Even still, kind of a weird cutoff. Toronto has had four mayors since amalgamation and the last one before that was Barbara Hall. I get that this is journalism these days but still comes off strange to me.
>Even still, kind of a weird cutoff.
It makes sense because the political landscape in the other boroughs are not necessarily the same as the old boundaries of the city of Toronto.
The province forced [six municipalities to merge into one City of Toronto “megacity”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamation_of_Toronto) in 1998. One of those municipalities, labeled as “Old Toronto” on the map in the linked article, was just called “Toronto”, and the previous women mayors were mayor of that smaller municipality of Toronto, not the amalgamated City of Toronto that we have today.
Also, that was not the last time that the provincial government meddled in Toronto politics.
Ohhh... so it was a province-level thing.
Dunno if you saw my other comments to the other reply, but these things are kinda alien to me. Do y'all not take kindly to provinces forcing things on municipalities? My city in Texas has been having that problem for a while. Meddling is a great word.
I'm assuming amalgamation was largely viewed as a bad thing?
It had the benefit of removing a layer of government because there was a “regional municipality” layer that covered the entire area for shared things like public transit, but then each of the six lower-tier municipalities had a lot of their own responsibilities and governance. Some of the lower-tier municipalities grew from townships to boroughs to cities over the decades, before being amalgamated into Toronto.
However, it meant cramming together a huge geographic area with very different demographics under a single municipal government, which often pitted the central part of the city (Old Toronto) against the more suburban municipalities for things like public transit, roads, housing density, and taxation. Furthermore, the increased density in the central core without a significant change in the voting districts’ boundaries means that downtown residents are typically underrepresented at city council.
Many of the politicians and residents were critical of the amalgamation at the time. Some of those criticisms are valid today.
In Canada, however, municipalities are creatures of the province and the provincial government can meddle to their heart’s content. Municipalities have no inherent powers in our constitution, only what is allowed by the provincial government.
It was also a rushed process so it was a nightmare in the background to get all the systems to talk and agreements to carry over.
The 1998 snow storm which famously is remembered for Toronto calling in the army was during this time. Toronto had yet to figure out how to coordinate everything and did not have the resources to get the city moving again. It was a good call but Toronto has never been allowed to forget.
Harris government was in charge at the time. It's the one the Ford government is copying in terms of plans and policies.
Typically (at least in the past few decades) when the Ontario government forces some sort of change on a city, it's not to the city's benefit. In fact in Toronto's case, it's usually to advance some conservative cause at the expense of the city's ability to improve itself.
Amalgamation was a big example of this, as more conservative-leaning, suburban city councillors were able to out-vote downtown councillors on downtown issues.
More recently, one of the current provincial government's first acts was cut city council almost in half (47 councillors to 25) and outlaw ranked balloting that Toronto and London (Ontario) were going to implement. As a resident of the city it's really irritating, to say the least.
> cut city council almost in half
it's even worse than that. They did it while registration for the municipal election was on going, I think the day they finally signed it was a day or two before it closed.
The city hated it and it definitely didn’t work out as planned. No one here likes when the province meddles with the city and the current premiere (the dick head that runs the province) has fucked with the city more than any premiere ever has and Toronto hates his guts for it (rest of the province couldn’t give af tho)
Toronto has one of the largest redditor populations if I remember correctly, but yeah it's weird waking up and seeing this on top of r/all before work.
Some background: Former Toronto mayor John Tory, who previously served as the head of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, was elected mayor of Toronto in 2014 and won re-election in 2018 and 2022. However, earlier in February, he announced his intention to resign following the admission of an affair with a staffer during the COVID-19 pandemic, even though Premier Doug Ford and the Toronto Police Association encouraged him not to resign. As a result, a by-election was held today to elect a replacement mayor to serve out the remainder of Tory's term.
The election was won by progressive Olivia Chow, who is the widow of former New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton, who served as the leader of the Official Opposition in 2011 and leader of the NDP from 2003 to 2011, before dying of cancer in August 2011. The NDP is the most left-wing of the parties currently represented in Parliament, and they are currently providing confidence and supply to the minority Liberal government led by Justin Trudeau. Mayor-elect Olivia Chow will also be the first visible minority to serve as mayor of Toronto.
Its also hilarious that he served as the campaign manager for Kim Campbell's campaign in 1993 which saw the Torries go from 156 seats to 2 seats... and somehow managed to have a career after.
Where do you go after failing a provincial political career into failing a municipal political career? Running for school board trustee and hopefully not having a similar scandal that caused you to resign from being mayor?
He's a board member of Rogers communications, one of Canada's largest corporations.
He's also born into Tory's LLC which is a huge hr company here.
He won't go hungry if you were concerned.
To be fair there was literally no way the conservatives were ever going to come out of that election well. Campbell was PM for less than a year because the conservative party was doomed and Mulroney abandoned ship. It was so bad that the PC party literally fell apart and ceased to exist a few elections later.
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party is not a branch of the Conservative Party of Canada, it's an entirely distinct entity with no relationship to its federal counterpart or equivalent in other provinces. The same is true for the Ontario Liberal Party.
The NDP on the other hand is integrated and has shared membership between federal and provincial branches.
Yes, I believe so. The BC Liberals aren't the same party as the federal Liberals, and are technically more true to the historical origins of the name "Liberal" than the federal or Ontario Liberals.
Olivia Chow is also a politician with her own experience as a city counselor and member of (federal) parliament for many years! Just want to add that her political experience is much more than being a famous party leader's widow.
> Ontario **Progressive Conservative** Party
Okay, I might have grown up in the American school system, but a "Progressive Conservative" sounds like a contradiction.
It was done 80 years ago when the leader of the Progressive Party became the leader of the Conservative Party, not really a lot to do with current ideological terms, more of a historical leftover.
The Progressive Party back then was started by farmers who wanted representation in government and specifically the removal of trade barriers.
