messed up by what's going on around the world, and thirdly to make sure we have people see every day the strength that comes from diversity and the strength that comes from inclusion, as opposed to the downside of polarization that you're seeing happening elsewhere.
And so I'm trying to be upfront about that every single day, just about, and there are people who criticize me for that because they have a slightly different view and if they don't like it, I guess they can vote me out at the next election and I hope they won't, for a bunch of reasons, but I hope that's one of them that we need to stay the course on our values. Our values are the ones that are admired around the world and I think we are not perfect, but we're weaving a much different narrative than many other places.
Well that's a good question, [Tassy], and I would only say to you that a lot of things that are controversial strike fear into the hearts of politicians. The question of underfunding is a different question and I think I covered that by sort of saying that one person would say it's underfunded, one person would say it's overfunded. So I think what we did was we established a budget, which is in the 10s of millions of dollars of new money put in this year's budget, to do the things that we felt were going to be effective in cutting down to zero, hopefully, the number of pedestrians that were killed, because we did have a very, very unacceptable year last year. I mean, any death is unacceptable but last year it got to kind of new record levels, and we're actually out there doing the things now that need to be done.
So when you mention speed limits, there are speed limits being changed all over the city. All over the city, the road safety plan that sets a zero target changed speed limits in many areas where there had been a particular incidence of pedestrians and drivers getting into collisions, and so those were changed. In the city of Toronto itself, like the city of Toronto, the downtown part, they have a community council. It took the decision to change all the speed limits on their streets because it's a local decision they can make within the context of our city government.
We have sought and received permission, although it's not been legislated yet, it's frustrating because it takes so long, to reintroduce photo radar, which was very controversial. I mean, a lot of people didn't like it but we got permission to reintroduce it in school zones so that in school zones we can cover a lot more of them, make kids safer but not have police officers' time tied up sitting in a car with a radar gun, which is frankly the old fashioned, very expensive, non-sustainable way of doing it. We are changing the configuration of the roads all over the city, the intersections, so that we're making it more necessary for cars to pay more attention to pedestrians because they're forced to by the configuration of the roads.
We've changed traffic signals all over the city to take account of the fact that seniors with the aging population are taking longer to cross the street so we should allow them that time even if it makes drivers wait a little bit longer so seniors can get across the street and not be unsafe. We're creating senior safety zones, which are zones where there will be signage and speed limits and so on that will be different because a majority, about 60% of all the pedestrian deaths that happened last year happened to people who were, I think, 55 or 60 years of age and older, so there are a lot of things we're doing as part of this plan and it's not representing any lack of courage or boldness. There's only so much you can do at a time. I think the money that's been allocated is certainly very sufficient to get a very substantial amount done in the next few years and we're out doing it because we take this very seriously and we have set the goal of saying zero, which is a goal that we're going to work hard to achieve.
Well I have been like a broken record on the latter point, which is to make sure the federal government comes through with its commitments that they made during the election campaign, and I will tell you they have been good partners for Toronto on transit funding so far, and we've had extensive discussions because they haven't announce their plan for housing funding. It's going to come in the budget will come sometime in the next probably 30 days, and I have joined together with all of the other big city mayors, so we're a united front on this, in asking them to specifically carve out, because they have something now call a social infrastructure fund which could cover a whole bunch of things, and we've said housing is so urgent in the big cities that we've calculated a number we think that would be adequate to allow us to get a much better head start than the rather small number of 4000 units spread across the country. That doesn't do much when there's thousands of people looking for affording housing.
And so we've asked them to carve out of the infrastructure plan over the next number of years 12.6 billion dollars for housing and Toronto would be the single biggest recipient of that money, simply because the scale of the problem here is bigger than it is obviously anywhere else in the country. If they come through with that, and I have reason to believe they will, first of all you'll see me commending them heartily because that was the right thing to do. Secondly, we've said to them they must insist in the next round of announcement of this money that the province's match their money, because what happened with the transit money is in some provinces, the province did not match the federal government's money and if they do match then you get obviously twice as much, and then the municipality adds some of its own money and you end up with a very substantial sum of money to build affordable housing because addressing the supply issue is really the number one key to trying to make more affordable housing available to more people.
