Moments leading up to John Tory’s resignation revealed

John Tory’s hopes of remaining mayor of Toronto — a job he treasured, one that finally made him a political winner — withered over the past week to a grim but undeniable conclusion: he had to quit.

It was an open secret in political circles that Tory’s marriage to Barbara Hackett was strained. People noticed she was not visible at Tory’s Oct. 24 re-election party, unlike past victory fêtes. Nor were their four adult children. In early February, the Star learned that Tory had been seeing a much younger woman who had worked in the mayor’s office. Word leaked to some other news organizations. Reporters’ feelers on the subject were reported back to team Tory.

“People have been aware of the situation for a while, but not the extent,” one longtime adviser said. “It’s safe to say many staff are disappointed and pissed off.” Tory, long under fire for retaining as mayor his seat on the Rogers family trust, with a $100,000 per year payment, now faced a potential firestorm thanks to Rogers Communications’ 37.5-per-cent stake in MLSE.

The mayor had to tell his team one key detail: did the relationship begin while the woman was working for him or, as one adviser had earlier insisted to the Star, after she had left city hall? Tory admitted he started seeing the woman while he was her boss. Tory was adamant, sources say, that the young woman not suffer publicly because of his “serious error in judgment.” Social media is not kind to young women in sex scandals.

LOL at the Star trying to hide her name when it is already out there and publicly known. It is EMILY HILLSTROM. aka Miss Sault Ste Marie 2012.

Why is no one asking why he ran for mayor again since this affair appears to have occurred during his last term.. thanks for a waste of an election.

Ford needed his developer dough scandal to be wiped off the front page.

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