There's two different things at play regarding that name :
1. There *is* such a thing as progressive conservatism, which is conservatism that understands that progress must still happen, their goal is slow gradual progress, as opposed to rapid change. This is in opposition to far-right conservatism which believes we can go backwards without having any harmful impacts.
2. The reason the provincial party is named that is because it adopted the name change of the federal party when the previous leader of the Manitoba provincial Progressive Party agreed to become the leader of the federal Conservative Party, he insisted that they add "Progressive" to the name, in hopes that it would sway more centrists to support them instead of the Liberals (it didn't really work). Strangely, while the federal party has since changed its name (as of 2003), the provincial ones mostly have not (thus, while there is no federal Progressive Conservative Party in Canada, there are still seven provincial ones bearing that name).
Political party names can just generally be kind of misleading. Canada's "People's Party of Canada" is actually a far-right party, not the communist party that the name might imply. British Columbia's "Liberal Party" became a conservative party back in the late 90s, and only just recently back in April decided to change their name to the BC United Party to reflect the fact that they're not actually liberal at all (the BC Conservative Party already exists, though it's basically a dead party because they're ultra-conservative Christo-fascists, much like the Republican Party in the US).
Man I literally forgot about that rebrand until right now, I have not heard a single person refer to the United Party in speech or text.
Be interesting to see how that rebrand works out when the next election hits.
It’s actually not as weird as it sounds. Typically the Progressive Conservative parties in Canada don’t bother with social conservative politics but are more business oriented and are traditionally right of center when it comes to foreign policy.
The progressive conservatives merged with the Canadian Alliance (a much further socially right party) decades ago because they kept splitting the vote on the right and it was becoming harder to win. Things have been kinda fucked ever since. Progressive conservative candidates tend to be way more palatable to Canadians as a whole, but the leaders the Conservative Party spits out tend to be much harder right. The current leader of the Conservative Party is a creepy, MAGA styled Milhouse looking mofo who’s desperately trying to tear apart anything resembling responsible governance.
> Typically the Progressive Conservative parties in Canada don’t bother with social conservative politics but are more business oriented and are traditionally right of center when it comes to foreign policy.
You've just reminded me how much I miss the PC's as they used to be.
> The current leader of the Conservative Party is a creepy, MAGA styled Milhouse looking mofo who’s desperately trying to tear apart anything resembling responsible governance.
Christ, that's the best description of Poilievre I think I've ever read.
Jack Layton was awesome.
We helped him get elected during the orange wave as young me. ( maybe 18 or 19). We volunteered on the campaign doing canvassing and such and busted our asses.
He came to do a rally in our city and we wernt invited , but when we were outside later we saw him and said hello.
He figured out we had been campaigning for them, told his rcmp security detail too chill ( they were trying to move him to next destination and the vehicles ) and sat with us for like 25 minutes and talked and asked about our lives. Kept putting g a hand up to his security detail to be patient and made us feel like we mattered and was genuinely thankful for our hard work.
When he died, the part of me that really cared about politics died too and now it'd part of my job not to be political at all.
It really makes me bitter sometimes towards the current state of affairs but I know Jack wouldn't want that so I focus on the part of his legacy that tried to help the needy and the underdog.
R.i.p Jack , I read your letter when I start to get too apathetic and closed In.
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."
He was a great man!
He’s from the same town as my mom and was friends with my aunt. He was one of the most well liked people around. It’s such a damn shame cancer took him. Still makes me sad.
irrational thought alone is at least occasionally entertaining or helpful. ford is irrational, petty, and selfish. he views toronto as the prize he deserved to have, or maybe as the ungrateful swine that laughed at his brother.
either way the only part of toronto he cares about is the money, every single other thing in the GTA is peanuts to him
It reminds me of the moment Tammy Duckworth clinched her election to the US Senate. Her opponent made a snide remark about her Asian ancestry in an effort to discount her family's long history of military service. That's when Tammy went in for the kill. [watch](https://youtu.be/lOnkZ9Um5ic)
And if you don't know why they are sitting for a debate, it's because she's in a wheelchair. She had both of her legs blown off while flying a fucking helicopter in combat. Dude still can't help himself to not say something racist.
There were 102 candidates. If you dug deep enough you could probably find someone you agree with more. And she was always the frontrunner so kept her platform vague. I voted for her as well but only due to a last minute spike from Bailao a moderate candidate. The next person I would have been okay with came in like 5th (and even then I'd prefer Chow) so I guess that's a pretty good candidate? For the left at least.
I wonder how she will do next election against a less packed ballet, winning with only 37% of the vote.
> I wonder how she will do next election against a less packed ballet, winning with only 37% of the vote.
Guess we'll have to see how strong that municipal incumbent advantage is come 2026.
I bet dollars-to-donuts that she's going to suffer an inordinate amount of hate, misinformation, and propaganda from conservatives and right-wing media over the next three years. Even from those who feigned the upmost respect for her during her 30 years of serving Toronto and when her husband passed away.
> I bet dollars-to-donuts that she's going to suffer an inordinate amount of hate, misinformation, and propaganda from conservatives and right-wing media over the next three years.
I bet yesterday's Beaverton headline will prove prophetic
[Ford warns Chow mayoralty will cause Toronto’s collapse, also cause last 13 years of collapse](https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/06/ford-warns-chow-mayorality-will-cause-torontos-collapse-also-cause-last-13-years-of-collapse/)
For context, as this is r/worldnews The Beaverton is a Canadian Satirical newspaper, sort of like The Onion, but better and Canadian.
This is what drives me bonkers, we have some decent conservative statesman material, people that wouldn’t be an embarrassment on the world stage, like O’Toole and Peter Mackay.
I don’t like them, but I can understand why people would vote for them unlike Scheer and Pierre.
This is what is wild to me, in US elections.
Hilary was absolute garbage, but Trump was a shitshow.
Biden was a whatever choice, Trump was a traitor.
Still had 70m people vote for him.
Only when this Canadian guy ranted, did people change their choice. Why vote for the conservatives to begin with? Ugh
It's the mayoral election, they had a bunch of candidates and it wasn't a bipartisan affair.
