Toronto residents will elect a new mayor today, four months after former leader John Tory admitted to having an affair with a staffer and stepped down from the city's top job.
Voters heading to the polls will face a crowded ballot with a record 102 candidates to pick from. Here is a look at seven candidates who have emerged as the top contenders ahead of byelection day:Chow has maintained a steady, commanding lead in the polls for most of the campaign, and her front-runner status has made her a target for most other leading candidates in the race.
Her current campaign is leading with a pledge to get the city back into social housing development and an annual $100 million investment in a program to purchase affordable homes and transfer them to non-profits and land trusts. She also wants to expand rent supplements to 1,000 homes and boost the number of 24/7 respite homeless shelters - promises funded by an expanded land transfer tax on homes purchased for $3 million and above.
Her critics, however, label her as a maintainer of a broken status quo as Toronto grows increasingly unaffordable and record numbers of people go unhoused. In 2015, he was appointed police chief, becoming the first Black person to head Canada's largest municipal task force. She has served as minister of education, minister of advance education and skills development and associate minister of finance.
Bradford, who has a background in urban planning, was elected to represent Beaches-East York in 2018. Former mayor Tory later assigned Bradford some plum roles, including naming him to executive council.
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