Three more candidates have joined the already crowded race to become Toronto’s next mayor: city councillor Josh Matlow, former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders, and journalist Anthony Furey.
The three candidates announced their intentions to run for mayor of Toronto within hours of each other on March 21. The mayoral byelection, slated for June 26, is subject to the Toronto city council’s approval to be decided at its meeting next week.
On Feb. 10, Toronto Mayor John Tory announced he would step down after admitting to a relationship with a former staffer that he said did “not meet the standards to which I hold myself as mayor and as a family man.” Tory, who was first elected in 2014 and won re-election twice, officially left office on Feb. 17….