Former NDP MP, city councillor Olivia Chow enters crowded race to be Toronto's next mayor
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Former NDP member of Parliament and Toronto city councillor Olivia Chow says she is entering the race to be the city's next mayor.
Chow, who began her political career in the mid 1980s as a school board trustee and then went on to spend 13 years as a city councillor and eight years as an MP, made the announcement Monday.
The widow of former NDP leader Jack Layton, Chow resigned as MP for the riding of Trinity–Spadina in 2014 to run for mayor of Toronto. In that election, she placed a distant third behind runner-up and current Ontario Premier Doug Ford and winner John Tory, who went on to be elected to three terms before he resigned in February after admitting to an affair with a staffer.
The following year Chow tried to retake her seat on Parliament Hill during the 2015 federal election but lost to her Liberal opponent Adam Vaughan.
Chow is the latest contender to enter a crowded field that already includes some well-known candidates, including councillors Josh Matlow and Brad Bradford, former councillor Ana Bailão and former police chief Mark Saunders.
The first two weeks of the campaign centred largely around the issues of public safety, housing and the controversial redevelopment of Ontario Place.
With her candidacy official, there are now 47 people registered to be on the ballot. The byelection is scheduled for June 26.
A full list of candidates can be found here.
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