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55-603: In 2011 the YouthLine, in conjunction with Toronto City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam , created an award, named in memory of Toronto artist Will Munro , to honour LGBT youth involved in community arts projects in Ontario. In January 2021, YouthLine denounced the Toronto Catholic District School Board 's decision to suddenly remove the service from their online mental health resource list for students. The removal

110-441: A candidate in the next regular election, so that the appointed councillor does not gain an unfair incumbency advantage. Council cannot impose this restriction on appointees but nonetheless it usually factors into the debate. There have been instances in which appointed councillors have done so; most notably, Paul Ainslie did so in 2006 by running for re-election in a different ward than the one where he had been appointed, and after

165-703: A community council. Community councils report to City Council but they also have final decision-making power on certain items, such as front yard parking and appointments to local boards and Business Improvement Areas. The city is divided into four community councils. Their meeting locations are as follows: The current council term began on November 15, 2022. Chair, Toronto & East York Community Council Mayor's Small Business Champion Mayor's Economic Development & Culture Champion Chair, City-School Boards Advisory Committee Chair, Scarborough Community Council Mayor's Night Economy Champion Chair, Infrastructure & Environment Committee Vacancies in

220-468: A councillor's seat may be filled in one of two ways, either by the holding of a by-election or through direct appointment of an interim councillor chosen by the council in an internal vote. Normally the council is allowed to decide which process to follow in each individual case; however, if the vacancy occurs after March 31 in the year of a regularly scheduled municipal election, then the vacancy must be filled by direct appointment as provincial law prohibits

275-514: A few words. He ruled against the government when they moved that the legislature did not need to vote on each amendment, but in their favor when they suggested that the identical text did not need to be read aloud each time. In the provincial election of 1999 , Stockwell's personal popularity was such that he was able to win an easy re-election in the redistributed riding of Etobicoke Centre after defeating fellow MPP Doug Ford, Sr. for then Progressive Conservative nomination. On June 17, 1999, he

330-528: A final vote. The full council can, however, reject the community council's recommendation and choose a different candidate instead; in 2013, for example, the city council passed over former member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Chris Stockwell , the recommended candidate of the Etobicoke Community Council, in favour of Peter Leon . Usually, although there is no legal barrier to doing so, candidates for appointment are asked if they intend to run as

385-483: Is not barred from running in the next regular municipal election. In the event of a vacancy in the mayor's office, the deputy mayor is immediately elevated to acting mayor on an interim basis until the permanent new mayor is selected in a by-election. Unlike a city council seat, however, a by-election must always be held, unless the vacancy occurs less than 90 days before a regular municipal election. The situation does not trigger additional council vacancies, however;

440-513: Is the governing body of the municipal government of Toronto , Ontario. Meeting at Toronto City Hall , it comprises 25 city councillors and the mayor of Toronto . The current term began on November 15, 2022. The current decision-making framework and committee structure at the City of Toronto was established by the City of Toronto Act, 2006 and came into force January 1, 2007. The decision-making process at

495-399: Is to set the City of Toronto's priorities, manage financial planning and budgeting, labour relations, human resources, and the operation of City Council. The committee existed in the old City of Toronto beginning in 1969. Before that Toronto had a Board of Control , as did former cities North York and Etobicoke . The executive committee makes recommendations to city council on: Following

550-489: The 2003 election . He was later employed as a political consultant. In 2013, Stockwell was one of several candidates for appointment to Toronto City Council to replace Doug Holyday in Ward 3. The Etobicoke Community Council recommended him to the city council as its preferred candidate for the appointment; however, October 10, 2013, the final city council vote selected Peter Leon . In September 2014, Stockwell registered as

605-517: The High Park area, then resold them to a developer. Grys then helped get rezoning for the area to allow developers to increase the number of units they could build, without disclosing his interest. Alderman John Sewell learned of the Grys purchases through a resident of the area. Grys launched a lawsuit against Sewell but it was dropped. Grys was defeated in 1972, the same election that Reformer David Crombie