Simply passing laws to say, "Well, we're going to put on a foreign buyers tax or we're going to impose rent controls," I happen to believe that when rent controls were imposed in this province previously back 25 or 30 years ago, they didn't work because what they succeeded in doing was creating a false environment in which rents were controlled, but all that succeeded in doing was making sure that nobody built any rental apartments at all. There were none built for probably 20 years in Ontario because people said, "Well, why would we put our money into that when we're going to get no return because the government's saying we're not allowed to get a proper return on their money? So instead we'll go build something else." They either build single family homes or they went and built apartments somewhere else, and I just think they've been proven over and over again in all parts of the world not to work, and so if you don't favor that then you have to favor the only other alternative, which is increase the supply of affordable rental housing, and I'll mention one last thing.
We have taken some steps as the city, regardless of what the other governments do, to encourage developers to build affordable rental housing by, for example, putting up I think 15 now valuable pieces of city land. We've said, "We'll put up that land which is a big cost of a developer, obviously, when they come to build a building, if you will come along and build only affordable rental and ownership housing. It has to be affordable and we will either give you that land, we'll lease it to you for a dollar a year, or make some very favorable arrangement with that piece of land," and on the first three pieces of land out of the 15 or whatever the number is, we've had huge competitive response to it, so we have a competition among developers to get the right to build it, and we've created as opposed to the last year before I took office where we had zero units of affordably housing, I think this year we've already approved hundreds of units of affordable housing that are going to be built.
And it's still not enough, but I'm hopeful with this money that's going to come, I'm confident in the budget we'll both be able to get on with the appalling backlog of repairs on the social housing in which we ask our most vulnerable people to live, citizens, and the supply of affordable housing that you talked about.
No, and that's why the Police Services Board... I mean, the way you described the history, I won't go back and give you the entire history, but the bottom line is that by virtue of provincial regulation that they subsequently took on and passed a regulation province wide which the Toronto Police Services Board has adopted and put a policy in place underneath that regulation. The practice of carding, which is you have to be careful how you use these words, but carding was the arbitrary stopping of people in the street who were not suspected of or accused of doing anything merely for the purposes of kind of asking them questions about who they were and why they were there and so forth and so on.
And if you said to me do I believe, and of course the facts have shown that especially in the years when carding was most prevalent which was around 2011 and 2011, when in Toronto there were 250000 people and the carding name came from the fact that there was a card that police officers filled out that had information about the person they stopped, and there were 250000 people stopped in each of those years, and disproportionately they were people of color and from racialized communities and in all cases, though, of the carding pretty much they were people who weren't doing anything. They were just sort of walking down the street or wherever they were, and it might have been in the middle of the night, it might have been in the middle of the day.
And do I think under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in this country that we have the right to walk down the street and not be stopped arbitrarily unless there is some suspicion that we're involved in a crime or for purposes of investigating a crime that's occurred? No, I don't think that police should be doing that and I voted accordingly to institute a policy that is now in place and the training has happened underneath that policy, it goes a couple of steps further which you'll be interested to know that that doesn't mean, and that's one of the things that's been misunderstood in the city is that people now think no one will ever be stopped by the police again unless they literally sort of just left the bank with a gun in their hand and a bag of money.
The police are now still have to go on stopping people because they might believe they're suspicious of something happening or because they are trying to investigate a crime, but they now have to inform people if they do stop them that you have the right not to answer the police's questions if they are just asking you how you're going or why you're where you are, and they have to tell you that right proactively and say to you, "Now, you do have the right not to talk to me if you don't want to," and that didn't necessarily sit that well with the police who felt that would make it difficult for them to have conversations that can be very beneficial.
I mean, conversations between the police and people in the community lies at the heart of having a proper relationship between the police and the community where they build trust in each other, but the bottom line is I can tell you that the policies that are in place today if you read them, and are voted for by me and other members of the Police Board, it was unanimous, quite expressly set out that this arbitrary stopping of people on the street just in the hopes you might find something out or you might take down some information about them has now been precluded from happening and there are very strict rules in place, including the proactive information to be given to people about their rights that now applies and information about how the data that is collected from people will be safeguarded, so that's where the thing stands today.
It's a very difficult issue and I had to learn about it, I'll be honest with you. And you know, I'm a [inaudible]. I'm the first mayor, I think, ever elected to the mayoralty city of Toronto without having first served on the city council, so if I told you I had a lot to learn when I walked into this place where many of the people had served there for 25 years, including about the police and about the practices of the police and how things unfolded, and I'll admit I've made some mistakes in things that I've said or done on some of these issues.
