{"id":4220,"date":"2014-03-13T06:58:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T13:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2014-03-13T06:58:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T13:58:59","slug":"olivia-chow-set-to-kick-off-toronto-mayoralty-bid-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/13\/olivia-chow-set-to-kick-off-toronto-mayoralty-bid-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Chow set to kick off Toronto mayoralty bid today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4221\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3417493956_e428a50f69_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4221\" alt=\"Photo by Tania Liu \/ Flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3417493956_e428a50f69_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3417493956_e428a50f69_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3417493956_e428a50f69_z-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Tania Liu \/ Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014A day after resigning as an NDP member of Parliament, Olivia Chow formally kicks off her campaign for Toronto\u2019s mayoralty today.<\/p>\n<p>The race to run the country\u2019s largest municipality is destined to play out well beyond the city\u2019s borders, thanks to the incumbent, the now infamous Rob Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor says he\u2019s not concerned about the new high profile candidate, saying his re-election support is strong despite the string of scandals he\u2019s faced over the past 10 months.<\/p>\n<p>Chow became an official candidate by filing her nomination papers hours after handing in her resignation to the Commons.<\/p>\n<p>The wife of the late NDP icon Jack Layton is a former city councillor who is expected to play up her immigrant roots during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Her campaign launch is set to take place in the inner city neighbourhood of St. James Town, where she grew up.<\/p>\n<p>Communications director Jamey Heath said Chow will be the only \u201cprogressive\u201d contender among the crowded field of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two candidates who can appeal to sort of blue-collar, regular voters in Toronto, one of whom is Rob Ford and one of whom is Olivia Chow,\u201d said Heath.<\/p>\n<p>Chow was a Toronto city councillor from 1991 until she was elected to the Commons in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014A day after resigning as an NDP member of Parliament, Olivia Chow formally kicks off her campaign for Toronto\u2019s mayoralty &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}