Olivia Chow is not the first immigrant elected Mayor of Toronto. David Miller was born in San Fransisco and raised in England before moving to Canada with his mother in 1967. This error is telling.
That White people who come to Canada from other places are somehow not considered immigrants and people who are radicalized who come to Canada from other places are immigrants.
Miller lived abroad for the first nine years of his life. Your bio line for the author boast about his knowledge about Toronto civic politics. Surely this fact should not have escaped his attention. Or is he not the expert you claim? Either way, sloppy mistake.
I am not a fan of reducing a person's entire identity to someone who is "racialized". I am an immigrant (and a so-called visible minority) myself and detest this reductive editorial label. I did not vote for her, but God only knows she is a lot more than just the "first racialized" person to become mayor. Based on the comments, it appears that initially read first immigrant mayor, so if that was changed to "racialized", that is even more unwarranted. To this day though, I have not seen a single newspaper or media column actually define what "racialized" means. It is still just used everywhere.
Quote: "Chow came through with a convincing win, finishing roughly five points and more than 34,000 votes ahead of her nearest competitor, former councillor Ana Bailão."
Not from TO, but 37% popular vote concentrated in specific parts of metro TO IS NOT a convincing win. Just the opposite, in fact. This is why we need democratic renewal and run off elections where in elections where no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote. Political leaders must reach beyond their base to govern.
Andrew did not really say anything here, or expand on the tidbit he did offer.
How many woke addled progressives can find employment in TO by being named to commissions, inquires, round tables and the like in three years?
I venture we are about to find out.
Olivia Chow is not the first immigrant elected Mayor of Toronto. David Miller was born in San Fransisco and raised in England before moving to Canada with his mother in 1967. This error is telling.
Of what?
That White people who come to Canada from other places are somehow not considered immigrants and people who are radicalized who come to Canada from other places are immigrants.
You don't think it's more telling of forgetting that Miller briefly lived abroad?
Miller lived abroad for the first nine years of his life. Your bio line for the author boast about his knowledge about Toronto civic politics. Surely this fact should not have escaped his attention. Or is he not the expert you claim? Either way, sloppy mistake.
It was a mistake, which is why we corrected it. I'm just reminded of the old saying of what a cigar usually is.
White people from abroad aren't considered immigrants in Toronto is such a weird take.
I am not a fan of reducing a person's entire identity to someone who is "racialized". I am an immigrant (and a so-called visible minority) myself and detest this reductive editorial label. I did not vote for her, but God only knows she is a lot more than just the "first racialized" person to become mayor. Based on the comments, it appears that initially read first immigrant mayor, so if that was changed to "racialized", that is even more unwarranted. To this day though, I have not seen a single newspaper or media column actually define what "racialized" means. It is still just used everywhere.
I believe it to be a euphemism for non-white. I have no idea why or how it came into such common use in the media but it is what it is.
Quote: "Chow came through with a convincing win, finishing roughly five points and more than 34,000 votes ahead of her nearest competitor, former councillor Ana Bailão."
Not from TO, but 37% popular vote concentrated in specific parts of metro TO IS NOT a convincing win. Just the opposite, in fact. This is why we need democratic renewal and run off elections where in elections where no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote. Political leaders must reach beyond their base to govern.