I'm a human being. I'm not perfect, far from it. My wife would tell you that in spades, and my kids, and my grandchildren, but I'm a human being and I'm learning as I go and I hope I'm working hard and learning fast, but a lot of these issues are incredibly complicated and you're going to put a foot wrong in the odd time. I think I've done not too much of that, but that was an issue where I got off to a bit of a rocky start in terms of exactly how to deal with it the right way, but I think we arrived at the right place in the end, which is what's really important.
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The leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party says he has told his caucus that he will be stepping down as leader following a crushing byelection loss.
"Earlier this afternoon, I informed the caucus that I had written to the party president to tender my resignation as leader following the selection of an interim leader by the caucus," John Tory, who lost to a Liberal in the Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock byelection on Thursday night, said Friday.
Speaking to reporters at Queen's Park, Tory admitted that going into the contest, he knew the riding "would be challenging." But they couldn't find a better one for him to regain a seat in the legislature.
"We ran a good campaign, but what I would call the process issue was too dominant for too long," he said.
Liberal opponent Rick Johnson, who has lived in the riding for 22 years, defeated Tory in the PC-friendly east-central riding on Thursday evening.
According to unofficial results posted to the Elections Ontario website, Johnson received 15,482 votes, while Tory received 14,576 votes -- a 906-vote margin of victory. Johnson thinks Tory's lack of roots in the area made the difference.
Prior to Thursday, the riding had been continuously held by PC candidates since 1994. Former MPP Laurie Scott, who stepped aside for Tory, had won by about 10,000 votes in 2007. Proportionally, Tory lost about 20 per cent of the support Scott enjoyed. Johnson saw his vote share rise by almost 50 per cent. He would have picked up from the NDP and Greens, but much of that support would have come from people who previously voted Conservative.
However, the Liberals put some effort into keeping Tory out of the legislature. About a week before calling the election, the government announced that Highway 407, the toll road, would be extended to Clarington -- and kept under provincial control. The Tory government of Mike Harris privatized the original Highway 407. Tory had promised to make highways an issue.
Premier Dalton McGuinty and some cabinet colleagues campaigned for Johnson.
Before Tory's announcement, McGuinty had already thanked Tory for his "dedication to public service."
McGuinty said he had his differences with Tory on political issues, which is part of democracy, but he never doubted his opponent's integrity or commitment to Ontario.
But MPP Bill Murdoch, kicked out of the P.C. caucus for challenging Tory's leadership of the party, said the defeated candidate's "egotism" had hurt the party.
Tory's rocky road
Tory has been involved with the Progressive Conservative party for more than 40 years, becoming party leader in September 2004.
His future as party leader has been in question since the 2007 provincial election defeat, which handed McGuinty a second consecutive majority government and left Tory seatless. Tory supported a controversial proposal to extend public funding to all faith-based schools.
Tory received only lukewarm support in a January 2008 PC leadership review and has fought off continued calls for his resignation -- especially from the harder-edged believers in Harris's "Common Sense Revolution."
"If there is work to do, it is on unity," Tory said. "We must pull together a diverse group of wonderful activists, broadening the base through outreach as I did, cementing a place for ourselves in the mainstream of Ontario's political culture."
The party must be united going into the 2011 provincial election, he said, adding he found the unity issue to be very challenging. "I hope the new leader is blessed with greater success on this file, as I believe it is so important to our overall goal of achieving government," Tory said.
Following Tory's Thursday evening defeat, the newly-elected Johnson paid tribute to his hard-working opponent, who has struggled to make his mark as a politician.
"I guess it's like in baseball: three strikes and you're out - and that's what John's dealing with," Johnson said when celebrating his win at a pub.
"But I have respect for John. He's done great things for this province and this country, and we haven't heard the last of John."
Tory, who began his political career working for former Ontario premier Bill Davis, also ran for mayor of Toronto in 2003. He lost to David Miller.
Outside of politics, Tory has practiced law, served as an executive at Rogers Media, as well as Rogers Cable, and is a former CFL commissioner.
Tory's regrets, future
Tory got emotional in thanking his "wonderful" staff for putting up with him "in terms of my constant desire to do better" and to his family, at which point he had to stop and compose himself.
Tory also said he felt he got an overall fair, professional shake from the news media.
"I will end somewhere where I can make a difference," he said.
"Circumstances made it such that I quite frankly had less time to make the difference I think I could have made in the past few years," he said, his voice shaking.
"I ended up, as circumstances dictated, fighting six major campaigns in a five-year period in politics," Tory said. "What that meant is I spent too much time campaigning, and too little time on the things that mattered to me."
But experience has taught him that one can make a contribution to public life outside of politics, he said.
