Chow’s ascension to one of the most important posts in Canadian politics is an extraordinary moment in an extraordinary Canadian life
In the summer of 1970, a spirited girl from Hong Kong got off a plane in Toronto. Her parents had decided that their future in the British colony, then being roiled by China’s Cultural Revolution, was too uncertain.
Embittered, often afflicted by paranoia, he beat the girl’s mother. The girl was forced to intervene physically to try to stop him. She buckled down at school and earned a spot at the University of Toronto. She volunteered as a crisis counsellor at a hospital emergency department. She endured then escaped a relationship with an abusive boyfriend.
Olivia Chow supporters cheer as they watch polls report during a municipal election night event in Toronto on June 26.Whether she will be an extraordinary mayor of course remains to be seen. She has spent her political life in opposition, so her skill as an elected executive is untested. She comes to office with a narrow mandate, barely outpolling rival Ana Bailão in an election-night squeaker. She has been a divisive love-her-or-loathe-her figure in Toronto politics.
She saw her parents separate. She saw her father assigned to a psychiatric ward. She survived thyroid cancer. She contracted a nerve disorder that hampered her ability to smile.
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