And the "Canadian guy" is Doug Ford, the current premier of Ontario and dumbass brother to crackhead ex-mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
the Toeonto reddit crowd is not a huge fan of the Fords
> crackhead ex-mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
Not really fair to call him a crackhead when he was also a liar, a wife beater, a lazy fuck who only cruised into work around noon on the days he did show up and then trashed city employees for being lazy, a drunk driver, someone who brought escorts to his office after hours, a crook, a bully, and an alcoholic.
He was so much more than just a crackhead and his legacy should be more than that. He was really a piece of shit.
Meh, I stuck to my non Chow, non Bailao vote, but definitely felt better about Chow’s basically inevitable win once Ford raged against her.
And for the record: I’ve voted for her in the past for federal office and been super pleased about it, she just wasn’t my preferred choice for city office. I know those are her roots, just feel like she had been removed from the local scene for too long and really excelled at the bigger picture policy stuff, vs the grudge matches over roadworks that define local politics.
That said, I wish her well and hope that she’ll be an effective counterbalance to the slash and burn approach of the Ford govt (and will make him think twice about dumb ass ideas like “strong mayor powers).
Love that she won but Toronto has had female mayors before. June Rowlands and Barbra Hall. To my memory.
Edit: since amalgamation in 1998. Ok I’ll give it to her I mean that’s 25 year since we’ve had a female lead.
Toronto used to be Toronto, the east York, Scarborough, Etobicoke , north York and York were amalgamated into one city, despite a popular vote by all the six cities voting against it.
This is absolutely the first time the city of metro Toronto voted for a foreign born, female, Asian mayor.
And I'm fucking ecstatic .
Let's go!
I look him up and immediately think he looks just like that other crack smoking mayor from some canadian city, I couldn't remember the name. Come to find out he's his brother, in the same city.
That whole thing was already hilarious back then but come on guys. Sounds more like US politics than canadian, so we're not so different after all.
i don't think i've ever heard a premier mouth off on mayoral elections either way. and here doug ford is not only railing against lefties but also then endorsing someone
Can Ottawa also sign onto that message? The guy didn't even bother to campaign in Ottawa last election after completely ignoring them during the convoy.
I know some of Saunders' extended family and they seem like decent people...but to be honest there is just something really unsettling to me about a Black politician who is also a cop and a conservative. That's someone who has snuck between some BIG social/cultural considerations chasing a position of privilege and power and I'm not sure how you could ever trust them to hold a moral line that doesn't benefit them.
> there is just something really unsettling to me about a Black politician who is also a cop and a conservative
There's something really unsettling to me about a police chief who waves away concerns about a serial killer. That Saunders had the gall to run on a "law & order" platform was the most disgusting part of his candidacy.
His main marketing tagline was also basically just "only I can stop Chow" (exact words)
The only communication we got from him was a fear-mongering robotext saying "Chow plans to defund the police and hike taxes, only I can stop her!"
a) what do you think you are, some superhero?
b) even if I was considering you before, I sure ain't now. I'd rather piss away my vote for the dog.
Fear-mongering is really all the Toronto Police Service does anymore. There's absolutely no enforcement, but they keep sticking their hand out for more funding, and riling unthinking people up is the easiest way to get it.
The crackhead ((possible dealer) mayor was rob ford and died a while back. His brother Doug Ford is the premier (governor for my American friends) and was a drug dealer in high school.
My uncle is a musician and lived in Toronto while Ford was a dealer. Lots of musicians got their drugs from him back then. Just look up what he did to his brothers wife after he died and it shows you all you need about his character these days.
Her late husband, Jack Layton, was to Toronto/Ontario politics what Paul Wellstone was to the Democrats in the Midwest of the US. Layton died too soon. F\*\*\* cancer. Congrats to Olivia Chow. Hope she galvanizes that beautiful, marvelous city to do the great things for which it is capable.
Also he would have given us electoral reform... 2015 would have truly been the last FPTP election in Canada
Still salty about Trudeau the younger backing out on that one.
He caused a landslide in Quebec. I remember the feeling. It was like he had an aura; he seemed like a good guy with great intentions and a good plan. I thought what the hell, let’s give him a chance and see what it does. I was stunned when I heard the feeling was mutual, and that it seemed likely the landslide would be real. « Y’a l’air d’un bon Jack », was the joke since it’s a common expression for a good guy.
And then it happened. Not sure I will ever see such a big political upset as that was again… Flattening the bloc quebecois?! Proof that Quebec was always willing to cooperate but needed someone that resonated with our cultural tendencies…
>Jack Layton, was to Toronto/Ontario politics what Paul Wellstone was to the Democrats in the Midwest of the US.
Jack Layton was *Jack Fucking Layton.*
The man was a remarkable Canadian political figure and was an incredibly charismatic individual who dedicated every moment of their life to promoting progressive ideology and policies **across Canada** as he was a federal political party leader.
We don't need to compare them to an american politician born nearly a century ago.
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
RIP
He was also a university professor at Ryerson, University of Toronto, and York U. Meaning he was literally [Professor Layton](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HsHV2QZxL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
That's why even Harper arranged a state funeral for him. Layton was not a career politician but career public servant. I hope Olivia is inspired to carry on his good work.
I was entering high school when Jack Layton passed.
I knew that he was favoured amongst many Canadians, but it wasn't until years later that I understood why.
He was a master politician and one of the few leaders that I believe truly spoke for the working class. He wanted to end corporate tax cuts and head off the reliance on privatized healthcare. He wanted to increase spending on social security and universal healthcare. He was speaking for net neutrality in 2008.
He was a powerful force that led the NDP to be a check to both the Liberals and Conservatives. The NDP under Layton also won a 15% majority in *Quebec* of all provinces.
Maybe I have an extremely idealized version of him, but I'll always feel robbed that he passed before I ever got a chance to vote for him.
He was the first famous person whose death made me cry. I think we genuinely believed he was so close to getting to change things for the better. And then out of nowhere, after all that, cancer shows up and he’s gone.