"I have a ton of energy, I have a little bit of ability, I have lots of compassion and my integrity is intact -- and that is something that I'm very proud of after 4� years in politics," Tory said.
Possible successors
Two veterans of the Mike Harris years, now federal cabinet ministers, took themselves out of the running.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Transport Minister John Baird both say they are happy in their current jobs.
Baird did say it will take a significant amount of soul searching" to get the provincial party ready to challenge for power in 2011.
Kitcher-Waterloo MPP and deputy party leader Elizabeth Witmer indicated she may run for the job and that up to seven people might eventually run.
Other names being speculated about include:
Niagara West Glanbrook MPP Tim Hudak, the party's finance critic
Thornill MPP Peter Shurman, a first-term politician and former broadcaster
Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington MPP Randy Hillier, a first-time politician and former rural rights activist
Whitby-Ajax MPP Christine Elliott, Flaherty's wife
Waterloo-Wellington MPP Ted Arnott
CTV Toronto's Paul Bliss said whoever take over will face a rebuilding job, particularly in the area of fundraising.
In the meantime, with the NDP electing a new leader this weekend, the two opposition parties don't appear well-placed to hold the McGuinty government to account.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Paul Bliss and files from The Canadian Press
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Born and raised in Toronto, John Tory is the current Mayor of Toronto, first elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2018.
Mayor Tory has worked to build the city up as a global hub for technology and innovation. He has worked to secure billions of dollars in support from the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario for transit expansion, affordable housing and infrastructure investments.
Over the last two years, the Mayor has been leading Torontoâs response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring that the City government does everything it can to help people get through this emergency. As weâve made progress fighting the pandemic, the Mayor has also focused on the cityâs reopening to help build up the economy and create jobs. He is determined that Toronto will come back stronger than ever.
Under Mayor Toryâs leadership, the City has implemented innovative programs to help residents and businesses safely deal with the challenges of the pandemic. Throughout the crisis, the Mayor has worked with City Council, the federal and provincial governments, and surrounding municipalities. His commitment to strong partnerships and cooperation has helped deliver billions of dollars in emergency support for Toronto and all municipalities across Canada. This funding has helped increase services responding directly to the pandemic and protected frontline municipal services we know all residents rely on.
A major part of the ongoing response to the pandemic has been the Team Toronto effort underway to deliver COVID-19 vaccine doses to all Toronto residents, including kids ages 5-11. Toronto leads major world cities when it comes to COVID-19 vaccination rates thanks to this effort championed by Mayor Tory.
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TORONTO — Toronto’s mayor resigned unexpectedly on Friday night after admitting to a relationship with a staff member.
John Tory made the announcement at a news conference several hours after receiving questions from The Toronto Star, which broke the story, about the relationship with a woman the newspaper said was a former employee of his office.
The relationship began during the pandemic and “ended by mutual consent earlier this year,” Mr. Tory said, calling the episode “a serious error in judgment.”
“It came at a time when Barb, my wife of 40-plus years, and I were enduring many lengthy periods apart while I carried out my responsibilities during the pandemic,” he said.
Mr. Tory said he had alerted the city’s integrity commissioner of the relationship for review, and would work with senior staff members, including Jennifer McKelvie, Toronto’s deputy mayor, on a transition “in the coming days.”
Michael Thompson, the previous deputy mayor, a largely ceremonial post, resigned last fall after facing sexual assault charges.
A lawyer by training and a former leader of Ontario’s Conservative Party, Mr. Tory was elected in 2014 as mayor of Toronto, Canada’s largest city. He succeeded Rob Ford, who was stripped of most of his power, but refused to resign, after he confessed to smoking crack cocaine. Mr. Ford began treatment for malignant liposarcoma, a rare cancer, in 2014 and died in 2016 at age 46.
Following four tumultuous years of Mr. Ford, who was criticized for a lack of civility at City Hall, Mr. Tory ushered in a period of stability, albeit with a mixed record. He promoted ambitious transit plans in his campaigns that critics say have fallen short in delivery, and successfully lobbied the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, for “strong mayor” powers. That measure, effective first in Toronto and Ottawa but later to be rolled out elsewhere in the province, gives mayors more sway over the city budget, as well as expanded power to pass or veto city bylaws.
Mr. Tory did not take questions from reporters on Friday.
“I deeply regret having to step away from a job that I love in a city that I love even more,” he said. “I’m deeply sorry, and I apologize unreservedly to the people of Toronto.”
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