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660-466: The 1950s and 1960s as the Anglo Tory lock on power faded in the increasingly diverse city. In 1952, Orangeman Allan Lamport became the first Liberal elected mayor in over 40 years. He resigned to become TTC chair and his administration was implicated in a municipal corruption scandal. In 1954, Leslie Saunders , another Orangeman became interim mayor. His staunch defence of Protestantism became an issue in

715-471: The 1954 election. Nathan Phillips , a long-serving Jewish alderman, was elected mayor. He was a staunch Tory. His religion was an important issue in the election, in which his opponent proclaimed himself to be running as " Leslie Saunders , Protestant". The Orange Order influence dropped sharply. Only seven of 23 councillors elected that year were members of the Orange Order. Phillips was dubbed "Mayor of all

770-831: The Act)." On June 9, 2003, he stated: "I am pleased to report that all expense claims made for the period January 1st to March 31st met with the requirements of the Act and the Rules Governing the Expenses of Cabinet Ministers, Opposition Leaders and other persons." On June 3, 2004, covering the period April 3, 2003 to March 31, 2004, the Commissioner again stated: "I am pleased to report that all requests for reimbursements were complied with and all expense claims reviewed were subsequently approved." On July 25, 2003, Stockwell announced that he would not run in

825-428: The City of Toronto involves committees that report to City Council. Committees propose, review and debate policies and recommendations before their arrival at City Council for debate. Citizens and residents can only make deputations on policy at committees, citizens cannot make public presentations to City Council. The mayor is a member of all committees and is entitled to one vote. There are three types of committees at

880-416: The City of Toronto: the executive committee, four other standing committees, and special committees of council. The executive committee is an advisory body chaired by the mayor. The executive committee is composed of the mayor, deputy mayor, and the chairs of the four standing committees who are appointed by the mayor and three "at-large" members appointed by City Council. The role of the executive committee

935-489: The Clerk's office: City clerk staff are seated in the diamond shaped table located in front of the speaker's podium in the council chambers. City Council has a sergeant-at-arms , who is present at each council and committee meeting as per Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 27-50 to ensure order and safety of all members. In 2014 a second post was created to have two sergeants-at-arms present during council meetings. They are posted on

990-551: The Labour portfolio, Stockwell also served as Commissioner of the Board of Internal Economy for a few months in 2001. Stockwell was a candidate to succeed Mike Harris in the 2002 PC leadership campaign . During this campaign, he claimed that the right-wing initiatives of Harris's " Common Sense Revolution " were necessary in 1995, but no longer made sense in 2003. He won little support from party insiders, and placed last with four per cent of

1045-412: The Orange Order to be a Toronto mayor. In the late 1960s and 1970s, a new division arose on city council between two groups that became known as the "Reformers" and the "Old Guard". Both groups crossed party lines and were divided by their approach to urban issues. The Reform faction arose in opposition to the urban renewal schemes that had been in favour in the previous decades. Two key battles were over

1100-503: The People" and governed in a non-partisan manner. During his term, Phillips enraged the Order by accepting funding from O'Keefe Brewing for the new O'Keefe Centre auditorium. In 1956, Phillips initiated the international architectural competition for a new City Hall. In 1966, former CCF Member of Provincial Parliament William Dennison was elected mayor. He was an Orangeman and the last member of

1155-402: The appointment process is seen as less expensive for the city to undertake. When the appointment process is followed, people who are interested in the appointment are asked to submit their names to the local community council for the area where the vacant seat is located; the community council then evaluates and interviews the applicants, and submits a recommendation to the full city council for

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1210-461: The beginning of the Cold War and staunch opposition from the other political groups, the communist presence quickly disappeared. The last communist alderman lost his seat in 1950. The first part of the 20th century was the era of the newspaper slates . Each of the daily newspapers would endorse a full slate of candidates for office. The two most influential were the right-wing Toronto Telegram and