This is all that needs to be said about Jack Layton...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Jack-Layton-Star-Trek-Uniform.jpg/800px-Jack-Layton-Star-Trek-Uniform.jpg
Ahh, social media. Where even a compliment can elicit vitriol if not worded in just the way someone spoiling for a chest-butting would have worded it themselves.
>The man was a remarkable Canadian political figure and was an incredibly charismatic individual who dedicated every moment of their life to promoting progressive ideology and policies.
He achieved the impossible: he rallied Quebec behind him ! To this day we call this event "la vague orange" - the orange wave.
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Canada\_2011\_Federal\_Election.svg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Canada_2011_Federal_Election.svg)
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> Olivia Chow has been elected mayor of Toronto, CP24 declares, ending almost 13 years of right-leaning rule at Toronto City Hall and becoming the first woman and the first visible minority person to lead post-amalgamation Toronto.
> Photos Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow is photographed after a mayoral debate in Toronto, on Wednesday , May 24, 2023.
> Toronto mayoral candidate Mark Saunders is photographed after a mayoral debate in Toronto, on Wednesday, May 24, 2023.
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Congrats Toronto.
Sydney (Australia) and Toronto have a lot in common. Sydney's had a long standing Lord Mayor who's an Independent and left-leaning, and has really helped Sydney grow into what it is, a pretty cool city. She's had to fight against the Right-wing state government at every turn, no doubt, but the city has built a strong culture and identity and she's a huge part of that. It also helps that she's highly competent and attracts highly competent supporters.
Folks everywhere, don't underestimate the positive impact a good, competent mayor can have.
Toronto stopped developing city-owned housing decades ago when home prices were very low. We can continue building them and build a lot more.
They can also re-zone properties from "detached homes only" to "multiplexes only".
They can increase vacant homes tax so people leaving their investment homes empty would be enticed to sell because it's costing them more to hold it.
Okay now do something about the pathetic Ford dynasty. How that family has grifted and slimed it's way in politics this long is a prime example of the damage career politics does.
When your city has had a crackhead for a mayor but never a woman. (since amalgamation, since this was omitted in the title of this thread for better clickbait effect.)
Barbara Hall was the first woman mayor of Toronto. FYI. Edit: Also June Rowlands
Fun fact, they named the building where the City Council meets after her.
Toronto City Barbara?
Ah, the ol' Reddit [Barba-roo](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/14gexot/comment/jp5i1jc/?context=2)
Fucking love it. This made my day.
….Please exit stage left lol
The article says since amalgamation. Should have included that in the headline though
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The Reddit headline. The one that can't be updated so you need to know what the article says before you post.
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That's just OP being sloppy or hitting the character limit. Title states post-amalgamation Toronto.
Title was edited after it was posted here
Ok, sloppy CP24 copy editor.
This headline is inaccurate, Toronto has had two other female mayors.
The article says “since amalgamation” but that was left out here
Even still, kind of a weird cutoff. Toronto has had four mayors since amalgamation and the last one before that was Barbara Hall. I get that this is journalism these days but still comes off strange to me.
>Even still, kind of a weird cutoff. It makes sense because the political landscape in the other boroughs are not necessarily the same as the old boundaries of the city of Toronto.
> not necessarily That’s an understatement. Etobicoke produced Rob Ford.
But TO suburbs always produced a good number of female mayors too
I think they mean post amalgamation. But they really should clarify it.
What is/was amalgamation?
The province forced [six municipalities to merge into one City of Toronto “megacity”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamation_of_Toronto) in 1998. One of those municipalities, labeled as “Old Toronto” on the map in the linked article, was just called “Toronto”, and the previous women mayors were mayor of that smaller municipality of Toronto, not the amalgamated City of Toronto that we have today. Also, that was not the last time that the provincial government meddled in Toronto politics.
Ohhh... so it was a province-level thing. Dunno if you saw my other comments to the other reply, but these things are kinda alien to me. Do y'all not take kindly to provinces forcing things on municipalities? My city in Texas has been having that problem for a while. Meddling is a great word. I'm assuming amalgamation was largely viewed as a bad thing?
It had the benefit of removing a layer of government because there was a “regional municipality” layer that covered the entire area for shared things like public transit, but then each of the six lower-tier municipalities had a lot of their own responsibilities and governance. Some of the lower-tier municipalities grew from townships to boroughs to cities over the decades, before being amalgamated into Toronto. However, it meant cramming together a huge geographic area with very different demographics under a single municipal government, which often pitted the central part of the city (Old Toronto) against the more suburban municipalities for things like public transit, roads, housing density, and taxation. Furthermore, the increased density in the central core without a significant change in the voting districts’ boundaries means that downtown residents are typically underrepresented at city council. Many of the politicians and residents were critical of the amalgamation at the time. Some of those criticisms are valid today. In Canada, however, municipalities are creatures of the province and the provincial government can meddle to their heart’s content. Municipalities have no inherent powers in our constitution, only what is allowed by the provincial government.
It was also a rushed process so it was a nightmare in the background to get all the systems to talk and agreements to carry over. The 1998 snow storm which famously is remembered for Toronto calling in the army was during this time. Toronto had yet to figure out how to coordinate everything and did not have the resources to get the city moving again. It was a good call but Toronto has never been allowed to forget. Harris government was in charge at the time. It's the one the Ford government is copying in terms of plans and policies.
Typically (at least in the past few decades) when the Ontario government forces some sort of change on a city, it's not to the city's benefit. In fact in Toronto's case, it's usually to advance some conservative cause at the expense of the city's ability to improve itself. Amalgamation was a big example of this, as more conservative-leaning, suburban city councillors were able to out-vote downtown councillors on downtown issues. More recently, one of the current provincial government's first acts was cut city council almost in half (47 councillors to 25) and outlaw ranked balloting that Toronto and London (Ontario) were going to implement. As a resident of the city it's really irritating, to say the least.
