John Howard Tory is a Canadian former politician who served as the 65th mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2023. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2005 to 2007 while he was leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party from 2004 to 2009.
Timothy John Murphy is a former Canadian politician and was the chief of staff of the Prime Minister's Office under Paul Martin's government. He is currently CEO of McMillan LLP.
Sarmite Drosma "Sam" Bulte,is a Canadian lawyer,advocate and politician. A member of the Liberal Party,she represented the Toronto riding of Parkdale-High Park in the House of Commons of Canada through three successive parliaments from June 2,1997 to January 22,2006. Bulte was the first Canadian of Latvian heritage to take a seat in Parliament.
Julian Fantino,,is a Canadian retired police official and former politician. He was the Conservative Party of Canada Member of the Parliament of Canada for the riding of Vaughan following a November 29,2010 by-election,until his defeat in 2015. On January 4,2011,Fantino was named Minister of State for Seniors;on May 18,2011,he became Associate Minister of National Defence;on July 4,2012,he was named Minister for International Cooperation. Fantino served as the Minister of Veterans Affairs from 2013 until 2015,when he was demoted to his earlier post of Associate Minister of National Defence following sustained criticism of his performance at Veterans Affairs. He was defeated by Liberal candidate Francesco Sorbara in the 2015 election.
Kathleen O'Day Wynne is a Canadian former politician who served as the 25th premier of Ontario and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. She was member of provincial parliament (MPP) for Don Valley West from 2003 to 2022. Wynne is the first female premier of Ontario and the first openly gay premier in Canada.
Shelley Carroll is a Canadian politician who is the Chair of Toronto's Economic and Community Development Committee since November 16,2022. Carroll has represented Ward 17 - Don Valley North on Toronto City Council since 2018. She previously sat as the City Councillor for Ward 33 - Don Valley East from 2003 to 2018. In 2006,Carroll was elected by her peers to serve as Chair of Toronto's Budget Committee where she delivered four balanced budgets in the thick of the global financial crisis,making Toronto financially sustainable for the first time since amalgamation.
Denzil Minnan-Wong is a former Canadian politician who was the deputy mayor of Toronto from 2014 to 2022. Minnan-Wong served on Toronto City Council from 1995 to 2022,representing a succession of wards in the Don Mills.
Don Valley North is a federal electoral district in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997 and since 2015. Don Valley North covers the area of the City of Toronto bounded by Steeles Avenue East to the north,Highway 401 to the south,Bayview Avenue to the west,and Victoria Park Avenue to the east.
William Sterling Blair is a Canadian politician and former police officer who has served as President of the Privy Council and Minister of Emergency Preparedness since October 26,2021. A member of the Liberal Party,Blair represents Scarborough Southwest in the House of Commons. Blair previously held the portfolios of Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. Before entering politics,Blair worked for three decades with the Toronto Police Service (TPS),serving as the chief of police from 2005 until retiring in 2015.
Robert Oliphant is a Canadian politician and a United Church minister. He served in the House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Don Valley West from 2008 to 2011. He returned to office after re-election in 2015 and subsequently in 2019.
Michael Joseph Coteau is a Canadian politician who serves as the Member of Parliament for Don Valley East in the House of Commons of Canada. From 2011 to 2021,he was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the provincial district of Don Valley East in Toronto. He served in the Cabinet of Ontario under Premier Kathleen Wynne from 2013 to 2018 in several portfolios,including Citizenship and Immigration,Tourism,Culture and Sport and Community and Social Services. After the 2018 Ontario general election,Coteau was one of seven Liberals re-elected,and he subsequently ran in the 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election,placing second with 16.9% of the vote.
The 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election concluded on March 7,2020,resulting in the election of Steven Del Duca,a former cabinet minister in the government of Kathleen Wynne,as Ontario Liberal Party’s 33rd leader.
Mark Saunders is a Canadian politician and retired police officer who served as chief of police with the Toronto Police Service (TPS) from 2015 to 2020. Saunders was the Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate in Don Valley West in the 2022 Ontario election.
Yvonne Saunders-Mondesire is a Canadian former track and field athlete. A versatile athlete,she competed in women's pentathlon,long jump,high jump,400 metres and 800 metres. She competed internationally for Canada,Jamaica,and England during her career.
Don Valley North is a provincial electoral district in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
The 2023 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election will be held following the resignation of Steven Del Duca on June 2,2022 after the party won only 8 seats and failed again to gain official party status in the general election. The date of the leadership vote has been set for December 2,2023.
The Pussy Palace Raid occurred on September 14,2000,when Toronto police raided a lesbian bathhouse known as the "Pussy Palace" during the "2000 Pussies" event. Two undercover female police officers attended and investigated the event prior to the raid. Five plainclothes male police officers then entered and searched the club,including private rooms. There were around 350 women in attendance at the time,many of whom were nude or semi-clad.
The death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet,a 29-year-old Indigenous-Ukrainian-Black Canadian woman,occurred in Toronto,Ontario,Canada on May 27,2020. Responding to multiple 911 calls from Korchinski-Paquet,her mother,and her brother,for a domestic disturbance involving punches,thrown bottles,and knives,police attended her apartment. Subsequent to the arrival of police,Korchinski-Paquet fell to the ground 24 stories below,and died at the scene. Her family accused the Toronto Police Service of having played a role in her death,which led to a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigation. The SIU announced in late August 2020 it had cleared all police officers of wrongdoing and found no evidence of police involvement in her death.
The 2022 Toronto municipal election was held on October 24,2022,to elect the mayor and 25 city councillors in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. In addition,school trustees were elected to the Toronto District School Board,Toronto Catholic District School Board,Conseil scolaire Viamonde and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir. The election was held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario.
Adil Shamji is a Canadian physician and politician who has represented Don Valley East in the Ontario Legislative Assembly since 2022,as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party. Before entering politics,Shamji was an emergency physician at Michael Garron Hospital. He was born in Canada to Gujarati immigrant parents from East Africa.