1265-472: The city approved a re-organization to Council changing the number of wards to six; each ward was known by a number. Each ward elected four aldermen. Over the next three decades three new wards were added, one each in the north, east, and west, as new areas were annexed to the City of Toronto. In 1896, the Board of Control executive branch of Council was established to handle all daily council business and report to Council. Mayor Robert John Fleming presided over

1320-428: The city the other for Metro. In the next election, a separate set of wards was established for Metro councillors. Each Metro ward consisted of two city wards, each electing only one councillor. With the amalgamation of the City of Toronto with the suburban municipalities of Metro in 1997, the councils of the six former cities were abolished. The new council for the "megacity" kept the ward map of Metro Toronto but doubled

1375-399: The city, and its members had considerably more power than the city councillors. In 1969, the Board of Control was abolished and the four controllers were replaced by four new councillors from two new wards. The ward map was rebalanced to give more equitable representation. In 1985, the system of electing Metro councillors was changed so that two separate ballots were held in each ward, one for

1430-416: The council. Beyond these few exceptions, the slates of all the papers were largely made up of male, white, Conservative, Orangemen. Many candidates also appeared on the slates of several newspapers. With the exception of James Simpson , who became Toronto's first socialist mayor in 1935, the city's mayors were Tories in the first half of the 20th century. The character of Toronto politics began to change in

1485-478: The deputy mayor is not deemed to have vacated their council seat during the acting period, and a sitting councillor who runs in the mayoral by-election does not have to resign their council seat unless they win the election. Three vacancies occurred during the 2010-14 council term. Doug Holyday resigned from council in 2013 after winning election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a byelection, and

1540-497: The downtown areas covered by Ward 4 and Ward 5, especially in the heavily Jewish areas of Kensington Market and the Garment District around Spadina Avenue and further west along College and up to Christie Pits including what is now Little Italy . The peak of communist influence was in the 1946 election when leader Stewart Smith was elected to the Board of Control and three other communists won seats on city council. With

1595-453: The election, and Stockwell sat on the opposition benches for the next five years. The Tories won a majority in the provincial election of 1995 , and Stockwell was easily elected in his own riding. Despite his experience, he was not appointed to cabinet by the new Premier , Mike Harris . He soon developed a reputation as one of the more prominent Red Tories in the Tory caucus. Stockwell

1650-416: The federal ridings (electoral districts) that covered Toronto. Each riding was split in half to create a 44-ward system. The current ward names are based on the federal and provincial electoral districts, but some no longer shared the same name as those district names have changed since 2000. When the City of Toronto was incorporated in 1834, a city council was created. It provided direct representation in

1705-426: The first Board of Control. Eventually, the numbers of aldermen was reduced to two aldermen per ward as the number of wards was increased. When a higher level of municipal government, Metro Toronto , was introduced in 1953, the alderman with the most votes of the two elected councillors from each ward was also a member of Metro Council. Until 1955 municipal elections were held annually, either on New Year's Day or on

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1760-451: The first Monday in December. In 1955 council moved to two-year terms, and in 1982 three-year terms were introduced. Along with the other municipalities of Ontario, Toronto moved to a four-year municipal term in 2006. Starting in 1904 the Board of Control was elected directly. Until 1969 there was a four-person Board of Control in addition to city council. The board was elected at large across

1815-754: The floor or near the entrances beside the speaker's desk. Toronto was divided into a group of wards, each named after a Christian saint. In 1834, the city had five wards and the number of wards would expand to nine by 1891. While out of use for over a century, these ward names continue to appear in neighbourhood names and subway stations and, until the 1990s, provincial electoral districts. The old wards and their boundaries in their final form, used from 1871 to 1891, were: By 1891, there were 13 wards, with three aldermen elected per ward: St. Alban's, St. Andrew's, St. David's, St. George's, St. James's, St. John's, St. Lawrence's, St. Mark's, St. Matthew's, St. Patrick's, St. Paul's, St. Stephen's, and St. Thomas's. When Yorkville