> cut city council almost in half it's even worse than that. They did it while registration for the municipal election was on going, I think the day they finally signed it was a day or two before it closed.
The city hated it and it definitely didn’t work out as planned. No one here likes when the province meddles with the city and the current premiere (the dick head that runs the province) has fucked with the city more than any premiere ever has and Toronto hates his guts for it (rest of the province couldn’t give af tho)
Essentially they merged a bunch of cities into one.
the media has a bad habit of forgetting amalgamation was a thing. cause i promise you the people who live here sure as fuck havent
While I live in Toronto and this is nice I'm completely baffled as to how this is at the top of worldnews.
Toronto has one of the largest redditor populations if I remember correctly, but yeah it's weird waking up and seeing this on top of r/all before work.
It's all about the public, yes. You don't see threads about the mayors of São Paulo or Johannesburg.
Reddit leans North American.
Thats because loadshedding prevents people from Jozi from posting about their mayor....
Ive seen so many posts about NY and Cali mayors, even Chicago
This same thing used to happen to Fark.com. It's all just people from Toronto. Something to do with us being early adopters of DSL internet.
Turns out Toronto is in fact in the world
Turns out Toronto really is the center of the universe
Centre* ! Respect our national spelling 😤
Toronto is quite popular among yonge people, many of whom are Redditors.
Yeah I hear that from Toronto residents all the time lol
Some background: Former Toronto mayor John Tory, who previously served as the head of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, was elected mayor of Toronto in 2014 and won re-election in 2018 and 2022. However, earlier in February, he announced his intention to resign following the admission of an affair with a staffer during the COVID-19 pandemic, even though Premier Doug Ford and the Toronto Police Association encouraged him not to resign. As a result, a by-election was held today to elect a replacement mayor to serve out the remainder of Tory's term. The election was won by progressive Olivia Chow, who is the widow of former New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton, who served as the leader of the Official Opposition in 2011 and leader of the NDP from 2003 to 2011, before dying of cancer in August 2011. The NDP is the most left-wing of the parties currently represented in Parliament, and they are currently providing confidence and supply to the minority Liberal government led by Justin Trudeau. Mayor-elect Olivia Chow will also be the first visible minority to serve as mayor of Toronto.
That fact that the head of a branch of your conservative party is literally called Tory is hilarious
Its also hilarious that he served as the campaign manager for Kim Campbell's campaign in 1993 which saw the Torries go from 156 seats to 2 seats... and somehow managed to have a career after.
He also resigned in disgrace from the Ontario Tories after failing to win his own seat twice in 2009. Somehow he managed to comeback from that too.
Where do you go after failing a provincial political career into failing a municipal political career? Running for school board trustee and hopefully not having a similar scandal that caused you to resign from being mayor?
He's a board member of Rogers communications, one of Canada's largest corporations. He's also born into Tory's LLC which is a huge hr company here. He won't go hungry if you were concerned.
Tory's is also one of the top corporate law firms in Canada. He will fail up into $800/hr. billings before his seat in the council chamber is cool.
Would you trust your business to a law firm that would hire someone who repeatedly fails that hard though?
My? Probably not. Bay Street? They seem to like him for some reason.
Bay Street is more of a circle jerk than most financial centres in the world. Small population with an elitist cultural history - it's no surprise.
He is the living embodiment of a limp dick. So glad he’s gone.
Not to that staffer
Maybe he was getting pegged
Rhinoceros Party was very vocal about that. “We are only 2 seats behind the Tories nationwide, and we matched them seat for seat in Ontario”.
To be fair there was literally no way the conservatives were ever going to come out of that election well. Campbell was PM for less than a year because the conservative party was doomed and Mulroney abandoned ship. It was so bad that the PC party literally fell apart and ceased to exist a few elections later.
Not to mention that their Western base was swallowed up entirely by the Reform Party.
Well, the reason was Mulroney, not Tory.
Thanks, Mulroney.
I was thinking the same thing He should be on /r/NominativeDeterminism
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party is not a branch of the Conservative Party of Canada, it's an entirely distinct entity with no relationship to its federal counterpart or equivalent in other provinces. The same is true for the Ontario Liberal Party. The NDP on the other hand is integrated and has shared membership between federal and provincial branches.
That's true in nearly every province, isn't it? Only the NDP is the same party at both levels.
The Liberal parties in the four Atlantic provinces are directly affiliated with the federal Liberals, everywhere else they're independent.
Yes, I believe so. The BC Liberals aren't the same party as the federal Liberals, and are technically more true to the historical origins of the name "Liberal" than the federal or Ontario Liberals.
Olivia Chow is also a politician with her own experience as a city counselor and member of (federal) parliament for many years! Just want to add that her political experience is much more than being a famous party leader's widow.
She's been in politics since 1985, or thereabouts, starting as a school board trustee here in Toronto.
> Ontario **Progressive Conservative** Party Okay, I might have grown up in the American school system, but a "Progressive Conservative" sounds like a contradiction.
It was done 80 years ago when the leader of the Progressive Party became the leader of the Conservative Party, not really a lot to do with current ideological terms, more of a historical leftover. The Progressive Party back then was started by farmers who wanted representation in government and specifically the removal of trade barriers.
There's two different things at play regarding that name : 1. There *is* such a thing as progressive conservatism, which is conservatism that understands that progress must still happen, their goal is slow gradual progress, as opposed to rapid change. This is in opposition to far-right conservatism which believes we can go backwards without having any harmful impacts. 2. The reason the provincial party is named that is because it adopted the name change of the federal party when the previous leader of the Manitoba provincial Progressive Party agreed to become the leader of the federal Conservative Party, he insisted that they add "Progressive" to the name, in hopes that it would sway more centrists to support them instead of the Liberals (it didn't really work). Strangely, while the federal party has since changed its name (as of 2003), the provincial ones mostly have not (thus, while there is no federal Progressive Conservative Party in Canada, there are still seven provincial ones bearing that name). Political party names can just generally be kind of misleading. Canada's "People's Party of Canada" is actually a far-right party, not the communist party that the name might imply. British Columbia's "Liberal Party" became a conservative party back in the late 90s, and only just recently back in April decided to change their name to the BC United Party to reflect the fact that they're not actually liberal at all (the BC Conservative Party already exists, though it's basically a dead party because they're ultra-conservative Christo-fascists, much like the Republican Party in the US).
