LILLEY: Toronto voters had an abundance of choice beyond Olivia Chow

This being a byelection — there being unfortunately too little interest in municipal politics — voters appear set to elect Chow based on name recognition alone. She’s run a careful front-runner campaign, saying little and definitely trying to avoid controversy.

Ana Bailao told a great story of opportunity, of coming to Toronto from Portugal with her parents at 15, of learning English, getting a job to pay for university and having opportunities that she worries are slipping away for the current generation. She focused on housing and bringing that sense of opportunity back to Toronto.

columnist went from polling in single digits, or not at all, to competing with Saunders, Bailao and Matlow for the title of the candidate with the best shot at beating Chow. He’s turned ideas into excitement about his policies that he says will put families first, such as clearing tent encampments from parks and turning the city’s drug policy towards treatment instead of safe injection sites.

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