Toronto officially opened mayoral candidate nominations on April 3, and the crowded race is underway. “It’s a most interesting race because it’s quite open, and that’s very unusual,” Nelson Wiseman, political science professor at the University of Toronto, told The Epoch Times. The 77-year-old has lived in Toronto a long time and “it’s not in my…

A Chinese Toronto mayoral candidate said he’s running because he wants to “tell the China story well,” a phrase introduced by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in directing state media’s work of promoting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) messaging to the world. In a May 3 press conference, Tony Luk announced that he will be throwing his…

PITTSBURGH, PA—Pittsburgh’s mayoral election next week will be historic no matter who wins. Pennsylvania state representative Edward Gainey is the favorite to become the city’s first African-American mayor in this traditional Democrat city. However, if he is beaten, the city will have its first Mexican/Native-American mayor, Tony Moreno, who would also be the first Republican…