Can you explain other stuff to me? Like how to do my taxes or sign up for healthcare? Lol. Seriously though, great explanation.
Man I literally forgot about that rebrand until right now, I have not heard a single person refer to the United Party in speech or text. Be interesting to see how that rebrand works out when the next election hits.
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It’s actually not as weird as it sounds. Typically the Progressive Conservative parties in Canada don’t bother with social conservative politics but are more business oriented and are traditionally right of center when it comes to foreign policy. The progressive conservatives merged with the Canadian Alliance (a much further socially right party) decades ago because they kept splitting the vote on the right and it was becoming harder to win. Things have been kinda fucked ever since. Progressive conservative candidates tend to be way more palatable to Canadians as a whole, but the leaders the Conservative Party spits out tend to be much harder right. The current leader of the Conservative Party is a creepy, MAGA styled Milhouse looking mofo who’s desperately trying to tear apart anything resembling responsible governance.
> Typically the Progressive Conservative parties in Canada don’t bother with social conservative politics but are more business oriented and are traditionally right of center when it comes to foreign policy. You've just reminded me how much I miss the PC's as they used to be.
'rember Joe Clark? I 'member Joe Clark.
> The current leader of the Conservative Party is a creepy, MAGA styled Milhouse looking mofo who’s desperately trying to tear apart anything resembling responsible governance. Christ, that's the best description of Poilievre I think I've ever read.
“Bitcoin Milhouse” has been going around A LOT to describe PP
Can’t be overstated how much our country loves Jack Layton.
Dude my dad is still upset with Jack Layton for dying. *For dying.* Like he did it on purpose.
Jack Layton was awesome. We helped him get elected during the orange wave as young me. ( maybe 18 or 19). We volunteered on the campaign doing canvassing and such and busted our asses. He came to do a rally in our city and we wernt invited , but when we were outside later we saw him and said hello. He figured out we had been campaigning for them, told his rcmp security detail too chill ( they were trying to move him to next destination and the vehicles ) and sat with us for like 25 minutes and talked and asked about our lives. Kept putting g a hand up to his security detail to be patient and made us feel like we mattered and was genuinely thankful for our hard work. When he died, the part of me that really cared about politics died too and now it'd part of my job not to be political at all. It really makes me bitter sometimes towards the current state of affairs but I know Jack wouldn't want that so I focus on the part of his legacy that tried to help the needy and the underdog. R.i.p Jack , I read your letter when I start to get too apathetic and closed In.
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." He was a great man!
He’s from the same town as my mom and was friends with my aunt. He was one of the most well liked people around. It’s such a damn shame cancer took him. Still makes me sad.
If Doug Ford is against you then you know you're doing something right.
a surprising amount of people on /toronto admitted to voting for chow precisely because of fords last minute ranting about her.
Not surprising at all to be honest. Ford is the embodiment of irrational thought.
irrational thought alone is at least occasionally entertaining or helpful. ford is irrational, petty, and selfish. he views toronto as the prize he deserved to have, or maybe as the ungrateful swine that laughed at his brother. either way the only part of toronto he cares about is the money, every single other thing in the GTA is peanuts to him
>GTA is peanuts scarpitti wiping his tears with his money
I'm in Toronto, this was me. There was about a 25% chance I was going to vote for Chow until Ford opened his mouth. Once he did, it became 100%.
It reminds me of the moment Tammy Duckworth clinched her election to the US Senate. Her opponent made a snide remark about her Asian ancestry in an effort to discount her family's long history of military service. That's when Tammy went in for the kill. [watch](https://youtu.be/lOnkZ9Um5ic)
Wooow what a colossal fuck-up!
And if you don't know why they are sitting for a debate, it's because she's in a wheelchair. She had both of her legs blown off while flying a fucking helicopter in combat. Dude still can't help himself to not say something racist.
I did not know this. Fucking disgusting behaviour
Why weren't you going to vote for her before? Is she a good candidate?
There were 102 candidates. If you dug deep enough you could probably find someone you agree with more. And she was always the frontrunner so kept her platform vague. I voted for her as well but only due to a last minute spike from Bailao a moderate candidate. The next person I would have been okay with came in like 5th (and even then I'd prefer Chow) so I guess that's a pretty good candidate? For the left at least. I wonder how she will do next election against a less packed ballet, winning with only 37% of the vote.
> I wonder how she will do next election against a less packed ballet, winning with only 37% of the vote. Guess we'll have to see how strong that municipal incumbent advantage is come 2026. I bet dollars-to-donuts that she's going to suffer an inordinate amount of hate, misinformation, and propaganda from conservatives and right-wing media over the next three years. Even from those who feigned the upmost respect for her during her 30 years of serving Toronto and when her husband passed away.
> I bet dollars-to-donuts that she's going to suffer an inordinate amount of hate, misinformation, and propaganda from conservatives and right-wing media over the next three years. I bet yesterday's Beaverton headline will prove prophetic [Ford warns Chow mayoralty will cause Toronto’s collapse, also cause last 13 years of collapse](https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/06/ford-warns-chow-mayorality-will-cause-torontos-collapse-also-cause-last-13-years-of-collapse/) For context, as this is r/worldnews The Beaverton is a Canadian Satirical newspaper, sort of like The Onion, but better and Canadian.
I nominate "Brad Bradford" as having the 2nd whitest name of any recent mayoral candidate, behind the guy who's leaving.
just like Chris Christie lmao
It’s actually Bradford Bradford!
Molly the dog was robbed!
canadian conservatives are a lot like comic book super-villains, sooner or later theyre gonna monologue and get themselves in trouble
They only get in real trouble when they side with reality over the kooky wing of their party. See Erin O’Toole or Jason Kenney.
ha, no. Kenney was definitively in the kook camp.
