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![]() ![]() “I called up a guy called Marshall Ganz,” she told me. But in the aftermath of 2014, what Chow decided she wanted to do was to double-down on political organizing. There are comfy perches at universities to be had, and Chow took one of those at Ryerson (now Toronto Metropolitan University) as a visiting professor. They join law firms, latch onto foundations, are given fancy titles at important-sounding institutions. When powerful, connected people find themselves on the job market, opportunities present themselves. What politicians do at the moment they are no longer politicians is telling. By the time it was all over, as the former NDP MP delivered a defiantly optimistic concession speech invoking her late husband Jack Layton’s call for hope over fear, she had finished a distant, disastrous third. The lasting image of the campaign was of a diminutive Chow being shouted over by two large men in navy suits. John Tory brought a big map of his dubious transit plan across the city, along with a convincing pitch that he was the sensible, obvious anti-Ford candidate. ![]() Doug Ford joined the race in place of his brother. But after months as the frontrunner, warning off other potential candidates from the left, her poll numbers plummeted. In 2014, at the tail end of the extended Rob Ford fever dream-the crack tape and “more than enough to eat at home,” stripping him of his powers and the sudden cancer diagnosis-Chow had positioned herself as the sensible, obvious, inevitable person to replace him. The last time Olivia Chow ran for mayor, it ended badly.
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