In 2021, three major Canadian cities—Edmonton, Calgary, and Montreal—elected progressive mayors. But a year later, voters in Vancouver and Ottawa rejected their more progressive front-runners. Will Canada’s other great metropolis, Toronto, go more right or left in its upcoming mayoral byelection?
“If I were a progressive candidate in Toronto, I would be worried,” Richard Johnston, political science professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, said in an interview.
