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Former federal deputy Olivia Chow was elected mayor of Toronto, beating Portuguese-Canadian Ana Bailão in the mid-term elections on Monday night.
The new 'mayor' was elected with 37.2% of the votes, almost 265 thousand, with Bailão, former vice-president of the municipality, obtaining 32.5%, or 231,300 votes.
Born in Vila Franca de Xira (Lisbon), Ana Bailão has been in Canada since she was 15.
In third place on a list of 102 candidates was former Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders with 8.6%, or about 61,200.
According to the Toronto municipal elections office, 712,488 votes were cast.
Olivia Chow was born in the Chinese region of Hong Kong and will be the third woman (and the first non-Caucasian woman) to become Mayor of Toronto.
The new mayor faces several challenges, the main one being the lack of funds to finance various services and accessibility due to the high cost of living.
Public transport safety is another of the main issues affecting Toronto, one of the most multicultural cities in the world, with around 50% of the population born outside of Canada.
The mid-term elections were scheduled following the resignation last month of 'Mayor' John Tory, following a scandal, after the mayor confirmed that he maintained an intimate relationship with a former employee during the pandemic.
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Ana Bailão she is a social democrat, and she was the deputy mayor for former mayor John Tory. He's known for sending the police to remove homeless people and evict them off public parks, these people couldn't afford to pay 2,000 dollars a month rent on a 1 bedroom apartment, so they bought a tent and moved to a park to be evicted by the mayor. Olivia Chow she's a former socialist party member and decided to run for mayor, promising to build affordable housing on vacant municipal properties, and improve the living conditions of the poor people, raising the minimum wage from 12 dollars an hour to 15 dollars an hour. also bringing down the cost of food which is very expensive. 100, 000 people in Toronto depend on food donations from local Churches, Charity, soup kitchens, and government handouts. Toronto is shifting to the Socialist side as a last resort to survive the suffering of the poor people. Olivia Chow became their hope and a light at the end of the tunnel.
By Tony from Other on 27 Jun 2023, 12:02
Tony is totally wrong. Wrong information! Chow is a New Democratic Party member. She is very much populist! She can not bring down food prices! Give me a break! There will be more tents in the parks because her main slogan that "everybody belongs here". Beautiful! The downtown became an unsafe part of the city. That is true that she will have to solve many many problems and it will need lot of money. I guess Ana would have been a lot better choice!
By LIVIA from Other on 28 Jun 2023, 04:53
If you think the answer to homelessness is the state (or city) offering them free accommodation, you should look at San Francisco. Socialism has ruined entire neighbourhoods in LA, SF and NY.
By Alex James from Other on 28 Jun 2023, 08:50