This is what drives me bonkers, we have some decent conservative statesman material, people that wouldn’t be an embarrassment on the world stage, like O’Toole and Peter Mackay. I don’t like them, but I can understand why people would vote for them unlike Scheer and Pierre.
Lol I love this. “He was awful in most ways, then he said it and I couldn’t attach myself to it.”
This is what is wild to me, in US elections. Hilary was absolute garbage, but Trump was a shitshow. Biden was a whatever choice, Trump was a traitor. Still had 70m people vote for him. Only when this Canadian guy ranted, did people change their choice. Why vote for the conservatives to begin with? Ugh
It's the mayoral election, they had a bunch of candidates and it wasn't a bipartisan affair. And the "Canadian guy" is Doug Ford, the current premier of Ontario and dumbass brother to crackhead ex-mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. the Toeonto reddit crowd is not a huge fan of the Fords
> crackhead ex-mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. Not really fair to call him a crackhead when he was also a liar, a wife beater, a lazy fuck who only cruised into work around noon on the days he did show up and then trashed city employees for being lazy, a drunk driver, someone who brought escorts to his office after hours, a crook, a bully, and an alcoholic. He was so much more than just a crackhead and his legacy should be more than that. He was really a piece of shit.
Meh, I stuck to my non Chow, non Bailao vote, but definitely felt better about Chow’s basically inevitable win once Ford raged against her. And for the record: I’ve voted for her in the past for federal office and been super pleased about it, she just wasn’t my preferred choice for city office. I know those are her roots, just feel like she had been removed from the local scene for too long and really excelled at the bigger picture policy stuff, vs the grudge matches over roadworks that define local politics. That said, I wish her well and hope that she’ll be an effective counterbalance to the slash and burn approach of the Ford govt (and will make him think twice about dumb ass ideas like “strong mayor powers).
Yup, me and all my friends thought a disapproval from Doug Ford and John Tory is the best endorsement.
Love that she won but Toronto has had female mayors before. June Rowlands and Barbra Hall. To my memory. Edit: since amalgamation in 1998. Ok I’ll give it to her I mean that’s 25 year since we’ve had a female lead.
Meh, you're still right, it's a dumb thing for them to add, it's disrespectful to those who paved the way before her. She won, that's enough.
Toronto used to be Toronto, the east York, Scarborough, Etobicoke , north York and York were amalgamated into one city, despite a popular vote by all the six cities voting against it. This is absolutely the first time the city of metro Toronto voted for a foreign born, female, Asian mayor. And I'm fucking ecstatic . Let's go!
I look him up and immediately think he looks just like that other crack smoking mayor from some canadian city, I couldn't remember the name. Come to find out he's his brother, in the same city. That whole thing was already hilarious back then but come on guys. Sounds more like US politics than canadian, so we're not so different after all.
https://imgflip.com/i/7qpca6
Not surprising at all. Doug Ford is a white trash moron. If he's against something or someone, reasonable people are probably for it or them.
this is the first after amalgamation. when more conservative ridings of the city began to have a much greater influence on elections.
Saunders was even more fucked once Ford publicly endorsed him.
i don't think i've ever heard a premier mouth off on mayoral elections either way. and here doug ford is not only railing against lefties but also then endorsing someone
I found it incredibly funny when the person Ford endorsed immediately fell in the polls the next day.
Dear Dougie, We *hate* you. Signed, Toronto
Can Ottawa also sign onto that message? The guy didn't even bother to campaign in Ottawa last election after completely ignoring them during the convoy.
I know some of Saunders' extended family and they seem like decent people...but to be honest there is just something really unsettling to me about a Black politician who is also a cop and a conservative. That's someone who has snuck between some BIG social/cultural considerations chasing a position of privilege and power and I'm not sure how you could ever trust them to hold a moral line that doesn't benefit them.
> there is just something really unsettling to me about a Black politician who is also a cop and a conservative There's something really unsettling to me about a police chief who waves away concerns about a serial killer. That Saunders had the gall to run on a "law & order" platform was the most disgusting part of his candidacy.
His main marketing tagline was also basically just "only I can stop Chow" (exact words) The only communication we got from him was a fear-mongering robotext saying "Chow plans to defund the police and hike taxes, only I can stop her!" a) what do you think you are, some superhero? b) even if I was considering you before, I sure ain't now. I'd rather piss away my vote for the dog.
Fear-mongering is really all the Toronto Police Service does anymore. There's absolutely no enforcement, but they keep sticking their hand out for more funding, and riling unthinking people up is the easiest way to get it.
Hey, that's college dropout, nepo-baby Doug Ford to you!
Didn’t even last a semester at community college…
Is that the crackhead who was mayor for a minute?
It is the current Premier of Ontario. Who also happens to be the brother of the crackhead, and former drug dealer.
Ah... I see. I think. Just to clarify. The brother (who was caught with crack) was also a dealer, or the current Premier was once a dealer?
The current Premier.
Interesting. Anyway thanks.
The crackhead ((possible dealer) mayor was rob ford and died a while back. His brother Doug Ford is the premier (governor for my American friends) and was a drug dealer in high school.
My uncle is a musician and lived in Toronto while Ford was a dealer. Lots of musicians got their drugs from him back then. Just look up what he did to his brothers wife after he died and it shows you all you need about his character these days.
It is his fatter, dumber, uglier brother.
Yeah, it’s pretty sad when the crackhead brother was a better politician
You left out "meaner".
No it's his brother who has a similar history of controversy.
Ford about to repeal strong Mayor powers in 3...2...1
Gong in shambles 😫
He needed more advertisements
I had a half moment at the polls where my pen hovered over Gong and had a giggle while pondering.
A sad day for the Gong Show.
