TORONTO - Olivia Chow, a former NDP parliamentarian and longtime standard bearer for the progressive left, was elected mayor of Toronto on Monday, promising to bring change to a city grappling with housing unaffordability, public safety concerns and a massive budget shortfall.
TORONTO Olivia Chow, a former NDP parliamentarian and longtime standard bearer for the progressive left, was elected mayor of Toronto on Monday, promising to bring change to a city grappling with housing unaffordability, public safety concerns and
Olivia Chow will become the third woman to serve as Toronto's mayor and the first racialized person to serve as mayor in the city's modern history. She's also the first progressive mayor since David Miller.
Doug Ford may have previously predicted Olivia Chow would be an "unmitigated disaster" as Toronto's next mayor, but he says today that he will find common ground and work with her.