The Ford factor: Of course there's gossip about a designated Ford family member, because this is Toronto and the Ford farm system produces winners. We're keeping an eye on Bradford, an affable east-end Torontonian with cross-partisan appeal, including Tory allies in a left-of-center part of town. The Star's EDWARD KEENAN poured cold water all over many of those prospective candidacies. Plucked from their reporting, and scuttlebutt in our texts and DMs, in alphabetical order:įormer city councilor ANA BAILÃO, city councilor BRAD BRADFORD, 2022 third-place finisher CHLOE BROWN, Ontario Cabmin STAN CHO, former city councilor JOSH COLLE, Liberal MP MICHAEL COTEAU, Liberal MPP MITZIE HUNTER, Housing Minister AHMED HUSSEN, former city councilor MIKE LAYTON, Liberal MP JAMES MALONEY, former city councilor and MPP GIORGIO MAMMOLITI, city councilor JOSH MATLOW, and former Toronto police chief MARK SAUNDERS. The Star's ALYSHAH HASHAM and BEN SPURR, and the Sun's BRIAN LILLEY, started working their sources.
The jury's still out on a long list of maybes. When Cressy left office in 2022 for a job at George Brown College, he wanted to spend more time with his family. Who's out: Former city councilor JOE CRESSY, a progressive darling known for leaving ideology at the door, isn't taking the plunge. Who's in: 2022 runner-up GIL PENALOSA, an urbanist who managed 17.85 percent of the vote when Tory was easily reelected, tossed his hat in the ring over the weekend. The weekend's question: Who isn't thinking about running? Tory announced his intention to resign Friday, and the two defining words of the week around Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square are "orderly transition." As soon as there's a vacancy in the mayor's chair, the city has 60 days to announce a by-election date. Three days after the Toronto Star first published the stunning revelations that Tory carried on a relationship with a staffer for much of the pandemic, the mayor still technically has his job. THIRSTY TIMES - Toronto Mayor JOHN TORY hasn't yet formally resigned, but already the eventual race to replace him at city hall is crammed with potential high-profile candidates. Also, we talk LNG with a potential exporter. Plus, NORAD identified (and eliminated) a flying object over Canada. Today, we explore the bonanza of names rumored to be mulling an unexpected run for mayor of Canada's biggest city.
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