1870-537: The government of Toronto to the population. The Town of York had been governed by the then-province of Upper Canada , with electoral representation in the Upper Canada assembly. The first councils were elected yearly. Each of the five wards elected two aldermen and two common councillors by the votes of male householders. The first councils were dominated by two factions: the Family Compact and its loyalists; and

1925-423: The holding of a by-election in the final six months of a council term. Vacancies in the office of mayor must be filled by by-election unless the vacancy occurs after March 31 in an election year, in which case council appoints. There is no appointment option for mayoral vacancies before that time. The process often results in public debate, however. The by-election process is widely seen as more democratic, while

1980-481: The legislature and cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves . Before entering provincial politics, he had been a member of Etobicoke City Council and the Metro Toronto Council . Stockwell's father, Bill Stockwell, was also a prominent municipal politician. Stockwell was elected as a city of Etobicoke Controller in 1982, was defeated in his attempt at re-election in 1985, but

2035-463: The more left-leaning Toronto Daily Star . In the early parts of the century, the duelling papers ran the communications portion of the campaign of the candidates they supported, using yellow journalism to extol those they supported and denigrate those they opposed. The newspaper slates did not have a unified ideology: all the papers claimed to be seeking a balanced council, making sure that groups such as labour and Roman Catholics had representation on

2090-605: The next century, the Tories dominated Toronto municipal politics, as they did the other levels in "Tory Toronto". The Tories were associated with staunch Protestantism, shown through membership in the Orange Order , and support for the Lord's Day Act . In the 1930s, various forms of left-wing opposition arose to the Tory-dominated council. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)

2145-413: The number of councillors by adopting the system of electing two councillors from each ward. East York had only one ward and was thus greatly underrepresented. Former East York mayor Michael Prue lobbied successfully for a third councillor to be elected from that ward, and this was implemented mid-term. This system was only used for the first megacity election. In 2000 a new ward map was devised based on

2200-519: The proposal for the Spadina Expressway and the replacement of the Trefann Court neighbourhood with a housing project. The Reformers opposed the destruction of existing neighbourhoods and followed the urban theories of recent Toronto arrival Jane Jacobs . The Old Guard supported new highways and housing projects, in part because of their close ties to the development industry. The debate between

2255-507: The provincial Integrity Commissioner who at that time was the Honourable Coulter A. Osbourne, a former Ontario Supreme Court judge. He undertook an exhaustive review. In his first report dated January 31, 2003, covering the period from June 26, 1995, to December 31, 2002, the Honourable Coulter A. Osbourne concluded: "I am satisfied that the expenses which I have reviewed, net of reimbursements made, are allowable expenses (see section 15 of

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2310-507: The reformers under the leadership of William Lyon Mackenzie , Member of Parliament for York. Mackenzie won election to Council and was elected by Council as the city's first mayor, but was defeated in the next election, after proposing increased taxation. After the defeat of the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837, the reformers were marginalized, as several were executed for treason, and others, such as Mackenzie, went into exile. For

2365-482: The salary of the mayor and city councillors and is annually adjusted to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). In 2022, the salary of a councillor is $ 120,502.20 and the salary of the mayor is $ 202,948.20. The city clerk is the senior administrative officer of the municipal government of Toronto . The city clerk is charged with building public trust and confidence in the city government. There are five divisions in

2420-441: The sudden decision by the provincial government to reduce the size of City Council in summer 2018, the committee structure went under review. Before December 1, 2018, there were eleven other committees that reported to Toronto City Council. As of the 2022-2026 term, the four standing policy committees are: There are five other committees that report to Council: Source: City of Toronto All members of Toronto City Council serve on

2475-557: The two groups became the central issue of the 1969 municipal election with mayoral candidate Margaret Campbell running on an explicit reform platform. Campbell lost the mayoralty, but on City Council, six veteran members of the Old Guard were defeated. One example of the close ties was revealed in 1971; a conflict of interest case of alderman Ben Grys, who chaired the Buildings and Development Committee. His wife Gladys, bought properties in

