Hazel McCallion, who led one of Canada’s largest cities into her 90s, died Sunday morning, leaving behind a legacy of feisty advocacy and more than three decades of nearly unchallenged leadership.
Known affectionately as “Hurricane Hazel,” the longtime mayor of Mississauga, Ont., may have been diminutive, but was an outspoken political powerhouse.
Word of McCallion’s death came in a Sunday morning statement from Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who said she died peacefully at her home in Mississauga earlier in the day at the age of 101.
Ford said McCallion, who he called a “dear friend and mentor,” was the definition of a public servant, having led the transformation of the city west of Toronto into a major urban centre….