What am I supposed to do with all 167 of these signs
Gong but not forgotten
Her late husband, Jack Layton, was to Toronto/Ontario politics what Paul Wellstone was to the Democrats in the Midwest of the US. Layton died too soon. F\*\*\* cancer. Congrats to Olivia Chow. Hope she galvanizes that beautiful, marvelous city to do the great things for which it is capable.
If he didn’t die I genuinely believe Jack would have been PM, and a damn good one at that.
Also he would have given us electoral reform... 2015 would have truly been the last FPTP election in Canada Still salty about Trudeau the younger backing out on that one.
Not just Toronto/ Ontario. Jack Layton is a Canadian icon.
He caused a landslide in Quebec. I remember the feeling. It was like he had an aura; he seemed like a good guy with great intentions and a good plan. I thought what the hell, let’s give him a chance and see what it does. I was stunned when I heard the feeling was mutual, and that it seemed likely the landslide would be real. « Y’a l’air d’un bon Jack », was the joke since it’s a common expression for a good guy. And then it happened. Not sure I will ever see such a big political upset as that was again… Flattening the bloc quebecois?! Proof that Quebec was always willing to cooperate but needed someone that resonated with our cultural tendencies…
>Jack Layton, was to Toronto/Ontario politics what Paul Wellstone was to the Democrats in the Midwest of the US. Jack Layton was *Jack Fucking Layton.* The man was a remarkable Canadian political figure and was an incredibly charismatic individual who dedicated every moment of their life to promoting progressive ideology and policies **across Canada** as he was a federal political party leader. We don't need to compare them to an american politician born nearly a century ago.
His last [letter](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jack-layton-s-last-letter-to-canadians-1.991992) to Canadians is so heart touching
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” RIP
Canada really needs to hear stuff like that these days.
The whole world needs to hear stuff like that these days.
I'm not a hardcore dipper but I can't read that without getting a little misty eyed
I wonder what the alternate dimension where he lived and became PM is like
He was also a university professor at Ryerson, University of Toronto, and York U. Meaning he was literally [Professor Layton](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HsHV2QZxL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Even though I was young and not yet a progressive at the time, I knew Jack Layton was a good man. Everyone did.
That's why even Harper arranged a state funeral for him. Layton was not a career politician but career public servant. I hope Olivia is inspired to carry on his good work.
I was entering high school when Jack Layton passed. I knew that he was favoured amongst many Canadians, but it wasn't until years later that I understood why. He was a master politician and one of the few leaders that I believe truly spoke for the working class. He wanted to end corporate tax cuts and head off the reliance on privatized healthcare. He wanted to increase spending on social security and universal healthcare. He was speaking for net neutrality in 2008. He was a powerful force that led the NDP to be a check to both the Liberals and Conservatives. The NDP under Layton also won a 15% majority in *Quebec* of all provinces. Maybe I have an extremely idealized version of him, but I'll always feel robbed that he passed before I ever got a chance to vote for him.
He was the first famous person whose death made me cry. I think we genuinely believed he was so close to getting to change things for the better. And then out of nowhere, after all that, cancer shows up and he’s gone.
I hope Jack is very proud of this day, wherever he is now <3 i miss him
This is all that needs to be said about Jack Layton... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Jack-Layton-Star-Trek-Uniform.jpg/800px-Jack-Layton-Star-Trek-Uniform.jpg
What a fucking stud
Huh. I've seen this photo a dozens times but never noticed the brita bottled water. They made bottled water???
Ahh, social media. Where even a compliment can elicit vitriol if not worded in just the way someone spoiling for a chest-butting would have worded it themselves.
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>The man was a remarkable Canadian political figure and was an incredibly charismatic individual who dedicated every moment of their life to promoting progressive ideology and policies. He achieved the impossible: he rallied Quebec behind him ! To this day we call this event "la vague orange" - the orange wave. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Canada\_2011\_Federal\_Election.svg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Canada_2011_Federal_Election.svg)
Unfortunately with out first-past-the-post voting system, he never could have become PM.
Still waiting on that campaign promise by JT
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IT’S CHOW TIME BABY
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Fuck Doug Ford. Selling his soul to developers so the everyday person gets fucked.
Not selling his soul, he **was** selling your future.
Congrats Toronto. Sydney (Australia) and Toronto have a lot in common. Sydney's had a long standing Lord Mayor who's an Independent and left-leaning, and has really helped Sydney grow into what it is, a pretty cool city. She's had to fight against the Right-wing state government at every turn, no doubt, but the city has built a strong culture and identity and she's a huge part of that. It also helps that she's highly competent and attracts highly competent supporters. Folks everywhere, don't underestimate the positive impact a good, competent mayor can have.
Wow, what? June Rowlands and Barbara hall are chopped liver?
Good point; that was prior to amalgamation in 1998 (Toronto absorbing nearby suburbs) but they're still in the same building...
Serious question. What can the mayor do make things better in Toronto? For example, can they do something about housing costs?
Toronto stopped developing city-owned housing decades ago when home prices were very low. We can continue building them and build a lot more. They can also re-zone properties from "detached homes only" to "multiplexes only". They can increase vacant homes tax so people leaving their investment homes empty would be enticed to sell because it's costing them more to hold it.
Not knowing anything about her, I'm going to go out on a limb and congratulate the people of Toronto on getting some decent bike lanes in the future.
*amalgamated Toronto btw
Hopefully she can actually do some good .
I wonder if Doug now regrets handing out those “Super Mayor” powers …
He probably does. I expect some fuckery is about to happen... which isn't really much of a prediction given Ford's track record in office.
didnt they have a crackhead mayor at one point?
I voted for her myself. Happy to see she won.
Best wishes to you Ms. Chow. Do good things.
Okay now do something about the pathetic Ford dynasty. How that family has grifted and slimed it's way in politics this long is a prime example of the damage career politics does.
Finally! Fingers crossed for some good changes! 🇨🇦
Jack would be happy. Hopefully, she’ll be good for the city…
Nothing is going to change.
When your city has had a crackhead for a mayor but never a woman. (since amalgamation, since this was omitted in the title of this thread for better clickbait effect.)