2530-452: The vote. He supported Ernie Eves , the winning candidate, on the second ballot. On April 15, 2002, Eves appointed Stockwell as Government House Leader and Minister of Environment and Energy . The Energy and Environment portfolios were broken up on August 22, 2002, with Stockwell keeping Environment . On June 17, 2003, he resigned from cabinet in the wake of a controversy concerning the misuse of expenses. All expenses were referred to

2585-415: The ward boundaries were adjusted in 2018, former ward 28 councillor Lucy Troisi ran in the new ward 13 against the former ward 27's elected incumbent Kristyn Wong-Tam . Peter Leon considered registering as a candidate in the 2014 election following his appointment as an interim councillor in 2013, but ultimately did not do so. If a full byelection is pursued, however, then the winner of that by-election

2640-544: Was annexed in 1883, it became St. Paul's Ward (named for Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul). When Riverdale was annexed in 1884, it became St. Matthew's Ward (named for Matthew the Apostle or Saint Matthew). Brockton was also annexed in 1884, and it became the ward of St. Mark's (named for Mark the Evangelist or Saint Mark). When Parkdale was annexed in 1889, it became St. Alban's Ward (named for Saint Alban ). In June 1891,

2695-477: Was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Labour . Despite Stockwell's reputation as a Red Tory , he implemented a number of right-wing policy directives as Labour Minister. He was largely credited with shepherding through the legislature a bill to increase the maximum work-week to 60 hours, and also promoted the Harris government's "Workplace Democracy Act", which made union organization more difficult. In addition to

2750-611: Was called "homophobic, transphobic, and racist." According to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice , Joseph Volpe , a former Liberal MP, published articles under his Italian-Canadian newspaper company, Corriere, with a number of homophobic comments and he called for the removal of the YouthLine's services. In May 2022, YouthLine and the other defendants won and all of Volpe's charges against them were dropped. See: TCDSB, Controversies, Elimination of LGBTQ+ Online Support Toronto City Council Toronto City Council

2805-607: Was elected Speaker of the Assembly on October 3, 1996. He was not Harris's preferred choice for the position, but won with support from members in all three parties. Stockwell won a reputation for independence in the Speaker's chair, and was not afraid to criticize members of his own party. Stockwell played a key role in the anti-megacity filibuster of 1997 , where the Opposition parties proposed thousands of amendments identical except for

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2860-446: Was elected mayor. Crombie was mayor until 1978 and during his term, the city enacted a holding by-law to curb the development industry. In 1978, Crombie was succeeded by Sewell as mayor. Chris Stockwell Chris Stockwell (March 9, 1957 – February 10, 2018) was a Canadian politician from Ontario . He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served as Speaker of

2915-771: Was elected to the Metropolitan Toronto council in November 1988 representing Lakeshore-Queensway, in the Etobicoke region, and also served as chair of the Metro O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts during this period. Stockwell was elected to the Ontario provincial legislature in the 1990 provincial election , defeating incumbent Liberal Linda LeBourdais by about 4,000 votes in Etobicoke West . The New Democratic Party won

2970-449: Was founded in 1932. The pro-labour social democratic party found support in various working-class areas of Toronto and several of its members were elected to city council. Unaffiliated anti-poverty activists like May Birchard also were elected to Council in this era. An important faction in Toronto politics in the 1930s and 1940s were the communists. There was considerable communist support in

3025-581: Was succeeded by Peter Leon. Adam Vaughan resigned from council in 2014 to contest a federal byelection for the House of Commons , and was succeeded by Ceta Ramkhalawansingh . Peter Milczyn resigned in 2014 after winning election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2014 election and was succeeded by James Maloney . Since amalgamation there are five instances that a councillor died while in office: The Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 223 sets

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